'I was scared to death': Patients jailed over unpaid medical debt in rural Kansas
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County in Kansas jailing people over unpaid medical debt
At a time when healthcare policy dominates national debate, a county in Kansas is jailing individuals with medical debt.
Judge David Casement is a magistrate judge in Coffeyville, Kansas, where the poverty rate is twice the national average. He presides over cases in which individuals with medical debt are brought to court to face the medical companies they owe. During the hearings, the debtors must make a case for their own poverty during what is known as a “debtors exam.”
The practice was detailed extensively in a ProPublica report from October.
One of the debt collectors at the center of the debtors exams, an attorney named Michael Hassenplug, has essentially built a law practice around collecting medical debt.
Mr Hassenplug influenced the creation of a law under which the court can compel people with outstanding medical bills to appear in court every three months and make a defense of their poverty.
During the hearings, debt collectors can assess the financial situations of the debtors and afterward attempt to negotiate payment plans. If a debtor misses two hearings, Mr Casement issues an arrest warrant for contempt of court and sets bail at $500.
Mr Hassenplug gets paid a portion of the debtor’s bail money. Generally when a defendant appears in court, their bail money is refunded. In Coffeyville, however, bail money is used to pay attorneys fees and medical companies who are owed debt.
Tre Biggs was one of the individuals who found themselves on the receiving end of the law.
Biggs’ family suffered from numerous medical issues. His five-year-old son had leukemia and his wife, Heather, suffered from seizures related to Lyme disease.
“We had so many, multiple health issues in our family at the same time, it put us in a bracket that made insurance unattainable," Ms Biggs said in an interview with CBS News. "It would have made no sense. We would have had to have not eaten, not had a home."
When Mr Biggs failed to appear in court - at the time he was working two jobs, but still fell behind paying the family’s debt - he was sentenced to prison.
“I was scared to death. I’m a country kid, I had to strip down, get hosed and put on a jumpsuit,” he said. “You wouldn’t think you’d go to jail over medical bills.”
Mr Biggs said his family had access to “$50 to $100” at the time of his arrest. His bail was set at $500.
Nusrat Choudhury, the deputy director of the ACLU, said the county’s practice raises “serious constitutional concerns.”
“What’s happening here is a jailhouse shake-down for cash that is the criminalization of private debt,” he said.
Since the use of debtors exams in Coffeyville gained notoriety, Mr. Hassenplug’s Yelp page has been attacked by individuals who take exception to his methods. Outraged users have tanked his business rating to 1 star and have peppered his page with photos of faeces and other unpleasant images.
American horror
story
Seema
Verma: Americans ‘Fleeing’ Obamacare Exchanges ‘Sky-High’ Premiums
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS) Administrator Seema Verma said Monday that Americans continue to flee the
Obamacare exchanges because the “sky-high premiums” are too “unaffordable.”
American horror story
Elderly husband kills wife, then himself, in desperation over
skyrocketing healthcare costs
Patricia
Whitney-Jones and Brian Jones
A
younger photo of the couple
Though it is
unclear the magnitude of a mass migration of sick foreign nationals that could
be spurred by offering free healthcare to illegal aliens in the U.S., Breitbart
News has projected that such a
plan would cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars
Watch:
All Democratic Presidential Candidates Say They Would Give Health Insurance to
Illegal Aliens
Free
Health Care for Illegal Aliens Could Cost American Taxpayers up to $660B a
Decade
Providing free health care for all illegal
aliens living in the United States could cost American taxpayers an additional
$660 billion every decade in expenses.
Every 2020
Dem in Second Debate Supports Healthcare for Illegal Aliens
California’s $215
Billion Budget Includes Health Care for Illegal Aliens
California’s Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom
signed a $215 billion budget on Thursday, which includes taxpayer-funded health
care for illegal aliens.
New
York Post Cover on Democrats Promising Illegal Aliens Free Health Care: ‘Who
Wants to Lose the Election?’Drew Angerer/Getty Images
The Friday cover of the New York
Post mocks 2020 Democrat presidential hopefuls who vowed to
give free, taxpayer-funded health care to illegal immigrants.
Nolte:
Dems Promise to Take Away Our Health Insurance and Give It to Illegal Aliens
We will have to wait and see how and if the debates move the needle
within the Democrat primary. But what these last two nights have done is
clarify a Democrat Party that is bound and determined to confiscate our guns,
our money and our health insurance. Oh, and then Democrats are going to decriminalize
illegal immigration and give our health insurance to illegal aliens.
Fact
Check: U.S. Taxpayers Pay $18.5B a Year for Healthcare for Illegal Aliens
As 2020 Democrat presidential primary candidates advocate having
American taxpayers provide free health care for illegal aliens, U.S. citizens
are already paying billions every year for the expenditure.
Republican Lawmakers React
to $100 Million Budget Towards Medi-Cal for Illegal Aliens
Bill
Cassidy Proposes to Prevent Americans from Subsidizing Health Care for Illegal
Aliens
As California remains poised to adopt a bill
that would give full Medicaid benefits to illegal immigrants, Sen. Bill Cassidy
(R-LA) and other Senate Republicans proposed legislation to block leftist
states from forcing Americans to subsidize programs that expand benefits to
illegal immigrants.
Gavin
Newsom: GOP Headed ‘Into the Waste Bin of History’
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), one of the most
progressive governors in the country, predicts the Republican Party is headed
“into the waste bin of history.”
(LA
RAZA, DEM INVASION)
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Key Facts About California’s ‘Medicare for Illegals’ Plan
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Sullivan / Getty
The State of California is about to pass a new healthcare plan that
attempts to support and expand Obamacare, partly by providing free health care
to some adult illegal aliens.
Paying for illegals'
'free' health care by fining Californians who can't afford Obamacare
Leaving the Democrats
I
was brought up a military brat. My father did 22 years in the United
States Air Force. In 1954 when he joined, they promised if he made a
career of it, he and his wife, my mother, would be taken care of for life.
He got out in 1976 after extending his service a couple of extra
years so I would not have to switch high schools in Florida.
