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Medi-Cal reduces dental care for undocumented, may force more dentists to turn away low-income patients

This year is bringing substantial changes to California’s health-care program for low-income residents, particularly new limitations on Medi-Cal eligibility for enrollees with “unsatisfactory” immigration status. One casualty of those changes will be a loss of much of the dental care available to undocumented adults – care that can prevent a range of broader health problems and have what the California Dental Association called “devastating impacts” for many people and a reduction of access to…