Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at the 2024 DNC in Chicago on 8/20/24 (Photo: DNC official video screenshot)
After Bankrupting Medi-Cal, Gov. Newsom Wants CA Elderly and Disabled to Pay
CA Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a ‘means’ or ‘asset’ test for seniors to prove eligibility for Medi-Cal healthcare benefits
By Katy Grimes, June 5, 2025 3:25 am
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Medi-Cal program for low-income Californians is insolvent. We have Gavin Newsom to thank; he gifted free Medi-Cal coverage to every illegal immigrant in the state, costing taxpayers $10 billion to $12 billion.
Newsom recently confessed that California’s Medi-Cal is insolvent. Medi-Cal is California’s Medicaid program, a public health insurance program which provides needed health care services for low-income individuals. As California Congressman Kevin Kiley noted in April, “the cost of Newsom’s policy of giving free coverage to every illegal immigrant in the state has ballooned to $9.5 billion, and he’s now asked for a $3.4 billion “loan” just to continue making payments for this month.”
Now Governor Newsom has a new scheme – he’s going to cut Medi-Cal to any poor or disabled elderly Californian who has $2,000 in “assets.”
The governor also proposed “freezing new enrollment” for illegal aliens as a way to cut Medi-Cal costs. Really? Not signing up more illegal aliens for Medi-Cal will “cut Medi-Cal costs?”
Ah, New Math is at work for the governor, who I suspect flunked regular math.
“Along with low-income adults, many seniors and people with disabilities use Medi-Cal benefits that include in-home care services,” Fox News reported.
This is pure evil of Gov. Newsom. The governor allowed how many illegal aliens onto the state Medi-Cal program, clearly to bolster his liberal chops?
Fox reported that Newsom “is proposing a $100 per month premium for Medi-Cal enrollees 19 and up with “unsatisfactory immigration status,” which “refers to people whose immigration status makes them ineligible for federally funded Medicaid, including people with lawful status and the undocumented” — this would take effect Jan. 1, 2027, under the proposal.”
So Gov. Newsom isn’t cutting illegal aliens from the Medi-Cal program, but claims he will charge them $100 per month premiums, as if that will offset the amount he has bankrupted the entire Medi-Cal system.
CalMatters reported in a compelling article very interesting information about previous asset limitations, and what Gov. Newsom has imposed – or not:
Some lawmakers and disability advocates have argued against the asset limit for years. They say it forces people into poverty and hasn’t kept up with rising inflation and cost of living.
Newsom agreed to raise the limit to $130,000 per person in 2022. Then in 2024, the limit was erased completely. Now Newsom wants to bring back the original limit of $2,000, an amount that was set in 1989.
This would reinstate complex rules about wealth and property that kept thousands of seniors and disabled people from qualifying for Medi-Cal. Under those rules, an individual’s first home and car are exempt, but other properties count toward the $2,000 limit. The balance of a 401k or retirement account are exempt, although payouts are considered income. Life insurance, cash on hand and savings accounts also count towards the limit. Even certain types of funeral plots count.
In California, rental homes are very expensive, requiring renters to have enough on hand to cover future rent down payments, as well as emergency expenses and medical expenses not covered by Medi-Cal.
The average rent in San Francisco is $3,495. per month.
The average rent in Los Angeles is around $2,748 per month. A 2-bedroom apartment is $2,856 per month. Houses for rent in Los Angeles are significantly more expensive at $4,925 per month on average.
The average rent in San Diego is $3,063. per month.
The average rent in Sacramento is $1,950. per month, but the average size for a Sacramento, CA apartment is 825 square feet!
The average rent in the state of California is approximately $2,770 per month. While that seems high to anyone from other states, this is low for big cities and anywhere desirable. but this amount varies based on location, size, and type of property.
“Advocates say Newsom’s proposal unfairly targets people with disabilities and the elderly — those who are most likely to need full-time care and have fixed incomes.”
“Democrats are desperate for the votes from illegals and their numbers for the census. That’s it,” Paul Szypula posted to X.
Is this where we are really positioned? The illegal immigration flood at the border was all about gaining new voters?
That was rhetorical – of course, it was and continues to be all about gaining New Democrat voters.
Remember, Gov. Newsom expanded Medi-Cal to cover all illegal aliens, and the bills are coming due and Newsom is overdrawn – with no checks left.
