Medi-Cal under threat: Who’s covered and what could be cut?

By Don Thompson | KFF Health News
Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as many people as New York and more than three times as many as Texas — the two states with the largest number of Medicaid participants after California.
Enrollment is high because California goes beyond federal eligibility requirements, opening Medi-Cal to more low-incom