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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF LATINOS AT RISK AS BILL TO PROTECT MEDI-CAL COVERAGE
FOR CALIFORNIANS FAILS


THE PROPOSAL ALLOWED THOSE ENROLLED TO KEEP THEIR COVERAGE FOR 12 MONTHS

Pedro Camacho / Published May 20 2024, 6:39 PM EDT
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Millions of Californians in Jeopardy of Losing Medi-Cal Coverage Via Pexels

The Protecting Medi-Cal Coverage for Californians Act, also known as AB 2956,
has died in Assembly Appropriations. The bill sought to protect over 1.6 million
Californians who have lost their Medi-Cal coverage in the first 10 months of
this unwinding period – the overwhelming majority being people of color, about
650,000 of all disenrolled people being Latinos.

If passed, AB 2956 would've allowed adults enrolled to keep their coverage for a
full 12 months by making the federal Medi-Cal renewal flexibilities permanent.



"I am disappointed that AB 2956, a bill that would have helped many Californians
retain health coverage, did not get the necessary approval to move forward,"
said Assemblymember Tasha Boerner, who introduced the bill.

"I remain committed to ensuring that those eligible for Medi-Cal are not
routinely disenrolled due to bureaucratic red tape. It is unconscionable to
think that over a million people each year are not able to get the care that
they need due to something as simple as missing a single piece of paper."

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As of April 2023, California restarted the process of reviewing and renewing
Medi-Cal eligibility for the first time since Medi-Cal renewals were paused in
March 2020, referred to as Medi-Cal "unwinding." The overwhelming majority (80%)
of Medi-Cal disenrollments have been for procedural or 'paperwork' reasons,
meaning they have been disenrolled by no fault of their own, even when they were
likely still eligible.



Notably, California had adopted several federal flexibilities to streamline the
renewal process and reduce the number of wrongful disenrollment cases. In other
words, without these flexibilities, far more eligible Medi-Cal enrollees would
have lost their coverage. AB 2956 would've continued those flexibilities that
otherwise would expire. The federal agency has extended those flexibilities
through June 2025. But without AB 2956, it is unclear that California will
extend these flexibilities beyond December 2024.



Another consequence of the Medi-Cal crisis? Roughly 300,000 children stand to
lose their health insurance. "Losing coverage—even temporarily—delays medical
care, undermining healthy childhood development," Mayra E. Alvarez, president of
The Children's Partnership told Newsweek. "By removing enrollment barriers in
Medi-Cal, continuous coverage policies offer that stability to more than half of
California's nine million children, including millions of families of color who
disproportionately rely on Medi-Cal."



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