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标 题: 40万非法移民在加州享受免费医疗服务
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Nov 21 14:16:09 2014, 美东)
Executive Amnesty: 400,000 Illegal Immigrants Eligible for Free Health
Services in California
by Robert Wilde 21 Nov 2014, 9:53 AM PDT
Roughly one million undocumented immigrants in California qualify for
President Obama’s executive action of deferred deportation that he
announced on Thursday. Of those 40% will be eligible for the states free
Medi-Cal health services, while the remaining will be ineligible under the
program’s income requirements.
Medi-Cal is the state’s name for Medicaid, a federal health services
program for people who have low income. According to KQED News, the newly
protected illegal immigrants do not qualify for other benefits of the
Affordable Care Act and are not eligible for subsidies on the Covered
California exchange.
“They’ll be in the same situation as DACA,” said Gabrielle Lessard, a
health policy attorney with the Los Angeles office of the National
Immigration Law Center. Lessard was referring to a 2012 executive action by
the president known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. DACA
granted deferred deportation to children born in America from parents who
were in the country illegally.
California extends Medicaid benefits to DACA immigrants while most states do
not. Ronald Coleman, government affairs manager for the California
Immigrant Policy Center, explained to KQED in the California Report that
deferred deportation means that the immigrants are now legal in the eyes of
the law. He asserted that “California has historically covered broad
populations of immigrants who reside in the state.”
Coleman added all those that qualify for deferred deportation are “work
eligible and, as lawfully present immigrants, they will be eligible for the
state Medi-Cal program … if they are income eligible.”
A Department of Health Care Services spokesman, Tony Cava, told KQED that so
far they have not received any specifics on Obama’s latest executive
action so they are “unable to assess any impact it might have on Medi-Cal
services.”
Cava pointed out that any illegal immigrant requiring emergency health
services must be taken care of and that none of their personal information
can be used “for any type of civil immigration enforcement action under U.S
. Immigration and Customs Enforcement law.”
Nevertheless, illegal immigrants remain reluctant to enroll in health
insurance programs for fear of being deported or revealing the identity of
other illegal relatives. |
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