Wonderful news for many people who are on the Medi-Cal program.
California is very generous when qualifying low income and middle class families for Medi-Cal benefits, but there has been a nasty underbelly to this. California has an extremely aggressive and harsh estate recovery program.
As I have explained before on this blog, under current law there is a very real problem going on where impoverished people are forced to repay the government for the cost of their healthcare with their life savings after they die— often the family home.
