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Some Immigrants, Fearful Of Political Climate, Shy Away From Medi-Cal [KHN.org]

 

Some foreign-born Californians are canceling their Medi-Cal coverage or declining to enroll in the first place, citing fears of a Trump administration crackdown on immigrants.

Among those dropping coverage are people in the country legally but concerned about jeopardizing family members who lack permanent legal status, according to government officials, immigration attorneys and health care advocates.

Others worry they will be penalized in the future for using public benefits such as Medi-Cal, the state’s version of the federal Medicaid program that provides health coverage to low-income residents.

“We’re hearing from a lot of counties that they’re getting calls from immigrant families who are receiving benefits, or whose children are citizens and may be receiving benefits, asking to be disenrolled,” said Cathy Senderling-McDonald, deputy executive director of the County Welfare Directors Association of California in Sacramento, which represents human services directors from the state’s 58 counties.



[For more of this story, written by Emily Bazar, go to http://khn.org/news/some-immig...-away-from-medi-cal/]

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Hey samamtha....Just reading about this type of "outer enviorment" is a TRIGGER for me...its like I am still in bondage to my past that this type of enviorment has this type of POWER and CONTROL over me as it did when  my Biological family had so conditioned me and my lil brain and mind with all that hostility.

Rick

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