November 19, 2019 -
Miranda Dietz,
Laurel Lucia,
Xiao Chen,
Dave Graham-Squire,
Hanqing Yao,
Petra W. Rasmussen,
Greg Watson,
Dylan H. Roby,
Ken Jacobs,
Srikanth Kadiyalaand
Gerald F. Kominski
California’s Steps to Expand Health Coverage and Improve Affordability: Who Gains and Who Will Be Uninsured?
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.