Immigration & Health Care As many as 830,000 non-citizen immigrants are residents of California. Nearly one in five non-citizens, under the age of 65 in California, is covered by Medi-Cal. Medi-Cal is an essential source of healthcare insurance for millions of low-income, elderly, and disabled residents of California. “Despite its anti-immigrant reputation, California has been among the most generous of the 50 states in providing public aid to needy non-citizens who lost benefits in the 1996 federal welfare overhaul.” Under …showed first 75 words of 345 total…

…showed last 75 words of 345 total…to seek medical attention and unnecessary hospitalizations. “Those hurt most by restricting prenatal care, health advocates said, would be United States born children, who are automatically citizens, regardless of their mother’s immigration status. Prenatal care is an important tool for discovering AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases.” By eliminating health care for non-citizen pregnant women, we are endangering the health and lives both the mother and the child which is indeed a United States citizen.