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Some California leaders want low-cost health care for undocumented immigrants
The Tribune ^ | April 19, 2013 | Jim Sanders

Posted on 04/20/2013 8:53:32 AM PDT by moonshinner_09

About a million of California's poorest undocumented immigrants would have access to basic low-cost health care under a plan being pushed at the Capitol.

President Barack Obama's federal health care overhaul excludes undocumented immigrants, but some California leaders want to fill that gap by offering a safety net of primary and preventive care that does not consider immigration status.

The county-run program would give undocumented immigrants – and legal residents who can't afford health insurance but don't qualify for Medi-Cal – the ongoing opportunity to see a doctor, get tested and receive treatment before minor health problems become severe.

Funding would come from an estimated $700 million in county savings tied to expansion of the Medi-Cal program.

(Excerpt) Read more at sanluisobispo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; calif; healthcare; immigration
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Calif doing well enough these days to provide free healthcare to illegals ?
1 posted on 04/20/2013 8:53:32 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
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To: moonshinner_09

They haven’t spent all their money yet. Need to spend a little more to get to zero, and then ask the federal gov’t to sponsor them from that point on.


2 posted on 04/20/2013 8:55:09 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: moonshinner_09

What the **** is “low cost healthcare”?


3 posted on 04/20/2013 8:55:58 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Amnesty Bill - 800 pages filled with 400 waivers and exemptions for illegal aliens.)
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To: moonshinner_09

Good for California!!! Lure all the illegal leeches from Texas and other states to California. Works for me!


4 posted on 04/20/2013 8:56:09 AM PDT by avacado
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5 posted on 04/20/2013 9:00:27 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: moonshinner_09

Distributing health care will become another leftist/Obama mechanism for rewarding the politically correct and punishing conservatives, Christians and the right, just like the bailouts were used by this president.


6 posted on 04/20/2013 9:00:44 AM PDT by Spok
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To: moonshinner_09

The left wants to control your finances and it wants to it wants to control your access to health care. In reality, it wants to control every aspect of your life.... What could go wrong with that?


7 posted on 04/20/2013 9:06:08 AM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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To: moonshinner_09

They are not “undocumented immigrants.” They are ILLEGAL ALIENS. Calling them “undocumented immigrants” is like calling shoplifting an “undocumented purchase.”


8 posted on 04/20/2013 9:07:59 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: moonshinner_09

People who think money grows on trees are running the government.

THAT is a huge problem.


9 posted on 04/20/2013 9:08:03 AM PDT by stanne
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To: moonshinner_09

“””””””””undocumented immigrants””””””””””

I see someone has jumped on the ‘Forward Thinking’ PC bandwagon.


10 posted on 04/20/2013 9:09:52 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!!)
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To: moonshinner_09

Illegals already get ‘health care’ in California. Just walk into any emergency room and see who is there. They go for the sniffles. They use the ambulance services for free rides into town.


11 posted on 04/20/2013 9:10:36 AM PDT by sheana
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I live in California, I work, and I sure don’t have low-cost healthcare. I pay $600 a month not counting copays and deductibles. It’s a real burden, and I have to live a very frugal lifestyle to pay for it. I’ve never broken the law. Why the H** should illegals get low-cost health care? This stuff just makes my blood boil. Seems nothing is too good for illegals, and to hell with the law-abiding citizens who pay for it all.


12 posted on 04/20/2013 9:15:46 AM PDT by Nea Wood (When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.)
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To: moonshinner_09

How do they plan to pay for it?


13 posted on 04/20/2013 9:17:09 AM PDT by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: moonshinner_09

Wait a few weeks....there will be BLANKET AMNESTY for ALL the parasites who came to the USA for “Los Freebies”.


14 posted on 04/20/2013 9:18:27 AM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: pepsionice
They haven’t spent all their of Somebody Else's money yet. Need to spend a little more to get to zero,...

There, fixed it for you.

15 posted on 04/20/2013 9:20:39 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
What the **** is “low cost healthcare”?

You and I get to pay for their healthcare.

16 posted on 04/20/2013 9:23:39 AM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: moonshinner_09
The State of California will become Mexico in 5 years with demographics, crime , and failed policies. The state has run out of money for basic services (police, fire , prisons). They are 50% under funded for Calpers. The state government is going to get very hungry for more taxes and could even look at some of the current European strategies for wealth confiscation. I could foresee a net worth tax, increased state income tax and a state exit tax.
17 posted on 04/20/2013 9:26:00 AM PDT by pterional
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To: FlingWingFlyer

My understanding of low cost health care is: “Take two asprin and DON’T call me in the morning.” Adios amigo.


18 posted on 04/20/2013 9:27:22 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: GreenHornet
They are not “undocumented immigrants.” They are ILLEGAL ALIENS. Calling them “undocumented immigrants” is like calling shoplifting an “undocumented purchase.”

Well said, GreenHornet! Those who define the terms usually win the arguments.

19 posted on 04/20/2013 9:28:56 AM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: moonshinner_09

Funding would come from an estimated $700 million in county savings

Hilarious! County savings? When has any government had savings?


20 posted on 04/20/2013 9:34:47 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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