A Los Angeles restaurant workers' group and a community clinic have launched a new initiative to provide healthcare to undocumented workers without health care. The program will offer preventive and primary care to workers in the restaurant industry. While the program is targeting undocumented workers, it will also provide coverage to others who are not covered under federal health care laws. Around 75,000 restaurant workers are not able to access health care because of immigration issues, and advocates say that is both a human issue and a public health problem. The program began last fall, and is now expanding.
See "L.A. program offers healthcare for illegal restaurant workers", Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2012