We
moved out west after my father retired and I finished high school. In
1978, I got a job in the wood products industry at a particleboard factory and
began work a schedule that just became normal to me. seven days on, two days
off, working nights, weekends, and most holidays. I wore “save the
whales” t-shirts at work.
The
industry came under attack because of environmental concerns for the spotted
owl. The lumber and wood products industry in the West was decimated over
the next 15-20 years. We tried to muster support from our government, but
our efforts fell on deaf ears. Eventually after 22 years, the facility I
worked at closed. The ability to do what we did, which was to recycle
sawdust and discarded wood into a usable product, became too expensive as we
had to go further and further away for our raw materials. The logging
industry was gone because of environmentalism and government policies to put
animal concerns ahead of humans.
The
spotted owl (the Mexican spotted owl in the southwest) was noted later on to
be mating with other ‘species’ of owls.
It
occurred to me if they can call an owl of a different color another species,
then this should be applied to humans. By a definition of species, we are
all our own species based on external color, size and shape, etc.. Why
were we not being looked after by our government in our lives? We paid
taxes and worked our butts off, only to be told we were killing the planet.
Where was the Human Protective Agency? Why was I paying taxes to have the
government pay bureaucrats to work against me?
In
the 90s, I watched the Clintons. Bill at that time seemed to be a pragmatist
but Hillary, the unelected first lady, tried to take over the healthcare
system. I saw it as a blatant power grab by an overly ambitious person in
government. By this time, we were well into the spotted owl era, and my
distaste for the government sticking its nose into our lives was huge. My
save the whales t-shirts were history long before this.
Now,
my parents were Roosevelt Democrats who fed on the nightly news:
Huntley-Brinkley, Walter Cronkite. That was the source for news. In
their minds, republicans were the evil ones trying to take away their VA
benefits promised to them in the 50’s. They believed the nightly news.
There was no internet, no counterpoint. When I reached adulthood,
we argued over politics a lot more than we should have. My Mother
actually believed the SPLC was a conservative organization. We believed
the same things really as she espoused conservative positions, but she thought
the Democrats had her back on it all. I swore to my mother I would never
vote for a party that would put a damn bird above a human.
It
has only gotten worse.
After
securing a job at a hospital, I watched ObamaCare tear through healthcare and
then almost immediately watched as our pension benefits were frozen as a result
of having to comply with new rules and regulations. My wife and I lost
3000 dollars a month in future retirement income as a result of her company
having to reorganize, and my pension is a private plan. Not a single Republican
voted for the ObamaCare scam. But hey, 70 million dollars later the hospital has EPIC.
My Chart anyone? I understand the CEO of that company has a lot of ties to Obama.
Hospitals
now have departments of people working just to make sure all of the I’s are
dotted and T’s crossed and the punctuation is correct just so we get paid for
taking care of those on Medicare and Medicaid. I can imagine on the other
end that the government bureaucracy has people just looking for mistakes and
ways not to pay out. It is really mindboggling.
I
watched my father get piss-poor treatment at the VA hospital, waiting months to
get appointments and then just handed more drugs. He struggled with
issues from Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam. He had back surgery there
without any physical therapy follow-up. He could not straighten out his
back to lie down or stand up straight after the surgery. He died in
2011 after having to live and sleep in his easy chair for years due to the
pain. I want to say he was taken care of for life as promised years before
without sounding sarcastic. But I can’t.
I
watched as my mother walked away from the Democrats. She quoted Reagan….
they left her. She voted for President Trump.
I
never went to college, I am totally self-taught. I am a doer of many
trades and master of none. I have had a great life in the greatest
country on earth. All along the way, the Democrats have stepped on me,
taxed me more, lied to me, called me names, and demand I give up my rights.
Democrats were the ones pushing environmental causes at the expense of
humans and government takeover of healthcare. They have mismanaged
everything they get their hands on, and then blame others for their own
deeds. I watch them lie and cheat and twist words. Democrats have
alienated their own base to the point they have to argue for foreigners to come
into this country illegally in order to vote for Democrats, mainly by calling
those of us opposed to this "racist."
In
all fairness, the weak Republicans in our government have hardly stood in their
way. But that is another day, another rant.
I
am now called racist, homophobic, misogynist, and Islamaphobic. A
gun-toting, Bible-believing bitter clinger. A deplorable. A white
nationalist. Nazi. I can’t remember all of my Democrat party subtitles.
But
I am middle class. I have been given nothing by our government and have given
too much to it. And it always wants more, telling me I have to pay my
fair share. It is a sad state when you get to a point in life of maximum
dollars earned that it is taken away by higher tax brackets and the loss of
deductions.
I
will never vote for anyone advocating for more government control. Or for
anyone who is trying to denigrate me by name-calling or label-making. The
reason is my life.
American horror
story
Seema
Verma: Americans ‘Fleeing’ Obamacare Exchanges ‘Sky-High’ Premiums
Rhona
Wise/AFP/Getty Images
12 Aug 2019152
3:20
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS) Administrator Seema Verma said Monday that Americans continue to flee the
Obamacare exchanges because the “sky-high premiums” are too “unaffordable.”
The CMS released two reports Monday
that found that
Obamacare enrollment remainedsteady in both 2018 and 2019, while average 2019 exchange
premiums declined by a small degree.
However, Obamacare state exchanges faced significant challenges
for Americans that do not qualify for the Obamacare advance premium tax credit
(APTC) and must pay the entire health insurance premium themselves. One study
found that, between 2016 and 2018, 2.5 million Americans without Obamacare
subsidies left the exchanges, which represents a 40 percent drop.
Administrator Verma said that the current exodus proves that
Obamacare’s premiums remain too expensive for millions of Americans.
“As President Trump predicted, people are fleeing the individual
market. Obamacare is failing the American people, and the ongoing exodus of the
unsubsidized population from the market proves that Obamacare’s sky-high
premiums are unaffordable,” said Verma in a statement Monday.
The CMS’s Subsidized and Unsubsidized Enrollment Report
showcases that the Obamacare exchanges continue to price Americans out of the
individual health insurance markets. In 2017, 1.3 million unsubsidized
Americans left the exchanges, while another 1.2 million left the market in
2018. Both of these enrollment declines coincide with increases of average
monthly premium increases of 21 percent in2017 and 26 percent in 2018.
