'It's a mystery,' says one expert. Some 2 million Californians were projected to join Medi-Cal, the state’s insurance program for low-income people.
The administration has taken few steps to help people gain coverage after massive job losses caused millions to lose their plans amid the coronavirus.The new state budget puts Medi-Cal’s overall cost at $115 billion, of which $2.4 billion in state money has been earmarked for caseload growth. Yet it’s unclear how much of that could have been available to fund other programs or stave off cuts had the caseload projection been more accurate, department officials acknowledged.
“It’s a different kind of downturn and that might explain some of the reason we’re seeing lags across the country,” Mann said. “But unless unemployment numbers turn around dramatically, which is not the prediction, I think we will see the number of uninsured people continuing to grow and turn to the program.”
And those who have lost jobs may still have work-based coverage because employers planned to rehire them and kept them on job-based insurance plans, or because they’ve signed up for COBRA insurance temporarily. When Poveda was laid off during the first round of coronavirus closures in March, the restaurant extended her health coverage for 30 days before it expired, she said. Now unemployed and uninsured, she thinks she probably qualifies for Medi-Cal but hasn’t signed up.Because Poveda is relatively healthy, she said, enrolling in coverage isn’t as urgent as some of her other needs.“Medical insurance is definitely a top priority for me,” she said, “but I also need a roof over my head.
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