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California’s Steps to Expand Health Coverage and Improve Affordability: Who Gains and Who Will Be Uninsured?
- Lucia, Laurel;
- Chen, Xiao;
- Graham-Squire, Dave;
- Yao, Hanqing;
- Rasmussen, Petra W.;
- Watson, Greg;
- Roby, Dylan H.;
- Jacobs, Ken;
- Kadiyala, Srikanth;
- Kominski, Gerald F.;
- Dietz, Miranda
Abstract
In 2019, state lawmakers took steps to protect California’s coverage gains and increase affordability of coverage by instituting a state individual mandate penalty, providing additional subsidies for Covered California’s individual market enrollees, and expanding Medi-Cal to low-income undocumented young adults. California is the first state to include undocumented adults in full Medicaid benefits and the first to provide subsidies to middle-class consumers not eligible under the ACA.