Americans began to leave the Obamacare exchanges starting in the
2015 to 2016 period for unsubsidized American enrollees. Further, 43 states saw
decreases in unsubsidized enrollment from 2016 to 2017, and 47 states saw a
decline from 2017 to 2018. In 2018, nine states, including Iowa, Georgia,
Nebraska, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, and West Virginia,
lost more 40 percent of their unsubsidized enrollment.
While Obamacare remains too expensive for many Americans,
the Trump administration has pursued healthcare reforms that would offer
Americans more affordable alternatives to Obamacare.
The White House released a rule in
June that would expand health reimbursement accounts (HRAs) that would allow
small businesses to offer health insurance to their employees. The
administration estimates that up to 800,000 employers, and more than 11 million
workers and family members, will benefit from the healthcare expansion.
The Trump administration also
expanded short-term health insurance plans. The Foundation for Government
Accountability (FGA) study found that short-term
plans could cost 80 percent less than Obamacare “bronze” plans.
Trump’s latest healthcare
reform arises as he promised
Republicans will become the party of “health care” and that the White House reportedly will release their health care plan in September.
American horror story
Elderly husband kills wife, then himself, in desperation over
skyrocketing healthcare costs
At 8:23 a.m. on
Wednesday morning, 77-year-old Brian S. Jones called the Whatcom County
Sheriff’s Office near his home north of Seattle, Washington, and told the
dispatcher, “I am going to shoot myself.” There was a note, he told
dispatchers, which would explain everything. “We will be in the front bedroom,”
he said, before hanging up the phone.
This was the final
scene in a horror story that exposes the cruelty and criminality of American
capitalism.
Shortly after hanging
up, Jones took a pistol and aimed it at his 76-year-old wife’s head, firing
once and killing her. He then turned the gun on himself and pulled the trigger
three times.
When police arrived,
they surrounded the home and attempted to contact the residents via
loudspeaker. After sending a robot-mounted camera into the home, they found
their bodies lying side by side.
Police found the notes,
which explained what had happened. Jones’ wife, Patricia Whitney-Jones,
suffered from serious health problems, and the couple could not afford medical
care. Jones, an apparent Navy veteran, wrote directions as to how police could
contact their next of kin. Police found the couple’s two dogs and turned them
over to the Humane Society.
The home was not
located in a forgotten, impoverished area but in a semi-rural neighborhood near
the Cascade Mountains where homes are valued in the $400,000 range. The bottom
90 percent of people in “the richest country in the world” are living under
financial hardship that varies only in terms of degree.
The couple’s next-door
neighbor, Sherrie Schulteis, told local news website My Ferndale News:
“This was our dear
neighbor and all of us on Timmerman Lane are totally shocked as this man drove
by everyday with his dog hanging out the car window. We talked often and knew
his wife was very ill with Alzheimer’s. We all wished he would have said
something, because we could have helped him and put him in touch with people
could help them. Please anyone in this situation, you can call to start looking
for help. He never seemed depressed, nor did he speak of anything he was going
through. He also would walk his dog often down our tiny dead end street.”
This was apparently not
the first time tragedy had struck the residential road located just a few
minutes east of Interstate 5. Schulteis further noted:
“But here is the
horribleness of this whole thing, less than 6 months ago our across the street
neighbor shot himself, a young man with PTSD [Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder],
cops and SWAT all lined our street then too. He was young—in his 50’s— and this
guy and the whole block knew and saw him riding his bike, or walking his tiny
dog also. He lived directly across from our house and we talked with him
everyday as we were outside a lot. We had no idea his PTSD would kick in and he
started believing everyone was someone else and he was going to kill everyone.”
This man, Schulteis
explained, was evidently also a military veteran: “The other veteran he lived
with called the police and when the man saw the police approaching the house he
shot himself. So, in 8 little houses on this road we have had this happen. I do
go up and hug strangers after talking with them, I do everything I can, I love
our human race, but sometimes we can’t do everything. We check on our
neighbors, watch after their houses. I myself I feel so guilty, could I have
done more?”
No, Schulteis is not to
blame for the horrors corporate America and imperialist war have wrought on her
quiet country block. Blame for the unnecessary deaths of Brian Jones and
Patricia Whitney-Jones lies squarely at the feet of America’s healthcare
profiteers, their bought-for politicians and a capitalist system which
guarantees the power of corporations to kill people like the Joneses for
profit.
According to the
National Institute of Health, the average American over the age of 65 pays
$3,000 in out-of-pocket healthcare costs per year, eating up over 40 percent of
all social security payments. Studies show this is only expected to worsen. By
2030, 42 percent of Medicare beneficiaries will spend at least 20 percent of
their total income on out-of-pocket healthcare costs.
As costs skyrocket, the
ruling class complains that elderly people live too long and that their
pensions and Medicare payouts cost corporations and governments too much money.
One 2019 publication from the International Labor Organization laments:
“Population ageing adds
another burden to the sustainability of existing social protection systems. The
tax base may erode as the labour force decreases and expenditures for pensions
and care services increase. In particular, health-care costs tend to increase
when populations grow older since the elderly use more services and require
more expensive treatment. For example, in the United States, increasing life
expectancy is projected to lead to an increase from 15 to 29 per cent of GDP in
health expenditures by 2040. Moreover, provisions for the elderly are expected
to increase and be used for longer periods of time, which may overwhelm the
pension system in the absence of later retirement ages or increased taxation.”
The moves in ruling
circles to force elderly people to die sooner was expressed most bluntly by
Ezekiel Emanuel, brother to former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who wrote
a 2014 Atlantic article titled “Why I Hope to Die at 75.”
In the article, Emanuel
complains that Americans are obsessed with efforts to “cheat death and prolong
life as long as possible.” He advocates against what he calls a “manic
desperation to endlessly extend life” which unnecessarily costs corporations
money. He complains that advanced healthcare has “slowed the dying process.”
Whichever government
agency or corporation was responsible for the Joneses health has succeeded in
achieving what the for-profit system demands. And that agency or company will
mark the couples’ death by removing any payments it owed to cover Patricia’s
Alzheimer’s treatment from the expenses section of their balance sheet.
