And for California. the bill will be approximately $9 billion over 7 years. My district of Los Angeles County is home to some 3 million foreignborn residents. County officials estimate that denying SSI to legal immigrants could cost the county as much as S236 million per year in general relief assistance. More importantly. this translates Into no Federal assistance for the elderly or disabled children. These costs would continue to rise with the loss of Medicaid coverage for legal immigrants. More than 830.000 legal immigrants in California would lose Medicaid coverage. including 286.000 children. Overall. the total number of uninsured persons in California would rise from 6.6 million to 7.4 million. Under this bill. these people would turn to county hospitals for care.
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