Tag: Affordable Care Act
Gavin Newsom’s California Budget: Undocumented Immigrants Will Get Health Care Coverage
California Democrats reached a budget deal late Sunday agreeing to pay for undocumented immigrants living in the country illegally to have full health benefits, while abandoning the $140 million water tax on residential customers. Undocumented immigrants between the ages of...
California Budget Countdown: Focus on Single Payer, Individual Mandate Tax, Medical Socialism
June 15 is the deadline for the passage of the California budget, which must be passed by midnight. As of Friday afternoon, lawmakers who are members of the Conference Committee on the Budget were still waiting around for news of...
Accusations of Racism in CA Senate Debate Over Medi-Cal Coverage for Illegal Immigrants
California Democrats frequently conflate “legal” and “illegal” immigrants when they debate legislation expanding government services to those in California illegally. When called out on this important distinction in the Senate Wednesday, they reacted with accusations of “racism, bigotry and xenophobia”...
The Approach Gov. Newsom is Implementing to Achieve ‘Single Payer’
Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced a plan to cover the health care of young undocumented immigrants – children and young adults – and it would divert public health funding from 45 counties tasked with serving poor populations. This is a...
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s State of the State Address: Resist Trump, Grow CA Government
In his first State of the State speech Tuesday, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he will significantly refashion former Gov. Jerry Brown’s pet projects, including the mismanaged High Speed Rail project, and the Delta Tunnels project will be downsized...