For over a century,
Americans have employed the popular phrase “keeping up with the Joneses” to
signify the struggle to appear as upwardly mobile as the family next-door. The
deaths of Brian Jones and Patricia Whitney-Jones symbolize the harsh reality of
capitalism today. For hundreds of millions in the US today, “keeping up with
the Joneses” just means staying alive.
Who's coming in and getting that
instant customer service legal immigrants don't get? Well, people like Mirian
Zelaya Gomez, a single mom with two kids and a fondness for Instagram
luxury-life glamour shots who got her name in the news
as "Lady Frijoles," the Honduran caravan migrant who
disdained donated Mexican food in Tijuana, and who told the press she was
migrating to the states to get free medical care for her kids. She's
since been arrested for assaulting a relative who had given her
housing in Dallas. Here she was, being booked:
When California raises
taxes to pay for foreigners' healthcare, it weighs down on the federal budget
because state and local taxes are partly deductible from federal income taxes.
The rest of the country must subsidize more than $100 billion of spending by
the Utopians in Sacramento.
Though it is
unclear the magnitude of a mass migration of sick foreign nationals that could
be spurred by offering free healthcare to illegal aliens in the U.S., Breitbart
News has projected that such a
plan would cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars
The promise of
unlimited free stuff from the government isn't just an unfunded liability. It’s
also a magnet for illegal immigration. California already faces a border catastrophe. In the past year, its
San Diego and El Centro border sectors have seen respective increases of 611%
and 345% in family unit apprehensions. MediCal expansion creates incentives
that will make that problem much worse.
California has covered
illegal immigrant children since 2016 under MediCal, the state’s version of
Medicaid, at a cost of some
$360 million. Now Gov. Gavin Newsom has agreed with state lawmakers to
add another $98 million to California's spending by expanding coverage to young
adults.
The California dream of
taking care of everyone's needs is undermined by the California dream of open
borders. State lawmakers were forced to choose between them, and they chose
open borders. One must hope that one day the state's voters choose different
lawmakers.
"Eligibility
would be determined by the same rules of Medicaid,
based on annual
income. As many young illegals are working
off the books,
for cash, they will have no official reported
income
regardless of how much they actually earn, insuring their
eligibility for
Medi-Cal." BRIAN C. JOONEPH
Watch:
All Democratic Presidential Candidates Say They Would Give Health Insurance to
Illegal Aliens
The 10 Democrat candidates
participating in Thursday night’s presidential debate were unanimous in their
response when asked to raise their hands if their government-run health care
plan would cover illegal aliens.
Every candidate on stage raised
his or her hand when asked:
“A lot of you have been talking
about government health care plans you proposed in one form or another. This is
a show of hands question and hold them up so people can see. Raise your hand if
your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants.”
The 10 Democrats participating in
Thursday's debate were:
- Joe Biden,
- Rep. Eric Swalwell,
- Sen. Michael Bennet,
- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand,
- Sen. Kamala Harris,
- Sen. Bernie Sanders,
- Mayor Pete Buttigieg,
- Andrew Yang,
- John Hickenlooper,
- Marianne Williamson
Free
Health Care for Illegal Aliens Could Cost American Taxpayers up to $660B a
Decade
AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee
JOHN BINDER
28 Jun 20196,634
3:35
Providing free health care for all illegal
aliens living in the United States could cost American taxpayers an additional
$660 billion every decade in expenses.
This week, half of the 24 Democrats running for their party’s presidential nomination
confirmed that their healthcare plans would provide free health care to all
illegal aliens at the expense of American taxpayers — including former Vice
President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA),
Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).
Center for Immigration Studies
Director of Research Steven Camarotta told Breitbart News that only rough
estimates are available for what health care for illegal aliens will cost
American taxpayers, and though a comprehensive study has yet to be conducted on
this specific issue, taxpayers can expect to pay a “significant” amount.
“If we offered Medicaid for illegal
immigrants, it is possible the costs could be over tens of billions of
dollars,” Camarotta said. “However, it would depend on eligibility criteria as
well as how many illegal immigrants actually sign up for program once it was
offered. So while the actual costs are uncertain, the size would be significant
for taxpayers.”
Every
2020 Democrat in Second Debate Supports Taxpayer-Funded Healthcare for Illegal
Alienshttps://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/27/every-2020-democrat-in-second-debate-supports-taxpayer-funded-healthcare-for-illegal-aliens/ …
Every 2020
Dem in Second Debate Supports Healthcare for Illegal Aliens
A reasonable estimate of health care
for each illegal alien, Camarotta said, is about $3,000 — about half the
average $6,600 that it currently costs annually for each Medicaid recipient.
This assumes that a number of illegal aliens already have health insurance
through employers and are afforded free health care today when they arrive to
emergency rooms.
Based on this estimate, should the
full 22 million illegal aliens be living in the U.S. that Yale University and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have estimated there to be,
providing health care for the total illegal population could cost American
taxpayers about $66 billion a year.
Over a decade, based on the Yale estimate
of the illegal population and assuming all sign up for free health care, this
would cost American taxpayers about $660 billion.
Even if there are only 11 million
illegal aliens living in the U.S., as the Pew Research Center and other
analysts routinely estimate, American taxpayers would still have to pay a
yearly bill of $33 billion a year to provide them all with free, subsidized
health care.
Should only half of the illegal
population get health care, it would cost American taxpayers about $16.5 billion
a year — almost the price of what it currently costs taxpayers to provide
subsidized health care to illegal aliens.
Today, Americans are forced to
subsidize about $18.5 billion worth of
yearly medical costs for illegal aliens living in the U.S., according to
estimates by Chris Conover, formerly of the Center for Health Policy and
Inequalities Research at Duke University.
Nearly every Democrat running for
their party’s presidential nomination has endorsed having American taxpayers
pay for free health care for illegal aliens. Those who have endorsed the plan
include Biden, Sanders, Gillibrand, Buttigieg, and Harris, along with Sen.
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), former Housing and Urban
Development Secretary Julian Castro, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), Sen. Michael
Bennet (D-CO), author Marianne Williamson, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA),
entrepreneur Andrew Yang, and Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-CO).
