Desde mayo de 2022, California ha inscrito en Medi-Cal a más de 300,000 inmigrantes mayores que carecen de residencia legal. Pero el estado no sabe cuántos más podrían ser elegibles. Los trabajadores comunitarios ahora los están buscando.
Author Archives: Claudia Boyd-Barret
Claudia Boyd-Barrett is a longtime journalist based in Southern California. She writes regularly about health and social inequities. Her stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Diego Union Tribune, and California Health Report, among others. Boyd-Barrett is a two-time USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism fellow and a former Inter American Press Association fellow.
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Community workers fan out to persuade immigrant seniors to get covered by Medi-Cal
California has enrolled into Medi-Cal more than 300,000 older immigrant adults lacking legal residency since May, but the state doesn’t know how many more might be eligible. Community workers are now searching for them.