SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California is the first U.S. state to offer free health care to all low-income illegal immigrants, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a $307.9 billion budget on June 30.
The allocation will give an estimated 764,000 people free health care coverage at a cost of $2.7 billion annually beginning in 2024, under the budget’s expansion of the state’s Medi-Cal coverage.
