CHCF: California's safety net faces a provider-SUPPLY squeeze too — 1 in 3 CA physicians (and ~half of dentists, pharmacists, and direct-care workers) are foreign-born, as 500+ federal actions restrict them

A California Health Care Foundation analysis reframes the immigration crackdown as a workforce-supply threat, not just a patient-coverage one. California ranks 2nd nationally for the share of foreign-born health workers (~34%): about half of the state's dentists, direct-care workers, and pharmacists — and 1 in 3 physicians — were born outside the U.S., and foreign-born clinicians disproportionately practice in under-resourced communities.

CHCF counts 500+ federal actions that have restricted foreign-born clinicians' ability to work in the U.S., and names safety-net providers (FQHCs, rural and teaching hospitals) as the most exposed because their patients have the fewest alternatives. Paired with the already-tracked ~86,000 undocumented Californians dropped from Medi-Cal, this completes the squeeze on community health centers from both sides at once: fewer insured patients AND fewer providers to see them.