Tras la expansión de Medi-Cal a todos los adultos sin importar su estatus migratorio, activistas piden expandir Covered California.
Author Archives: Jasmine Aguilera
As millions are dropped from Medicaid nationwide, should California consider a pause in disenrollments?
Some health advocates are calling for the Department of Health Care Services to pause Medi-Cal disenrollments.
Advocates push bill to expand Covered California to undocumented immigrants
After Medi-Cal expanded to include all adults regardless of immigration status, advocates say the next step is expanding Covered California.
En California, la expansión de la cobertura de salud para indocumentados choca con las revisiones de Medicaid
La política para extender Medi-Cal a californianos sin residencia legal colide con un requisito federal que exige reanudar las revisiones de elegibilidad. Este proceso de redeterminación está causando que muchos latinos, que constituyen la mayoría de los beneficiarios, pierdan su cobertura.
California’s expanded health coverage for undocumented immigrants collides with Medicaid checks
A policy to extend Medi-Cal to qualified Californians without legal residency is running up against a federal requirement to resume eligibility checks. The redetermination process is causing many Latinos, who make up a majority of beneficiaries, to be disenrolled.
Young Latino immigrants join forces to demand more mental health resources
Studies suggest mental health struggles are increasing in Latino communities. These young immigrants want to help make resources more accessible and build better datasets.
Retratos de La Pulga
Fotografiamos y entrevistamos a casi 75 clientes y vendedores del Coliseum Swap Meet de Oakland, desde familias multigeneracionales hasta vendedores de artesanías mexicanas.
Portraits from La Pulga
We photographed and interviewed nearly 75 patrons and vendors at Oakland’s Coliseum Swap Meet – from multigenerational families to sellers of Mexican handicrafts.
ALERT: This is an emergency — but for English speakers only
Despite the Bay Area’s vast diversity and the frequency of natural disasters, Alameda and Solano Counties, along with other regional agencies, only send out alerts in English, leaving more than one in ten local residents at risk of missing possibly life-saving information.
California advocates continue the fight for better health data on Indigenous communities
Indigenous communities with roots in Latin America have long gone unrecognized in California government datasets. Here’s what advocates plan to do after the veto on a bill that aimed to change that.