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As many as half a million undocumented immigrants who qualify for deferred deportation could become eligible to enroll in Medi-Cal if President Obama’s executive action on immigration goes into effect, according to a policy brief released Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reports. Medi-Cal is California’s Medicaid program.
The brief was released by the UC-Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Read the full news brief on the California Healthline website.
