“Our approach was not to kick people off and roll back the expansion, but to level-set on what we can do and what we can’t do.”
— Gov. Gavin Newsom, announcing plans to mitigate higher than expected costs of expanding Medi-Cal coverage for the poor to adults regardless of immigration status by charging current enrollees with “unsatisfactory immigration status” $100 premiums and freezing full-scope coverage for others not yet enrolled to close $12 billion budget deficit.
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