While President Obama and other Democrats in the nation’s capital have emphasized throughout the years that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) does not offer coverage to undocumented immigrants, California Democrats are moving in the opposite direction.

Democrats in Sacramento are pushing legislation that will allow undocumented residents of the Golden State to buy insurance through Covered California, the state-run PPACA marketplace.

Even if the law is approved, its effect is constrained by the fact that undocumented customers will not be allowed to tap into the federal subsidies that 85 percent of other marketplace customers take advantage of. A recent analysis done by Covered California projected that 50,000 new customers would enter the marketplace if the bill passes.