Los Angeles Times | "In California governor’s race, voters face stark choice on immigrant healthcare"
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. David Hayes-Bautista about California's publicly-funded Medi-Cal health insurance program.
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, about California's publicly-funded Medi-Cal health insurance program.
David Hayes-Bautista, who has spent his career studying the economic contributions of Latinos and immigrants, said Californians without legal status have higher labor force participation and tend to work in industries and occupations that don’t offer employer-based health insurance. As a result, many resort to Medi-Cal, saddling the state with the healthcare costs instead of employers.
“California, as a state, has the world’s fourth-largest GDP, which is true thanks to Latinos,” Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA, said.