California’s $215
Billion Budget Includes Health Care for Illegal Aliens
Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
KATHERINE RODRIGUEZ
29 Jun 2019109
1:42
California’s Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom
signed a $215 billion budget on Thursday, which includes taxpayer-funded health
care for illegal aliens.
Newsom signed the massive $214.8 billion
funding bill into law, which includes a provision that would expand health care
for people who are illegally in the U.S. and penalizes people who do not
purchase health insurance, the Los
Angeles Times reported.
The California Democrat had proposed expanding
health care for illegal aliens long before he took office.
In an August 2018 interview, Newsom
said he would use an executive order to give universal health care to those
residing in the U.S. illegally. Once Newsom took office in January, he proposed expanding
Medi-Cal, the state version of Medicaid, to illegal aliens up to 26 years old.
The plan sailed through
California’s Democrat-controlled legislature, although there were concerns over
how much money the state should provide for expanding Medi-Cal for low-income
illegal aliens.
Newsom proposed that $98 million in the budget should go to
expanding taxpayer-funded health care for illegal aliens between 19 and 25
years old, but one state Assembly bill proposed setting aside $3.4 billion to
cover all illegal aliens over 19 years old.
The bill is Newsom’s first budget since he took office in
January, largely helped along by a $21.5 billion surplus carrying over
from his fellow Democrat, former Gov. Jerry Brown’s, administration.
New
York Post Cover on Democrats Promising Illegal Aliens Free Health Care: ‘Who
Wants to Lose the Election?’Drew Angerer/Getty Images
KYLE MORRIS
27 Jun 2019408
1:27
The Friday cover of the New York
Post mocks 2020 Democrat presidential hopefuls who vowed to
give free, taxpayer-funded health care to illegal immigrants.
The New York Post cover title,
which features five of the presidential hopefuls raising their hands at the
second night of the first Democrat presidential debate, reads: “Who wants to
lose the election?”
The cover’s subtitle reads, “All major Dem candidates raise
hand in favor of free health care for illegal immigs.”
Featured from left to right on the cover are South Bend Mayor
Pete Buttigieg, former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen.
Kamala Harris (D-CA), and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).
As reported by Breitbart News’s
John Binder, “During the second Democrat presidential primary debate on
Thursday, every Democrat candidate said they supported giving American
taxpayer-funded health care to all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in
the United States.”
Binder also reported, “Americans pay about $116 billion to
subsidize illegal aliens living in the U.S. — providing them with free
education, free healthcare, and public benefits.”
Nolte:
Dems Promise to Take Away Our Health Insurance and Give It to Illegal Aliens
JOHN NOLTE
28 Jun 20198,096
3:54
We will have to wait and see how and if the debates move the needle
within the Democrat primary. But what these last two nights have done is
clarify a Democrat Party that is bound and determined to confiscate our guns,
our money and our health insurance. Oh, and then Democrats are going to decriminalize
illegal immigration and give our health insurance to illegal aliens.
That is my long way of saying
President Trump was the winner of the Democrat debates, because he is the only
person standing between us and this:
- Tax increases.
- Gun confiscations.
- Slave reparations
- Decriminalize illegal immigration.
- No more deporting of illegal immigrants.
- Abolish the private health insurance currently held by
over 150 million Americans.
- Give free health insurance to illegal immigrants.
Three of the four Democrat
front-runners, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders have
committed to abolishing our private health insurance plans.
Almost all of the candidates,
including those listed above, support forcing law-abiding taxpayers to pay
slave reparations.
Every single candidate raised their
hand Thursday night, including Joe Biden, when asked if they would offer free
health care to illegal aliens.
And all of them, every one of them,
promised to stop deportations, this includes Biden — who is supposed to be the
sanest of the bunch.
“Should someone who is here without
documents, and that is his only offense, should that person be deported?”
Diaz-Balart asked Biden.
Biden’s answer was clear, “That
person should not be the focus of deportation. We should fundamentally change
the way we deal with things.”
Harris was even more strident:
“Absolutely not, they should not be deported.”
Buttigieg: “That criminalization,
that is the basis for family separation. You do away with that, it’s no longer
possible. Of course it wouldn’t be possible anyway in my presidency, because it
is dead wrong.”
Man alive.
Oh, and then there is legalizing
abortion right up until birth at taxpayer’s expense — which the sane one,
Biden, also supports.
This kind of “take” is now something
of a cliché, but how did President Trump not win last night’s debate, when he
will almost certainly be up against a Democrat who has promised to raise taxes,
open the border, give illegal aliens he will not deport free welfare benefits
for life, and decriminalize entering the country illegally while criminalizing
gun ownership?
Not
to belabor this point, but Biden is supposed to be the sane one, correct? And
yet, he went on the record Thursday night promising to outlaw every
gun that is not a smart gun, meaning every gun that only
operates when it reads the owner’s handprints, meaning every single gun being sold today.
“No gun should be able to be sold
unless your biometric measure could pull that trigger. It’s within our right to
do that. We can do that. Our enemy is the gun manufacturers, not the NRA, the
gun manufacturers,” Biden said.
So much for that housewife being
able to fire off a couple of shotgun blasts to scare away an intruder. If her
husband or son owns that gun, she will have to use it as a club.
The Democrat Party’s vision for
America, and I say this without exaggeration, is one where floods of illegal
aliens can legally enter our country to enjoy free health and welfare benefits
for life while American citizens are stripped of their health insurance, not
allowed to defend themselves, forced to pay slave reparations, and hit with massive
tax increases to pay for other people’s student loans.
How will our hospitals, doctors, and
schools handle this influx of millions of illegals?
Only Trump stands between us and
this madness.
While it is true that not many
people are paying attention right now, what is also true is that these video
clips, quotes, and positions will live on forever, are now cemented in the 2020
election.
Fact
Check: U.S. Taxpayers Pay $18.5B a Year for Healthcare for Illegal Aliens
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JOHN BINDER
27 Jun 20193,321
3:05
As 2020 Democrat presidential primary candidates advocate having
American taxpayers provide free health care for illegal aliens, U.S. citizens
are already paying billions every year for the expenditure.