Assemblyman Carl DeMaio (R-San Diego) said in April, “I uncovered this cost spike 2 weeks ago…and got removed from Budget Committee for exposing it,” on X. “CA Governor asks for emergency $3.4B loan to cover Medi-Cal cost spike for free health care for illegal immigrants.”
DeMaio said the program has no money left. “It is broke. It is insolvent. They can’t pay hospitals, doctors, nurses and health care providers, which means giving free health care to illegal immigrants puts the health insurance security for the neediest among us at risk,” DeMaio told Fox Business. “Children, seniors, others that cannot afford it are being threatened with their health coverage because we gave away the store to illegal immigrants. It needs to stop. Governor Newsom’s Medi-Cal system should be audited by the Trump administration immediately.”
And Gavin Newsom is charging California’s poor and disabled for his own economic inadequacies. What a #@%!
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March 14, 2025
We need a new governor and better people with COMMON SENSE in our state government! People, let’s vote these people out!
Trump administration or DOGEneeds to be permitted to audit CA’s records and expose ALL falicies in newsom’s spending.
this restriction on new illegals being able to sign up doesn’t even start until 2027!!!! AFTER his ‘relinqishing’ his authoritative position. for the next 2 years the illegals can still enroll! AND receive the care that the elderly & disabled LEGAL CITIZEN’S need, have earned & paid into.
FIRE NEWSOM NOW!!!!!!!
What illegals. Trump is deporting them all. Or is that a fallacy too ?
Wait it until it affects you and it will smart asses like you have zero clue whats coming you will have nothing but the illegals you support will. Im not dem or Rep. They all suck.
THERE ARE PLENTY IN CALIFORNIA THEY ARRIVE EVERY DAY. YOU LET THEM IN YOU PAY FOR THEM send the all back.
it’s really not true. Trump is really just getting rid of 3000 per month. Remember during Biden he was averaging 15,000 per day on the assumption the economy was so good we could supply jobs and Healthcare to all migrants. By June 2024 the economy was dead for California or USA.
your governor is not helping to deport them, he is fighting in court to keep them.
he seems more worried about illegals than Americans
We had our chance with the recall a couple of years ago, but the democrats outnumber the sane and it failed, just like this state is failing.
California elections are rigged.
Yeah Trump is doing such a great job isn’t he. Adding 1.8 trillion to our budget when he campaigned on shrinking it.
You trumpers are sucker’s for anything g he tells you.
2 wings 1 bird you are no better if you dont get that yet. Your all being played
Your comments suggest you’re a supporter of the left, and while I do agree Trump’s second term has been and will be chaotic, you’d have more credibility if you would be honest about the internal flaws of your party. I guess it’s clear, though, that you are incapable of believing what your eyes and ears are telling you. The left lost – big (in election terms) – because they framed their positions supporting 20% of the population while ignoring 80% of the population’s wishes. But keep your head in the sand and tell everyone “anyone but Trump”. That worked last time.
Don’t complain. nothing has changed. Biden was on course for 1.8 Trillion Budget Deficit this year. so Trump just keeps what Biden was going to provide.
yawn you said nothing when Biden added 7 billion to the budget.
you said nothing when newsam gave the million of illegals in California free health care.
Trump is doing a h*ll of a lot better job that your senile Pres. Biden and brain dead Gov. Newsom.
Name one thing Newsom has done to benefit law abiding, tax paying U.S. citizens in this state. You can’t, because he had done a damn for anyone with a job. Newsom is a loser, just like the rest of the Commucrats.
so true
They named it “dominion” for a REASON, Mongo… it matters not who votes, but who COUNTS the votes, and HOW LONG they have to create the numbers they need to retain their chokehold on California….
ELECTION FRAUD is RAMPANT in California and the elections are indeed RIGGED….
First governor Newson need to stop spending money on the train track to nowhere bankrupt it now
All the demoncrats are crooks evil minded not caring for citizens that built this country giving our resources to idiots that refuse to speak the English language they are racist that’s why they smile at your face and stab you in the back they are killing the Americans with there drugs and replacing them with a two face choontado that gets everything that my country owes me im 65 homeless disabled all I get is a EBT card 20 dollars a month a free cell phone my SSDI is from my taxes that I earned from 20+yrs working.
