Posts Tagged ‘immigrant healthcare’
Some California Leaders Want Low-Cost Health Care for the Undocumented
About a million of California's poorest undocumented immigrants would have access to basic low-cost health care under a plan being pushed at the Capitol. President Barack Obama's federal health care overhaul excludes undocumented immigrants, but some California leaders want to fill that gap by offering a safety net of primary and preventive [...]
California Considers Strategies for Treating Uninsured Immigrants
California officials and health care providers are considering different strategies for treating immigrants who will remain uninsured after implementation of the federal health reform law. Under the Affordable Care Act, undocumented immigrants and lawful immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for less than five years are excluded from new [...]