During
the second night of debates for the 2020 Democrat presidential primary
candidates, every
Democrat — including Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and
Pete Buttigieg — said they supported having American taxpayers pay for free
health care for all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the country.
The latest research by Chris Conover
from the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at Duke University
reveals that every year, American taxpayers pay nearly $20 billion for
healthcare for illegal aliens.
Current federal policy is to
prohibit federal tax funding of health care to unauthorized immigrants through
either Medicaid or Obamacare. Nevertheless, rough estimates suggest that
the nation’s 3.9 million uninsured immigrants who are unauthorized likely
receive about $4.6 billion in health services paid for by federal taxes, $2.8
billion in health services financed by state and local taxpayers, another $3.0
bankrolled through “cost-shifting” i.e., higher payments by insured patients to
cover hospital uncompensated care losses, and roughly $1.5 billion in physician
charity care. [Emphasis added]
In addition to these amounts, unauthorized
immigrants likely benefit from at least $0.9 billion in implicit federal
subsidies due to the tax exemption for nonprofit hospitals and another $5.7
billion in tax expenditures from the employer tax exclusion. [Emphasis
added]
All
told, Americans cross-subsidize health care for unauthorized immigrants
to the tune of $18.5 billion a year. Of this total, federal taxpayers
provided $11.2 billion in subsidized care to unauthorized immigrants in 2016.
[Emphasis added]
Analysis conducted by the Federation for American
Immigration Reform (FAIR) finds that American taxpayers are forced to federally
subsidize about $17.14 billion every year in free medical coverage for illegal
aliens and about $12.17 billion in state medical costs for illegal aliens.
On the federal level, Americans pay
about $1.2 billion for illegal alien births through Medicaid, about $3.4
billion for annual Medicaid fraud by illegal aliens, and about $4.2 billion for
Medicaid births by the U.S-born children of illegal aliens.
Every
year, Americans are forced to pay about $116 billion in
total expenses for the millions of illegal aliens living in the U.S.
Republican Lawmakers React
to $100 Million Budget Towards Medi-Cal for Illegal Aliens
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s first budget, estimated at $213 billion,
has set aside nearly $100 million for illegal immigrants residing in the state,
ages 19-25, to receive Medi-Cal coverage.
The Medi-Cal extension will make California
the first state to provide health insurance for illegal aliens.
Supporters of the move, such as president
and CEO of the non-profit organization California Health Care Foundation,
Sandra R. Hernandez, MD, said it was only one small step in a vast progressive
movement to provide health care to all Californians.
“While today is surely a moment worth
celebrating, we must also acknowledge the work ahead,” said Hernandez in a statement. “We must find a way
to cover all Californians, including the low-income undocumented adults and
seniors who remain ineligible for Medi-Cal.”
Jay Obernolte (R-Big Bear Lake), California
Assemblyman for the 33rd District and vice chair of the Budget Committee told
The Epoch Times that he’s not in favor of using Californians’ tax dollars in
this way.
“The big problem with the expansion of Medi-Cal
is that we are already failing in our commitment to the Californians who are on
that program,” he said.
“I represent a fairly rural part of the
state. [Many of] my constituents are unable to access Medi-Cal when they are
ill. So many physicians in my district are unable to accept the low
reimbursement rates that are provided under Medi-Cal. You need a very large
practice as a doctor to accept those reimbursement rates, and I don’t have many
physicians [in my district] that are able to. When my constituents get sick,
even though technically they’re covered, they can’t see a doctor.”
Obernolte argued that the state has an
obligation to fix these problems before addressing healthcare for illegal
aliens.
“We are trying to do what’s best, from a
public policy standpoint for the people who already live here,” he said.
While Obernolte voiced his disagreement
with the legislature’s passage of this provision, he did point out that many
liberal lawmakers did not get everything they wanted.
“They were seeking to expand Medi-Cal
eligibility to senior undocumented immigrants and that is something that the
governor did not agree to,” he said.
When asked how his constituents felt about
the budget allocations, Obernolte said they were overwhelmingly opposed to it.
“People [are] concerned about the overall
costs, and [there are] constituents that are unconvinced that providing
services to people who aren’t here legally is a good use of taxpayer
resources,” he said.
The state budget, which also includes an
individual mandate on health insurance, would obligate residents in the state
to purchase health insurance. This measure was enacted as a means of countering
Congressional Republicans’ removal of the national individual mandate portion
of the Affordable Care Act in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Revenue from this statewide mandate would
be used to fund insurance premium subsidies for middle income people, including
illegal aliens residing in the state.
State Senator John Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa)
also weighed in on the controversial budget proposal.
“I am an immigrant,” he told The Epoch
Times. “I came here in 1960 from the Netherlands. I am one of those legislators
that tend to get a little offended when those that have not come through the
front door are receiving benefits from the state.”
Moorlach further weighed in on the costs to
the taxpayer as a result of this provision being enacted.
“The federal government has failed
miserably at controlling our borders and now we have [these individuals] here
and they are in our hospitals, in our emergency rooms. We have an industry that
has been [weighed down] by subsidizing undocumented individuals. I understand
maybe helping out a hospital association, but I think it’s a little offensive
to most citizens that this is the approach that the governor wants to take.”
When asked about whether this allocation of
Medi-Cal would attract more illegal immigration, Moorlach believed it possibly
would.
“The question is Governor Newsom doing this
out of exasperation or is he doing this [to try and] be hospitable to anybody
that walks through the door? I tend to think it’s the latter, and that’s why
it’s frustrating to my constituents. We’ve been getting a lot of calls from
constituents arguing against medical benefits
for undocumented immigrants.”
When asked as to whether this provision
would add to the debt, Senator Moorlach pointed out that Betty Yee, the state’s
Controller, highlighted the significant increase in the state deficit for this
fiscal year.
“In the middle of the budget conference
committee meetings, the State Controller, Betty Yee, released the comprehensive annual financial reportfor the year end of June 30th 2018. It was
finally completed in the middle of June, a year later. [The report] will show
you that the retiree medical liability for health benefits for state employees
has increased by $44 billion and our unrestricted net deficit went up from
$169.5 billion to $213 billion. The state not only this last week approved the
largest budget in its history, but it’s also been notified that its
unrestricted net deficit is also the largest in its history as well,” he said.