I so agree with you !!!
This seems incredibly bad for not only taxpayers, but the elderly and disabled. Any normal politician would end his career if he extended benefits to illegals, bankrupted MediCal, borrowed billions to prop it up, then used voodoo math to justify it. Can he dance his way out of this? Time will tell.
I just hope that he gets kicked out NOW.
He is termed out.
We need to keep him out of the white house
Yeah the guy in there now Is doing his own voodoo budget dance. But we all know your kind just look the other way.
Your comments suggest you’re a supporter of the left, and whileI do agree Trump’s second term has been and will be chaotic, you’d have more credibility if you would be honest about the internal flaws of your party. I guess it’s clear, though, that you are incapable of believing what your eyes and ears are telling you. The left lost – big (in election terms) – because they framed their positions supporting 20% of the population while ignoring 80% of the population’s wishes. But keep your head in the sand and tell everyone “anyone but Trump”. That worked last time.
Yes, he is, but as long as the people who put him in power are still counting the votes, you may as well brace yourself for four years of Kamala.
Any Asshole who brags he got this far on his looks alone (this was revealed by one of his inner sanctom employees to my daughter, a waitress while she serviced them 2 years ago in Placerville at the ButterCup restaurant ) needs to go.
It’s a good thing he’s termed out because if Gavin Newsom was running for reelection he would most likely lose. Why you ask? Because by bankrupting Medic-Cal he has pissed off one of the largest voting blocks in California, Senior Citizens. Newsom is near completion of his destruction of the formerly Golden State from his disastrous mishandling of the pandemic in which thousands died who shouldn’t have, pissing away almost $25,000,000,000 on homeless programs which were designed to fail, burdening the state with future $8 to $10 a gallon of gasoline, the list goes on and on.
While Newsom goes off in search of his delusional aspirations to become president the rest of us will have to live in the wake of his destruction. So who’s going to fix all this? Madam Knee Pads aka Kamala Harris? Katy Porter? Even by some miracle that a Republican gets in the Governor’s seat like Steve Hilton, he would be stuck with a completely worthless and hard left legislature.
My advice to Republicans in this state is you use a phrase and one phrase only, BLAME DEMOCRATS. Most of the problems in this state were caused Democrats. But don’t just blame them, offer solutions. People already know what the problems are, they want to hear what you’re going to do about it. In the meantime we Californians are going to suffering for years to come. Yes I know, this is very depressing, this is why I’m never invited to parties.
For sure . The demonrats have ruined our state abused our Citizens and enriched themselves . Enough of their criminal , anti middle class stance and their overwhelming craving for money and power . Out with all the bums !
🤣 Depressing but sadly true.
I don’t believe that this is merely another fiscal screw-up from this governor. It is so reminiscent of the last time Gavin Newsom tried to off the elderly and disabled, namely during Covid Fake Hysteria, that it’s become a pattern. And as I recall he had a lot of success in that effort.
How cruel, crass, imperious, and murderous can one person be? Never mind that this is only the latest addition in a long, long, L-O-N-G, years-long, list of jackbooted cruelty from this governor. Just when we think we’ve seen it all from this guy he tops himself. And not in a good way. Never in a good way.
We obviously need outside intervention to rein in this maniac. Let’s hope we get that help, and soon.
Newsom is just middle management. Recall, first, that he’s a minion of the WEF Young Global Leaders program, and second, he is not a king. He has lots of help from our supposedly elected Democrat super-majority in Sacramento. The goal is to bankrupt us, strip us of our rights, particularly property rights, and force us into accepting and adapting to “15 minute city” gulags. The problem is that, while the Democrat party, which is owned by the radical Left, is the cause of our suffering, Republicans are doing their level best to prove that they aren’t the solution. I don’t think we can vote our way back to freedom.
Once again Gov. “Hair-gel Hitler” Newsom and the criminal Democrat thug mafia in the legislature have put legal Californians last. Bankrupting Medical-Cal by pandering to their illegal alien hordes is a crime that they all should be personally held liable for. How many of us would like to see them all be hauled into court and watch them squirm trying to justify what they’ve done? Maybe Newsom’s assets and his multi-million dollar Marin County estate could be seized providing some restitution to taxpayers and legal Californians?
