California now giving free medical care to 1.8 MILLION illegal aliens--$4 Billion a year

Democrat-ruled California--home of the 80-billion-dollar "high-speed train to nowhere"--has a budget deficit of $68 BILLION this year.

So naturally the Democrats who run that state decided this would be the perfect time to expand free health care for another 764,000 illegal aliens--in addition to the 1.1 million the state already covered years earlier.

Next year the state's total cost for "free" health care for illegals will be $4 billion.

When Obozocare ("free" health insurance for the poor) was passed way back in 2010--without a single Republican vote, but getting every Democrat vote--part of that LAW said only American citizens were eligible.  

Everyone knew the Dems would quickly find a way to get around that silly restriction, and of course they did, by allowing Dem-ruled states to give illegals free "health insurance" via Medicaid (which California calls Medi-Cal).  

Of course the government websites never use "illegal alien" but the far less irritating "undocumented immigrants."  They're also fond of using the phrase "without legal status."

It's instructive to see how the illegal alien advocacy groups got this in: Back in 2015--just five years after Obozocare said only citizens could get free medical--advocates for illegals got the state to give free medical care to chirren, cuz pipo wanna be nice to kids, eh?  Then after they got that win the started pushing for the free care to be expanded to people 50 and up, cuz everyone wants to be nice to older pipo, eh?

Then after that win they pushed to expand to illegals 19 to 25, cuz...reasons.

Finally, faced with so much success and almost no opposition, they decided to go for the biggest win yet, adding everyone not already covered: 764,000, ages 26 to 49.

Activists assure illegals that California doesn't share immigration information with federal authorities, so enrolling in Medi-Cal will not hurt their chances for becoming citizens.  See, there's a thing called the "public charge rule" that says you can't become a citizen if you're likely to depend on any type of welfare.  But just as the Dems ignored Obamacare's "citizens only," they'll ignore this law too.

Significantly, the Medi-Cal law originally said only citizens were eligible, but illegal advocates pressured the Dem-controlled legislature to eliminate that requirement.  And "slowly, public opinion and political will shifted," as illegals became more powerful.

Just this latest expansion is projected to cost more than $835 million in the next six months and $2.6 billion every year thereafter.  The cost of health care for the  more than 1.1 million illegals already covered costs the state approximately $1.6 billion annually.  So this last "expansion" vastly increases the total cost to the state.

Get the pols behind the idea by starting with kiddies, then go for the big win eight years later.

But illegal advocates still aren't satisfied--and their latest push will reveal the con: they wail that another half-million illegal Californians aren't eligible for free health care (which advocates deliberately call "health insurance") *because they make too much money to qualify for Medi-Cal but still can’t afford private insurance.*

Didja get that?  If you're white and make too much money to qualify for free medical, that's that.  But illegals have "advocates" who can get rules changed.

And of course since all these decisions are done by decree, the illegals will get what they want. 

Source.

https://calmatters.org/health/2023/12/undocumented-health-insurance-new-california-laws-2024/