January 1st brings Health Care for All Illegal Immigrants, and Crazifornia’s Universal Health Care
CA Democrats passed a new untested government-run system, with no ability to opt out or choose private coverage instead
By Katy Grimes, December 30, 2023 8:33 am
In 2019, California achieved another first, but it was not something to crow about. California became the first state to provide taxpayer-funded health coverage to illegal aliens age 19 to 25, when Democrats and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the state budget.
The Globe reported, “Once lawmakers realized that they could pass major state policy – not through the proper committee process which include public hearings, public oversight – but through a $1,000 appropriation in a trailer bill, too many of the big changes in the budget are now buried in massive quantities of text and decided behind closed doors.”
The coverage is under Medi-Cal, California’s health insurance program for the poor, disabled, and now for those living in the country and state illegally.
State officials estimated about 90,000 additional people would quality at a cost of $98 million per year.
This was done despite that 93 percent of Californians have health insurance – the California Legislature approved the tax to California citizens who do not buy health insurance.
But it was even worse than just covering the health care costs for those in the state and country illegally. Newsom’s and Democrats’ SB78 created the “Individual Mandate” to require Californians to purchase health insurance, and imposes a fine for failure to do so.
The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office warned this could indirectly result in increased state costs in Medi‑Cal, and/or if the individual mandate actually succeeds in more Californians signed up for state health insurance, fewer Californians will pay the penalty tax resulting in less money.
“Universal health care’s a right, and we’re delivering it — regardless of immigration status — to everyone up to the age of 26, and we’re gonna get the rest of that done, mark my words,” Gov. Newsom said.
By July 2121, Democrats and the governor signed into law AB 133 giving illegal immigrants ages 26 and under, as well as 50 and older, health coverage.
By January 2022, Gov. Newsom again buried his push for universal health care [for all] and included universal health coverage to all immigrants, regardless of current residency status into his proposed $286.4 billion 2022-2023 budget.
This added at least another 700,000 illegal immigrants to state healthcare, costing an additional $2.4 billion a year.
“We said we were going to do it, said it would take a few years, we are committed to doing it,” said Newsom.
Newsom’s final expansion of full-scope Medi-Cal goes into effect Monday, January 1, 2024, making more than 700,000 illegal immigrants residents between ages 26 and 49 eligible for full health care coverage – at a very precarious time with his $68 billion budget deficit.
If Gavin Newsom and the state’s Democrats – who surely flunked basic math – are trying to bankrupt the state, they are going about it correctly. This latest expansion of Medi-Cal will cost $2.6 billion annually on top of the $330 billion budget.
And notably, California is the only state in the country to fund health care for illegal immigrants.
BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE!
In October, Gov. Newsom signed SB 770 by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) “to force all Californians out of their existing health coverage – including Medicare, employer-based coverage and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) plans – and into a new untested government-run system, with no ability to opt out or choose private coverage instead,” the Globe reported.
SB 770 braces California for universal healthcare – most notably – as a single-payer system that leftists have been agitating for on their march toward fully socialized, government-run health care.
Opponents of the bill provided cogent arguments to this socialization of health care:
A group of health plans, insurers, physicians groups, and the California Chamber of Commerce wrote in opposition to this bill stating that the ultimate goal is force all Californians out of their existing health coverage – including Medicare, employer-based coverage and ACA plans – and into a new untested government-run system, with no ability to opt out or choose private coverage instead. (This is defined as Socialized medicine)
This bill also requires raising taxes by roughly $300 billion a year. (The entire state budget is about $330 billion a year – emphasis ours)
Opponents also point out that any waiver obtained through this bill would not be permanent and could be disallowed by Congress at any time, eliminating 40% of the funding for the new health care system. So California taxpayers would be paying even more than the estimated $300 billion a year…
Finally, this bill provides little details on how the transition to this system would be achieved, how providers would be reimbursed, and could ultimately cause providers to leave the state.
As the Globe warned before the health care bill was signed into law, “What Senator Wiener is proposing is far worse than Obamacare, and will tax Californians an additional $300 Billion – double the state budget in total.”
This is only proof that Gov. Newsom and Democrats have come at the single payer and universal healthcare issue from all sides, to ensure their schemes were enshrined into state law.
They can’t add 2 and 2 – or just don’t care, which appears to be the real issue.
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SIGH! Just keep trashing and devastating the State of California, okay, Newsom?
Question: Has there been ONE item, ONE policy, ONE boost for Californians (legal citizens and taxpayers, that is) that Newsom has signed on to that has actually been good for the people in this state instead of the polar opposite? Anything that has been a net positive? An attempt to be fair? Something that hasn’t been downright harmful, Every.Single.Time? A well-intentioned failure, at least? Can anyone name just ONE thing?
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to say “Happy New Year” and not choke on it if you live in the formerly Golden State. And if anyone who doesn’t live here or isn’t paying attention wants to know who is responsible, that would of course be the most puffed-up, arrogant, narcissistic, parasitic, sociopathic clown of a horse’s ass this state has EVER had in its political ranks ——- our own Worst Governor Ever, Gavin Newsom.