Moorlach also shed light on the statewide
individual mandate and as to whether the penalty citizens will have to pay for
not being insured will go towards paying for illegal aliens’ insurance.
“Ironically that seems to be the case,” he
responded.
Senator Moorlach suggested that instead of
being obstructive towards D.C., Sacramento should try to find the middle ground
on this issue. “I think what the Governor should really be focused on is not
just being antagonistic to the President, but maybe sending a blue-ribbon
committee to work with D.C. to figure out how to get a pathway to citizenship.”
Governor Newsom’s budget was passed on June
13, sending it to Newsom for his signature. The Senate vote was 29-11, and the
Assembly approved it 60-15, largely along party lines.
Bill
Cassidy Proposes to Prevent Americans from Subsidizing Health Care for Illegal
Aliens
SEAN MORAN
16 Jun 20196,195
4:02
As California remains poised to adopt a bill
that would give full Medicaid benefits to illegal immigrants, Sen. Bill Cassidy
(R-LA) and other Senate Republicans proposed legislation to block leftist
states from forcing Americans to subsidize programs that expand benefits to
illegal immigrants.
The bill would offer illegal
aliens full Medicaid benefits as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to create a
universal healthcare system.
Sens. Cassidy, John Barrasso (R-WY),
Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), David
Perdue (R-GA), and Roger Wicker (R-MS) introduced the Protect Medicaid Act (S. 131) to ensure that leftist
states cannot bilk Medicaid to subsidize programs that expand Medicaid benefits
to illegal immigrants.
Federal law prevents illegal
immigrants from receiving Medicaid; however, states such as California exploit a
loophole by using state funds to extend Medicaid benefits to illegal
aliens. Newsom’s plan could allow up to 90,000 illegal immigrants to
receive Medicaid coverage. California plans to use an exploit to offset the new
expansion using Medicaid — roughly $24 million of the
$98 million in the first year will be offset in the first year.
$98 million in the first year will be offset in the first year.
Sen. Cassidy’s Protect Medicaid Act prohibits states from using
federal money to administer state Medicaid benefits, paid for by Americans
citizens, to illegal immigrants. If a state such as California chooses to give
Medicaid benefits to illegal aliens, the Lousiana senator’s bill stipulates
that the state does so on its budget.
Sen Cassidy said in a statement Sunday:
Governor Newsom’s plan is a giant magnet for more illegal
immigration, and it will hurt California citizens who depend on Medicaid.
Simple math says you can’t add the entire population of another country to
Medicaid and still take care of the American citizens who need it. In addition,
the plan is unfair to vulnerable Americans and it’s not fair to middle-class
families paying taxes—taking care of them should be our priority. Compassion
that cannot be sustained is not compassion.
Sen. Cassidy’s legislation also requires the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) to review and
report on:
- How states that provide Medicaid
benefits to illegal immigrants keep federal and state dollars separate.
- Whether states providing health benefits
to illegal aliens use budget gimmicks to bilk the federal government, such
as provider taxes and intergovernmental transfers, to launder federal
dollars to offset the cost of providing benefits to this population.
- Whether illegal immigrants benefit from
covered outpatient drugs purchased under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program
and the 340B program, and whether this impacts the prices American
citizens pay.
“Tennesseans and the American people do not want their tax
dollars subsidizing Medicaid for illegal immigrants,” Sen. Blackburn said. “At
a time when Medicaid is being stretched to the breaking point, the last thing
we need are liberal states like California circumventing federal law to give
those dollars to illegals at the expense of vulnerable American citizens.”
“This is absolutely outrageous and only underscores the fact that
California continues to put politics over the safety and security of American
citizens,” said Sen. Perdue. “Ultimately, this kind of abuse of entitlement
programs contributes to our $21 trillion debt crisis. We will not stand idly by
and watch California and other sanctuary states skirt federal law to dole out
taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal aliens.”
“Medicaid is an important program for millions of
patients,” said Sen. Barrasso. “Congress must focus on improving care for
Americans in need. Taxpayers need to know that their hard-earned money is not
expanding health care for illegal immigrants.”
Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News.
Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.
Gavin
Newsom: GOP Headed ‘Into the Waste Bin of History’
JOSHUA CAPLAN
17 Jun 20191,421
2:40
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), one of the most
progressive governors in the country, predicts the Republican Party is headed
“into the waste bin of history.”
In an interview released Monday
with Politico, Newsom
drew comparisons between the GOP in California during the 1990s and the
national Republican Party today, saying that the latter will soon see its power
evaporate as it did in the Golden State in the last twenty years.
Republicans “are into the politics
of what California was into in the 1990s… and they’ll go the same direction —
into the waste bin of history, the way Republicans of the ’90s have gone.
That’s exactly what will happen to this crop of national Republicans,”
Newsom said.
“America in 2019 is California in
the 1990s,” the governor continued. “The xenophobia,
the nativism, the fear of ‘the other.’ Scapegoating. Talking down or past
people. The hysteria. And so, we’re not going to put up with that. We are going
to push back.”
Newsom reaffirmed his support for
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) in the 2020 Democrat presidential primary, though
when asked if plans to hit the campaign on her behalf, he tersely replied: “I’m
campaigning for her right now, it sounds like.”
According to the California
governor, Harris has “consistently been in the top five, that’s an
extraordinary achievement with eight months to go before the first vote is
cast.’’ Newsome said he believes the senator
“has shown a successful ability to navigate the white waters…and continue to be
part of the conversation against powerhouses — Sanders, Biden, and some of the
most well-known brands in American politics.”
During the course of the interview,
the California Democrat attacked President Donald Trump on multiple occasions,
while dishing out praise for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). “What’s so
remarkable about someone with the experience and temperament of Speaker Pelosi
is that she’s seen a lot of movies,’’ said Newsom. “She’s been
there. She’s got a better sense than a lot of folks. So I think we should stay
the course. What we’re doing is working … I think Democrats are winning right
now.”
