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State Spotlight: California’s Landmark Coverage Expansion for Immigrant Populations

State policymakers are increasingly focused on strategies to ensure access to and affordability of healthcare coverage for immigrant populations. This brief reviews California’s approach to expanding health coverage to all lower-income residents, regardless of immigration status, in an effort to help the state’s 3.2 million remaining uninsured, of which 65% are undocumented.