This time you have succinctly articulated my thoughts. My only comment to you is watch what happens in Germany and Europe. Newsom and gang are not long for this position. With all of the early storms that will come it will be a rough first few months of 2024 but as the year goes on it will get better. Ultimately 2024 is going to be an epic year. Happy New Years to you and yours.
Hope so, Hal. Appreciate your optimism. Sounding the alarm about Newsom remains important, I think, beyond California. There is always hope for improvement, and that is what a new year is all about, of course. We’ll see…
Happy New Year to you and yours too.
I COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER!!!!!!!!!! AND TO THINK HE WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT! I KNOW DEMONRATS ARE A DIFFERENT BREED, TO SAY IT NICELY, BUT THAT SOB ALLOWED TO BE ‘SELECTED’ GOV, IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HUMANS DON’T THINK ABOUT CONSEQUENCES OF VOTING AND WHO *NOT* TO EVER ALLOW TO HOLD A GOVERNMENT OFFICE – EVER! SHAME ON IGNORANT VOTERS! SEE WHERE IT GOT CALIFORNIA! GLAD I’M OLD, ESPECIALLY IN THIS F-ED UP DEMONRAT WORLD!
Aiding, abetting, and harboring known illegals – are all laws being broken here…America is not a nation of laws – its a nation of tyrants heading for complete implosion of total corruption and tyrannical power and we see it coming.
Good post, as the “Royal Governor Nuisance, and Aunt Nancy Pelosi have made sure THEY are the ones who make Millions(wineries, co owned, etc. and HER Insider Trading-which should have had charges filed against her, as they have ‘Taken Down our Once Great State of Ca. and HE thinks HE is presidential material??? WOW, what an ego as HE can’t run a lemonade stand without being a failure….She bashes “MAGA voters…Shame on that Mafia Princess who learned from her DADDY-HOW to USE Political Office to GET RICH. Fboth!
Just like the EV and solar push, this will implode!
The problem is, it will implode after they flush our hard earned money down the drain.
Check out our southern border crisis. Gavin will have many more takers!
I am with Show and Orwellianism, Gav is bad for California and the United States! He is a sociopath!
In our eyes he and his supermajority have failed this state. In their eyes they have succeeded, immensely!
Next comes the rationing of healthcare services, just like water consumption!
I’m trying to think where the $300 billion would come from. If we’re going to call it universal healthcare, shouldn’t we bill the governments of the countries where the immigrants come from? Universal healthcare needs universal payment.
Sounds like a plan to completely collapse the health care industry in California. No doubt illegals will get red carpet priority over citizens.
This explains why it takes me up to two months to get in to see my primary care doc now.
If Newsome wants a presidential run, health care for illegals will not ingratiate to any on the fence independents. In fact, this policy and the way California has been run into the ground will ruin his run.
Giving them more incentive to break our immigration laws. While the American working class pays the bill. Typical California.
vote for trump 2024 to end this madness
The American “Melting Pot” that once held the promise of a peaceful and productive social experiment has become a “toilet bowl” of chronic, poisonous political conflict, and an endemic threat to American social cohesion and prosperity. Biden’s open borders have debased, devalued, degraded, dishonored and terminally damaged American citizenship and national sovereignty. Open borders are the death knell of American democracy.
Excellent and TRUE POST, Paul….As “That is the O/Biden Plan to ‘Take Down ARROGANT(O’s words America’- just as his 8 yrs in office showed, and shoving Dementia Addled Biden “Over the Threshold in the 2020 rigged election was to “Continue the Obama’s Agenda that he and His Puppet Master Soros planned…Still going on, as they will get RID of Biden(who was Only shoved over the threshold to KEEP THE W.H. Seat warm for their Next Move. It was/IS Obama who was behind the ‘sabotage of first Campaigner Trump, then as POTUS TRUMP, from the day he came down the escalator to declare!
He is SO jealous of the Great Accomplishments of President Trump-a TRUE LEADER, that is like a ‘Cancer, eating at Obama’s guts, because he did NOTHING FOR BLACKS, as Trump DID, and All Americans who prospered for his first four years in office. All Obama did was “USE blacks to try to start a Race War in Ferguson when he told BLM Thugs:
‘STAY THE COURSE’ as they rioted, looted, attacked police, burned down businesses and it continued in DEM RUN CITIES. By contrast, POTUS Trump KEPT HIS PROMISES TO Blacks, Asians, Hispanics AND Women…and DELIVERED Jobs, that Obama said Won’t Return!!
What a couple of Racists(against whites) the Obamas Really are!!! They see themselves as the ‘World’s Ruling Class/Elitists and became wealthy FROM Politics, whereas, Trump was “Already a successful businessman, world wide and EARNED HIS BILLIONS!!! The Others like the Obama’s/Bidens, etal. used political careers as a “License to Steal” and got Rich…Pelosi, Schumer, etal.
Sorry Paul, but I tried to reply to your excellent post, but am being DENIED…Guess Google or whatever doesn’t Really believe in “FREEDOM OF SPEECH, UNLESS IT’S LIBERALS!”
