Medicaid for Illegals
Please note California Would Expand Medicaid to People in U.S. Illegally.
California would become the first state to provide access to its Medicaid program to all low-income residents, regardless of immigration status, under a proposal unveiled Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The plan is part of a $286.4 billion budget plan the Democrat has proposed that also includes billions of dollars in investments for the state’s wildfire response, homelessness and drought assistance.
If the plan is approved by state legislators later this year, Mr. Newsom said, all low-income Californians would qualify for the state’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal, starting January 2024.California previously extended health coverage to children who entered the U.S. without legal authorization in 2016 and later expanded those benefits to young adults up to the age of 26. Last year, California became the first state in the nation to allow seniors aged 50 and over who aren’t citizens or legal residents to participate in the program. Once fully implemented, the Medi-Cal expansion is expected to cost about $2.2 billion a year, Mr. Newsom said. The proposed spending is possible in part due to a $45.7 billion state budget surplus that is projected for the fiscal year that begins in July, due in part to growing receipts from high-income earners who pay a large share of state income and capital-gains taxes.
Marie Waldron, leader of the State Assembly’s Republican minority, opposes the expansion because she says Medi-Cal is already failing to adequately serve the approximately 14 million people who currently use the program in a state with a population of 40 million. “Enrolling millions more into the system will do little but give people an expensive insurance card that doesn’t get them access to quality healthcare,” she said.
This is absurd but it rates to get worse. Progressives are pushing the governor for Medicare for all, a single payer system, with all literally meaning all.
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Fox is saying Viagra cures Covid now. They’re really leaning into the penis pill salesman thing. You should get in on this. It’s peak kooky, and we all see how passionate you are about letting your kook flag fly at even the most tangential reference to your kooky obsession.
… and what I said. Only difference is the spin.Ordered a case of little blue pills yet, or did you already have a supply?
The private industry’s latest scam is the DCEs (Direct Contracting Entities) which was proposed by the Trump administration and is being implemented by the Biden administration (but remember, Vote Blue No Matter Who 🙂 ) Those sort of scams don’t exist in other single-payer systems either.
I agree single payer is better than what we currently have, but it’s not the best solution.
There is already a single payer (voluntary) system in the USA that works very very well.
It’s health sharing networks, of which I am a part. Members pay a base rate and share all costs between them. It’s about one eighth the cost of the ACA with far far better coverage. It even includes pre-existing conditions after a year, all prescription costs associated with a necessary treatment, and even covers all pregnancies.
It works precisely because of what you said: It cuts out the middle man. It’s a cash system where members pay each others bills. Its far cheaper since a person who pays cash gets charged, on average, 1/4th of the normal rate. Plus…..there’s no insurance costs to cover as it’s basically a cash system. Since paperwork is about half the cost of medical care these days, that’s a huge savings.
Sharing systems work very very well. My deductible is 500 per event and if it goes over 500 I pay nothing at all. My cost is around 450 a month which is incredibly low and my entire family is covered. There is zero help from the government for this.
IF the government can give a tax credit for kids they can give an incentive to low income people for health insurance if they can’t afford 500 a month. Most nearly everyone can.
Aren’t most of them religion-based meaning
you have to be a part of a congregation to benefit?
If it works it works.
If you are an atheist, go create your own sharing group for atheists. If you are Muslim, go create one for Muslims.
They work and work extremely well.
Subdividing groups allows for choice. Single payer systems do not. Choice reduces costs as there exists the possibility of reducing costs and incentives for proper health choices. Single payer systems do not grant incentives for choice. I do believe a single payer system is better than what the USA currently has, but has a huge problem with choice and the possibility of government abuse of forcing health choices on people. That has become especially urgent recently. I’m pro vaccine but not pro-forced-vaccine. If people want to be stupid, let them.
If someone wanted to create a hypothetical sharing group called “Smoking Christians” they could. Up to the free market. They can do that now and reduce costs by at least 70%.