Medi-Cal, California and Gavin Newsom
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KFF Health News on MSNNewsom’s Pitch as He Seeks To Pare Down Immigrant Health Care: ‘We Have To Adjust’Gavin Newsom on Wednesday proposed that California roll back health care for immigrants without legal status, saying the state needed to cut benefits for some to maintain core services across the board.
Weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy would no longer be covered by California’s health insurance for low-income people under the governor’s proposal.
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to charge monthly premiums for undocumented immigrants and stop adding new enrollees to the program as soon as January.
Gov. Newsom walks back signature program that provided medical safety net to 1.6 million undocumented immigrants.
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly wants to revise a program giving taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal migrants in a proposed state budget.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's office said his spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year will call for requiring all undocumented adults to pay $100 monthly premiums to receive coverage and for blocking all new adult applications to the program as of Jan.
In his state budget presentation later this morning, the governor will push for the new limits on the program his office estimates could save taxpayers billions.
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday outlined his administration’s latest version of the 2025-26 budget plan, better known as the May revise. He blamed President Donald Trump and called for changes to the state’s Medi-Cal program to help address the state’s roughly $12 billion estimated shortfall.
State Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson anticipates that California's sprawling Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal, may need to be dialed back after Gov. Gavin Newsom releases his latest budget, which could reflect a multibillion-dollar deficit.