The criminal Democrat mafia thugs in the legislature are pandering again to their illegal alien hordes with Assembly Bill 930 which allows non-citizens and illegal aliens to serve on official recount boards and handle ballots. The bill was passed Assembly Democrats by a vote of 59-16 and it now heads to the California State Senate where it will probably be passed by traitorous Senate Democrats and then signed into law by “Hair-gel Hitler” Newsom.
It’s infuriating?
Democrat Democratic Assemblymember Chris Ward authored Assembly Bill 930. He represents the 78th Assembly District that spans along San Diego County’s coast from Solana Beach to the Mexican border. How many of his constituents in San Diego’s wealthy coastal communities like Coronado or Del Mar were clamoring for this legislation? Few to none?
No doubt some nefarious groups are behind this legislation and what incentives did Democrat Assemblyman Chris Ward receive to push this legislation? Any white man like him that’s still in the Democrat party has to be corrupt to the core?
It’s No longer United States of America. United States of Criminals. They all are using the system to make themselves Wealthy and try to act like they care and they stay in their positions for tooo many years and don’t get Anything done. I think it was Rubio last week said he had been working on something for 16 years and still nothing has happened. How can someone work on something more than a year and no resulution and not realize your going in the wrong direction????
YES. I am guilty of wanting to see justice done here. I want to see some squirming in court and then I want to see some property seizures to address restitution, even partially, and then I want to see some prison time. Is that too much to ask?
I LOVE Hair-gel-Hitler!!!!!!!
Looks like Governor Hairgel Dipsh*t has painted himself into YET ANOTHER financial corner….
Pander to the illegal voting bloc to get their votes, then pull up the drawbridge after the fact, kinda like “Joe Biden” releasing inflation reports that were all sunshine and fairy-farts, and then revising them downwards 2-3 months later after no one is paying attention….
As other posters have mentioned, STOP VOTING DEMOCRAT and PROTEST ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES that “dominate” as well as VOTING SEASON instead of voting DAY….
The UTTER CORRUPTION in California voting procedures and platforms require MASSIVE OVERHAULS…
Vote for Chad Bianco or Leo Zacky who have had ACTUALY LEADERSHIP experience – be wary of Steve Hilton, who is a candidate in the Schwarzenegger mode…
If you look at the history of leftists they have always targeted the weak for destruction and they particularly hate the elderly who carry memories of life not under their tyranny. The disabled are simply easy victims for leftist bullies.
Have you noticed how BLM and Antifa always attack elderly people?
CW, I remember well how, during the Covid Fake Hysteria Era, you said that about how the elderly carry memories of normal life before tyranny and thus were targets for brutal leftists. Thank you, because I hadn’t thought of it that way before you said it. I realized it was true, and the examples of it are endless.
I have been saying the memories of the elders are the actual targets of these psychopaths, who will kill us to remedy the problem.. We remember how it was, how it got that.way, and how to change it. That horrifies schmuck politicians like Newsome!
Thank you Gretchen, I agree that is what’s going on here. Heck with these evil politicians
Ted Lieu bathing the Gruber with adoration.
Haven’t seen that level of ecstasy since Kevin clapped in front of Moonbeam’s podium.
…Guber…
Thanks to the “Gov” stabbing Kaiser for this care, I now have to wait 3 to 4 WEEKS to see doctor. My wife and daughter both had ti go to the E/R for care because they couldn’t see a Doctor in any semblance of a timely manner.
and my monthly premiums went up $145 a month in January. way to stick it to the citizens while allowing non citizens to be fully covered
I hope people remember this when he decides to run for president. Screw him and his policies. This is what he did to California. Imagine what he’ll do to the United States
I’ve never felt so hopeless in this state. The corruption here is so deep. With millions of illegals that entered the past four years, we don’t stand a chance for a Republican governor in the future.
Rather than limiting the assets to $2000.00 for legitimate citizens, the nation states whose citizens are receiving benefits should be be billed for services rendered ( public assistance, medical care , etc). The liberals will howl to the moon at such a common sense act.
Certainly it is ax handles and torches time now, right? If not now, when? Are we going to wait until we can no longer afford it?
Add THIS to Newsom’s LONG list of FAILURES, along with the rest of the California Democrats, who enabled the conditions for the Palisades and Eaton fires, which ran off the debris into Santa Monica Bay, and killed and sickened innocent sea life….
