POL California First to Cover Health Care for All (ILLEGAL) Immigrants

jward

passin' thru


California First to Cover Health Care for All Immigrants
ADAM BEAM and DON THOMPSON​

7-9 minutes​


California will become the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally, a move that will provide coverage for an additional 764,000 people at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year.

It's part of a $307.9 billion operating budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom was expected to sign Thursday. It pledges to make low-income adults eligible for the state's Medicaid program by 2024, regardless of their immigration status. It’s a long-sought victory for health care and immigration activists, who have been asking for the change for more than a decade.
Nationwide, federal and state governments join together to give free health care to low-income adults and children through Medicaid. But the federal government won't pay for people who are living in the country illegally. Some states, including California, have used their own tax dollars to cover a portion of health care expenses for some low-income immigrants.
Now, California wants to be the first to do that for everyone.
About 92% of of Californians currently have some form of health insurance, putting the state in the middle of the pack nationally. But that will change once this budget is fully implemented, as adults living in the country illegally make up one of the largest group of people without insurance in the state.

“This will represent the biggest expansion of coverage in the nation since the start of the Affordable Care Act in 2014,” said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a statewide consumer health care advocacy group. “In California we recognize (that) everybody benefits when everyone is covered.”
People living in the country illegally made up about 7% of the population nationwide in 2020, or about 22.1 million people, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health care nonprofit. They are not eligible for most public benefit programs, even though many have jobs and pay taxes.
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Tristan

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Woo, hoo!

Ain't Socialism great?

I gotta figger out how to become an illegal - it'll save my fam 10's of thou a year!


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et2

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Can they get any more stupid? Move people … move. Quit supporting the state of morons.
 

anna43

Veteran Member
We need to have cards printed up in Spanish saying California is the place you're meant to be and then list all the benefits they provide. Hopefully, that will encourage illegals to go for the benefits and move west.
 

jward

passin' thru
I know that factually, it is probably cheaper, and better for the communities public health, to treat those people through out the year, preventatively, in the clinics and dr.s offices, and not having the issues in the ER.
..still.

I certainly do not lack compassion

But. . .It's beyond insulting to do everything right and by the books, only to be victim to this organized theft ring that are our ruling elite :: spit gag spit ::

And remember, this guy has been chosen, and is all but guarenteed a chance to be the meat puppet in the oval office one day, so what he does to CA now he dreams and plans and intends for the rest of us, as well.
 

Night Breeze

Veteran Member
You know every Californian will love this when they pull up to the pumps to get $7 a gallon gas and realize they are paying for illegals medical care. How much does a hangnail cost for an emergency room Doctor to trim?
 

Squid

Veteran Member
You know this is probably part of the plan.

Make California so impossible to live you force all those stupid California voters to ID, AZ, and TX.
 
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