His
remarks come as California’s Democrat-led legislature voted to
move forward with a $213 billion plan to use taxpayer dollars to fund free
healthcare for illegal aliens. Under the plan, illegals with an annual income
of $17,000 between ages 19 and 25 years are eligible to join the state’s
Medicaid program
Who's coming in and
getting that instant customer service legal immigrants don't get? Well, people
like Mirian Zelaya Gomez, a single mom with two kids and a fondness for
Instagram luxury-life glamour shots who got her
name in the news as "Lady Frijoles," the
Honduran caravan migrant who disdained donated Mexican food in Tijuana,
and who told the press she was migrating to the states to get free medical
care for her kids. She's since been arrested for assaulting a relative
who had given her housing in Dallas. Here she was, being booked:
Where
To Go When Your Local Emergency Room Goes Bankrupt?"
*
During
the past ten years 84 California hospitals have declared bankruptcy and closed
their Emergency Rooms forever.
Financially crippled by legislative and judicial mandates to treat
illegal aliens have bankrupted hospitals!
In 2010, in Los Angeles County alone, over 2 million illegal aliens
recorded visits to county emergency rooms for both routine and emergency
care. Per official figures, the cost is
$1,000 dollars for every taxpayer in Los Angeles County.
(LA
RAZA, DEM INVASION)
THE CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY
The Democrat Party’s
secret agenda for wider open borders, more welfare for invading illegals, more
jobs and free anything they illegally vote for…. All to destroy the two-party
system and build the GLOBALISTS’ DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR WIDER OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP
WAGES DEPRESSED.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/frontpage-hidden-agenda-of-pueblo-sin.html
Demonstrably and
irrefutably the Democrat Party became the party whose principle objective is to
thoroughly transform the nature of the American electorate by means of open
borders and the mass, unchecked importation of illiterate third world peasants
who will vote in overwhelming numbers for Democrats and their La Raza welfare
state. FRONTPAGE MAG
3
Key Facts About California’s ‘Medicare for Illegals’ Plan
JOEL B. POLLAK
16 Jun 2019218
2:28
The State of California is about to pass a new healthcare plan that
attempts to support and expand Obamacare, partly by providing free health care
to some adult illegal aliens.
The new plan
is covered in a budget passed last week, as Politico
reported Sunday. It has been the top priority of the new government
of Governor Gavin Newson, whose first act as governor was to propose using
Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, to cover “young undocumented adults.”
There are three things to know about the forthcoming plan.
1.
California will become the first state to provide free health care to illegal
alien adults. California
already provides Medi-Cal to the children of illegal aliens up to age 19. The
new plan is estimated to cover 90,000 people
at a cost of $98 million annually. The new benefits create a new incentive for
illegal aliens to come to the country and to California in particular, which
already has nearly
a quarter of
the nation’s illegal alien population (but only 12% of the total
population).
2.
California will restore the individual mandate in Obamacare. Californians will face a
penalty if they fail to purchase health insurance — the same penalty that
President Donald Trump and the GOP eliminated in their tax reform of 2017. As
Jon Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association told Politico, that means
legal residents will be forced to subsidize illegal aliens.
3. Even
California can’t afford “Medicare for All.” The California plan is
ambitious: as Fox News reported, “Families of four earning
as much as $150,500 a year would get help paying monthly health insurance
premiums.” But even far-left California does not go as far as providing
“Medicare for All,” despite the fact that Democrats want such a plan (and
even passed one in the California
State Senate in 2017). The problem: even California cannot figure out how to
pay for the proposal.
Joel B.
Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the 2018
Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How
Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from
Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Paying for illegals'
'free' health care by fining Californians who can't afford Obamacare
The
leftists running California's one-party state have done it again. They've
rolled out a $312 billion budget that includes $98 million
for free health care for illegal immigrants under the age of 26.
That's a dinner triangle to all able-bodied foreign nationals working
off the books that the free ride is about to arrive.
The
expansion will take effect Jan. 1, 2020 and cost $98 million in the upcoming
fiscal year. It will make California the first state to allow undocumented
adults to sign up for state-funded health coverage.
The budget
includes a fine on people who don’t buy health
insurance known as an individual mandate. The fines were initially implemented
as part of the federal Affordable Care Act law known as Obamacare, but
Republicans acted in 2017 to roll them back. Newsom and legislative leaders say
re-imposing the penalty at the state level will shore up the state’s health
insurance marketplace and keep premiums from rising dramatically.
As
if that $98 million is really going to cover it as migrants from Central
America and beyond surge into the U.S. in record numbers, and five million
from Latin America alone planning to enter the
U.S. with or without papers.
California,
remember, was quite convinced $39 billion would
cover the cost of its famed bullet train up and down the state in 2008. The
price tag now, with just a tiny portion of it out in the Central
Valley to be built? $98 billion.
Given
the incompetence of those numbers, you can bet the surplus that the money
is about to be taken from is ... not going to remain a surplus.
All
this, while the burned-out city of Paradise remains
un-rebuilt due to all the state's environmental concerns. Priorities,
see...
But
it's not just that which makes the measure so objectionable.
The
free health care - and Medi-Cal is very, very, free, with no deductibles for
anything - is going to be paid for out of a new program of fines for California
citizens who don't qualify for free health care, yet can't afford Obamacare -
quite possibly due to the high cost they are paying for keeping a roof over
their heads, for one.
The
Associated Press reports that the few Republican legislators remaining
have tried to make exactly that point in their objections:
Republicans
on the legislative committee negotiating the budget voted against the proposal,
arguing it was not fair to give health benefits to people who are in the
country illegally while taxing people who are here legally for not purchasing
health insurance.
A
subsidy program is going into place, supposedly to "help" them, but
you can bet it won't cover the average Californian who can't afford Obamacare.
As for the illegals, well, when you work off the books, you can pretty well
claim anything as your income, so rest assured that all those who want the free
health care, no matter what they earn, are going to be able to get it.
So
what we are about to see now is the fining of Californians trapped in the high
cost of living brought on by leftist policies, in order to bankroll the state's
abundant illegal immigrant population, which now stands at a quarter of the
nation's count.
And
the little claim at the bottom of that last cited paragraph from the Sacramento
Bee suggests even more trouble on the horizon for Californians who can just
barely pay those gargantuan Obamacare premiums: "keep premiums from rising
dramatically."
What'
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