California Democrats have ZERO awareness of the implications of the downstream impacts from their “feel good” policies and PANDERING to “green” interests
https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2025/06/04/domoic-acid-algae-bloom-is-over-says-marine-mammal-care-center-as-it-releases-4-sea-lion-pups/
I disagree. Newsom’s failures are actually his successes and Demonrats are 100% aware of the impacts of their policies. The destruction is the plan.
Sadly, I think you are right. It’s long past being able to attribute the misery we live in now to just incompetence. It’s willful malice. For the people in charge of this state the suffering IS the purpose. Because it gives them an evil sense of power over all of us. Plus, they can just exclaim year after year “we have all the solutions if you just vote for us” and sadly, the vast majority of voters here are so brainwashed that they will continue to believe that and thus perpetuate the misery. It’s so unbelievably depressing.
You beat me to it. These people and their handlers in the shadows are not stupid. All of these disasters were deliberate, and intended to achieve the specific goal of destroying this country. It isn’t negligence or incompetence. It’s the face of evil.
this idiot has to go. he screwed up california and stole money for his own personal use. and now this jerk will sail of In the sunset. and become rich off of hard workin californians what a piece of crap.
Newscum don’t care about any California people he cares about his self and his own money his own future so if u believe him & his b.s then u should vote 4 him when he runs 4 president!! people better wake up he blames everybody else 4 his corrupt ways of running the state he doesn’t care about how much people are struggling here in CA look at the car registration fees in this state absolutely outrageous rural area fire insurance fees pg&e prices which also funded his &his wife’s b.s gasoline fees taxes there sitting up there wright now at the capital thinking of ways they can get more money out of all of us California people we the people of California need to go stand wright in front of the capital steps and demand changes done immediately to this state of California other wise they are just going to keep screwing all of us every chance they get !! Mark my words on that !! better Wake up !! if u don’t say nothing nothing will ever get done!!
a new governor is going to hv to come in and change what newscum did he obviously doesn’t care about ur elderly people living on fixed incomes the money they put away in there 401 k& retirement fund is being eaten up really quick with these outrageous costs the only people here in California who like him is state and county workers because they hv great pay& retirement benefits so there all pro newscum retired people paying full property taxes on there homes who don’t even hv children or grand children in the state or county is rediclious coming on TV and saying it’s the oil company’s that are screwing us California people at the pump and pointing at the camera like he pointing at us people watching TV so when the carb wants to raise the price of gas by 60 cents per gallon is just the beginning and when the CA people started to complain about the price going up on top of what we already pay people wanted to put a motion into the governor Newscum office he said he would veto it because obviously he wants the extra money to come into the state u can tell he’s related to Nancy he’s not going to happy until he bankrupts the elderly people her in California with all these outrageous expenses mandatory garbage bills even if there not picking up garbage mandatory water bills even if ur not using a drop of water because ur home is hooked up to the sewer if u take a vacation for extended time garbage company charging u even though there no garbage still charging you full price this is wrong pretty soon when u drive by the gas station and grocery store without even getting groceries or gas they will be sending you a bill state only has one garbage Co you deal with which is waste management there should be more companies so there no competition so they control the market these are things that the governor should take action on But not newscum
You should use periods.
IMPEACH NEWSOME !!!!
English teacher periods don’t correct the major problems with this states govenor .!! I know periods are more important wright get a life.!!
Newsom, the worst governor in the history of California. Everything this guy touches, turns to sh*t. The train is bankrupt. Medicaid is bankrupt. Unemployment insurance is bankrupt. The state pension system is bankrupt.
I am nearing 80. I was born here. I depend upon Medi-Cal. If approval for Medi-Cal is reduced to $2,000 or less in assets I will no longer qualify, which means I will have no access to healthcare. Newsom would be sentencing me to death. It’s that simple. Of course I have more than $2,000 in assets; how else could I pay my rent and other regular monthly expenses? But healthcare? That would exhaust every dollar I have within days. I would not even dare go to a doctor, not for anything. Newsom wants to support and pay for millions of people who are not even in the country legally. However, for those of us who were born here, tough luck. I may as well start making arrangements for my own self-assisted suicide. I knew Newsom’s father, Judge Newsom. Not well, but somewhat. He was a real gentleman, a kind, friendly man. His son, not so much.