Two tax incentives for undocumented families are included in the Democrats' latest budget plan in Sacramento. Also part of the proposed budget is health coverage for older immigrants regardless of immigration status.
Medi-Cal enrollees who are Spanish-speakers, Asian-American, ill and the disabled are most likely to face difficulty when searching for a doctor who will accept them as a patient, according to a recently published study.
Despite the recently launched Affordable Care Act providing limited access for undocumented immigrants to Medicaid and private health insurance companies, the federal law prohibits them from those programs.
As the enrollment for Affordable Care Act coverage nears its Monday deadline, an increase in California citizens have been in a race to get through the website's troublesome problems that have plagued it since first launching last fall.
