{"id":80472,"date":"2019-05-21T09:19:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=80472"},"modified":"2019-05-21T09:19:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:19:50","slug":"governor-newsom-promotes-health-care-proposals-for-young-adults-regardless-of-immigration-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=80472","title":{"rendered":"Governor Newsom Promotes Health Care Proposals For Young Adults Regardless of Immigration Status"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento, CA…Governor Gavin Newsom hosted a roundtable discussion at Los Angeles Southwest College with young adults to talk about their health care challenges. He spoke with an undocumented student who delayed seeking medical care for stomach pain, had his appendix removed and was unable to secure follow-up visits, making his condition worse. A young professional on her parents\u2019 health insurance discussed her fear of losing coverage once she turned 26.<\/p>\n

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The Governor\u2019s proposal would offer financial help for many young adults when they go off their parents\u2019 plan and allow full-scope Medi-Cal coverage to any qualifying young adults up to 26 years old, regardless of immigration status.<\/p>\n

\u201cYoung people feel the crunch of the cost crisis acutely \u2013 from high rents and student debt. Health care shouldn\u2019t be one more worry,\u201d said Governor Newsom. \u201cWhile the White House tries to rip out the Affordable Care Act root and stem, California is taking a fundamentally different approach. We are helping young adults when they come off their parents\u2019 plan and assisting those who may not be able to join onto a parents\u2019 insurance policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just moments after being sworn in, Governor Newsom launched a series of\u00a0first-in-the-nation actions<\/a>\u00a0to make health care more affordable for all Californians and to move the state closer toward the goal of health care for all. Those proposals included an executive order to create the nation\u2019s biggest single-purchaser system for drugs and to, ultimately, allow all Californians and private employers to sit together at the bargaining table across from big drug companies when negotiating prescription drug prices.<\/p>\n

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Governor Gavin Newsom speaks with young adults at Los Angeles Southwest College<\/p>\n

The roundtable was part of the Governor\u2019s \u201cCalifornia for All\u201d Health Care Tour. A week after he released his revised budget that advances these priorities, Governor Newsom is taking his proposals on the road as part of the statewide tour launched Tuesday in Sacramento. The Governor is traveling across the state this week hosting events that highlight how the health care initiatives in his budget proposal would help families meet their health care challenges. Each event will focus on one of the proposals in Governor Newsom\u2019s health care package and the tour features events in San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles and Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Governor Newsom\u2019s health care proposals are a central pillar of his broader \u201cCalifornia for All\u201d agenda. The Governor believes that the California Dream should be accessible to everyone \u2013 not just a privileged few, and the crushing crisis of affordability and rising cost of living are limiting families\u2019 ability to get ahead.<\/p>\n

Recent data shows that health care and prescription drugs are chief among those concerns for California families. Those buying on the individual market will see an average 9 percent rise in health care costs this year, according to\u00a0Covered California<\/a>. American families have seen their prescription drug costs nearly double since the year 2000, according to the\u00a0Kaiser Family Foundation<\/a>\u00a0and prescription drug pricing is one of the largest drivers of rising health care costs. In January, a\u00a0Reuters<\/a>\u00a0report found 30 drug manufacturers that did business with the State of California planned to raise their prices in January.<\/p>\n

Governor Newsom\u2019s health care proposals take those cost and access concerns head-on. They include:<\/p>\n