BY LYNN LA
CalMatters – What-Matters
To cover a budget gap in Medi-Cal — which provides health insurance for roughly 15 million disabled and low-income Californians — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is borrowing $3.4 billion from the state’s general fund.
Republican legislators are attributing the Medi-Cal budget shortfall to the state’s expansion of the program over the years to immigrants regardless of their legal status, which began under Gov. Jerry Brown in 2016 when undocumented children were eligible to enroll in Medi-Cal.
