Immigrants and Health Insurance Coverage – California

For those in California illegally, health services vary greatly by county, By Soumya Karlamangla, June 11, 2015, Los Angeles Times: “Margarita Vasquez lacked health insurance and couldn’t afford an eye operation to ward off blindness. But under a Los Angeles County program that extends healthcare services to poor residents who are in the country illegally, the 64-year-old underwent surgery earlier this year and can now see clearly. ‘It saved me,’ she said. An hour’s drive to the east, in the flatlands of the Inland Empire, Sujey Becerra wasn’t as fortunate…”