California becomes first state to offer health insurance to all undocumented immigrants

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California becomes first state to offer health insurance to all undocumented immigrants
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About 700,000 adults between ages 26 and 49 will be eligible as of Jan. 1

California will welcome the new year by becoming the first state to offer health insurance for all undocumented immigrants.

Starting Jan. 1, all undocumented immigrants, regardless of age, will qualify for Medi-Cal, California's version of the federal Medicaid program for people with low incomes.

Previously, undocumented immigrants were not qualified to receive comprehensive health insurance but were allowed to receive emergency and pregnancy-related services under Medi-Cal as long as they met eligibility requirements, including income limits and California residency in 2014.

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I feel like you are mad at the wrong organisation.

So you're saying that high prices of rent and health insurance are not the responsibility of the regulatory framework that was explicitly designed for profit maximization?

I don't know of a state that really regulates rent and health insurance. You'd see similar expenses in basically all expensive regions of the US.

What are building height limits if not a device to artificially reduce housing supply?

And yes it is the same everywhere in the US, that's why I left the US