Excellent and TRUE POST, Paul….As “That is the O/Biden Plan to ‘Take Down ARROGANT(O’s words America’- just as his 8 yrs in office showed, and shoving Dementia Addled Biden “Over the Threshold in the 2020 rigged election was to “Continue the Obama’s Agenda that he and His Puppet Master Soros planned…Still going on, as they will get RID of Biden(who was Only shoved over the threshold to KEEP THE W.H. Seat warm for their Next Move. It was/IS Obama who was behind the ‘sabotage of first Campaigner Trump, then as POTUS TRUMP, from the day he came down the escalator to declare!
He is SO jealous of the Great Accomplishments of President Trump-a TRUE LEADER, that is like a ‘Cancer, eating at Obama’s guts, because he did NOTHING FOR BLACKS, as Trump DID, and All Americans who prospered for his first four years in office. All Obama did was “USE blacks to try to start a Race War in Ferguson when he told BLM Thugs:
‘STAY THE COURSE’ as they rioted, looted, attacked police, burned down businesses and it continued in DEM RUN CITIES. By contrast, POTUS Trump KEPT HIS PROMISES TO Blacks, Asians, Hispanics AND Women…and DELIVERED Jobs, that Obama said Won’t Return!!
What a couple of Racists(against whites) the Obamas Really are!!! They see themselves as the ‘World’s Ruling Class/Elitists and became wealthy FROM Politics, whereas, Trump was “Already a successful businessman, world wide and EARNED HIS BILLIONS!!! The Others like the Obama’s/Bidens, etal. used political careers as a “License to Steal” and got Rich…Pelosi, Schumer, etal.
Let’s get off the “blame Biden” train when he has nothing to do with Cali decisions. Dems always seem to pander to illegal immigrants, and Repubs don’t want to address the problem so they can keep their “immigration” bat to beat Dems over the head every four years.
Neither party has clean hands. Yet the answer surely isn’t to make citizens pay for the healthcare of people in this country illegally, while penalizing citizens who don’t have or can’t afford such coverage.
This is complete insanity? No doubt creepy Senator Scott Wiener, hair-gel Hitler Newsom and the rest of the legislative criminal Democrats are deliberately trying to bankrupt and destroy the state on behalf of their globalist masters? Maybe working class and middle class Californians will soon need to flee south of the border for a better life?
No kidding, TJ. Flee south for a better life! Sure, it sounds odd now but if that were to happen in great numbers (and it might) would THAT wake everyone up?
Since this heath care fleecing of Californians with Money, did Governor Gruesome and his Dumbocrats Toadies ever consider that illegals and pope folk in neighboring states such as Arizona, Oregon, and Nevada could drive over, say they live in Taxaformia and get FREE HEATHCARE and live in a low cost/tax state? What is Gruesome and is dumbocrats toadies smoking? I am a former CONSERVATIVE CALIFORNIA RESIDENT NOW LIVING IN THE FREE STATE OF South Carolina
It won’t be long before the illegals will be
the dominant population of California.
The other states should think twice about
electing any Democrat to office. Newsome
is predicted to run against Trump.
If Newsome wins, the other states that are
not sanurary will also join in on coming
one. The Democrats have the right
mascot,donkeys,who are also known as
asses!!!! they should have picked the
elephant,a caring and peaceful animal.
I AGREE 100! WHEN ALL THESE GAZILLION ILLEGALS COME HERE, AND DEMOCRATS CONTINUE TO CONTROL/RUIN THIS FAILING STATE, IT WILL BE THE FINAL AXE! IF NEWSCUM WERE TO WIN AS PRES, IT WOULD BE DUE TO 2 THINGS! 1. THE CHEATING IS STILL BEING PROMOTED AND ALLOWED BY DEMOCRATS 2. GOD FINALLY DECIDED THIS COUNTRY/WORLD DESERVES TO BE CLEANED OUT OF ALL THE CRUD, STARTING WITH ALL THE BAD ACTORS (i.e DEMON*RATS) YET AGAIN!!! AND THAT HAPPENING WOULD BEGIN THE HUMAN-IDIOT CAUSED IMPLOSION! IT’S ALMOST TO THAT POINT NOW! SHAME ON THAT PARTY! THE ISH IS REAL AND THE SMART DECENT PEOPLE SEE IT!
SB 770 includes this “(c) Services that will not vary by age, employment status, disability status, income, immigration status, or other characteristics.”
These legislators are communist, anti-America, hate-mongering, idiots and fools. So those of us who work ALL THE TIME and pay more than half of everything we make back in taxes, and are willing with great sacrifice to purchase premium health care, are now going to have no choice but to get in line for generic low-end health services with people from failed nations who don’t work, have no marketable skills, and whose children are being trained in public schools to hate us?
This is war.
The Totally Affordable Care Act for Illegals, paid for by the same folks who brought the Dems to you in California.
They of course tout some ridiculously rigged survey saying that “most” people in California support this. They probably only asked illegal immigrants if they support this. There isn’t a single rational person in California who thinks spending $4 billion per year on free healthcare for people in the country illegally is a good idea. And that includes people who immigrated here legally. These needs to be challenged in the courts absolute fraud that it is.