Among the many changes that will define Gov. Gavin Newsom’s legacy as political leader of California, one of the most enduring, if under-appreciated, is his reshaping of the judiciary.
That’s in part for obvious reasons: During a pandemic, demand for health care was especially high and many of the people who lost jobs in the first months of the public health emergency suddenly found themselves eligible for the state’s free or low-cost coverage.One of the first COVID relief bills
passed by Congress in March 2020 prohibited states from kicking people off government-sponsored health plans during a public health emergency. Now that the national public health emergency is coming to an end, California is going to restart the annual process of checking whether Medi-Cal enrollees still qualify for the program — kicking them off if they don’t.
Public health advocates are worried that as many as 2 to 3 million Medi-Cal patients are going to be caught off guard by the transition and could fall through the cracks.“It’s just unfathomable to me that the state thinks that this is all going to happen without huge confusion on the part of the people we’re trying to serve.”The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo County has been providing electricity for 38 years. Photo by Lionel Hahn, ReutersThe U.S.
under its current license past its scheduled expiration date of 2025 while the utility seeks a longer-term extension.
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