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Gov. Jerry Brown Considering Expanding Medi-Cal To Immigrants
LATimes ^ | December 03, 2013 | PHIL WILLON

Posted on 12/03/2014 7:51:35 PM PST by Steelfish

Gov. Jerry Brown Considering Expanding Medi-Cal To Immigrants

By PHIL WILLON Gov. Jerry Brown is considering expanding state-funded Medi-Cal coverage to residents shielded from deportation under President Obama’s new immigration policies.

Nancy McFadden, the governor’s top policy aide, said that possibility is under review by the Brown administration, but implied that the potential cost would be a factor in the decision.

“We’re still evaluating, but the president’s recent action on undocumented immigrants could perhaps open a door for more coverage of more people under Medi-Cal,’’ McFadden said. “We’re looking at that. That, of course, is going to cost money.’’

McFadden made the comments while speaking at an event Wednesday hosted by the Public Policy Institute of California, held after the release of its recent opinion poll on California's future, and she touched on a number of Brown’s top policy priorities for his upcoming new term.

McFadden noted that 2 million more Californians are covered by Medi-Cal than two years ago, and emphasized that the increase in healthcare coverage for residents is a pivotal ingredient in helping people rise out of poverty.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; governormoonbeam; illegals; jerrybrown; medical
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1 posted on 12/03/2014 7:51:35 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish
Remember when Californians used to be rugged pioneers, innovators, and inventors?

Remember when their school and public service systems were the envy of America?

Remember when hordes of Americans used to move to CA for the sunshine and laid-back atmosphere?

All gone folks, all shot to s--t by leftism. It is nothing more than a satellite province of Mexico now.

2 posted on 12/03/2014 7:55:45 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (NO COMPROMISE! NO BIPARTISANSHIP! STOP OBAMA NOW!)
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To: Steelfish

LA Times cannot tell the difference between illegal and legal immigrants


3 posted on 12/03/2014 7:56:12 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Steelfish

.... Guess he’ll have to plant more money trees to cover the cost. That is where money comes from right?


4 posted on 12/03/2014 7:56:14 PM PST by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: Steelfish
Gov. Jerry Brown Considering Expanding Medi-Cal To Immigrants

That's illegal immigrants. So there are unemployed and underserved veterans and we (California) are going to give free healthcare to criminals? Really?

5 posted on 12/03/2014 8:02:11 PM PST by Mike Darancette (AGW-e is the climate "Domino Theory")
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To: Steelfish

Taking a cue from Emperor Barky, His Brownieness is making a decree of his own. Before you know it, all the Rat governors will be staking out their own fiefdoms.


6 posted on 12/03/2014 8:03:30 PM PST by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of Obama's America)
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To: Steelfish

Remember when several of your cities had to file bankruptcy a few years ago due to overusage of government programs and subsidies by illegal immigrants a few years ago, Governor Brown? Imagine that statewide with all cities bankrupted because that’s where you’re heading.


7 posted on 12/03/2014 8:03:39 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: R_Kangel

And doctor trees.


8 posted on 12/03/2014 8:08:05 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: Steelfish

That’s a great idea.
NnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnNOT !!!


9 posted on 12/03/2014 8:21:46 PM PST by 4Liberty (Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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To: R_Kangel
Nope, Jerry Brown is going to pay the extra costs out of his own pocket.
10 posted on 12/03/2014 8:23:54 PM PST by fhayek
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To: Steelfish

Immigrants or Barry’s illegal alien invaders?


11 posted on 12/03/2014 8:25:56 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember! When the GOP wins, it means the stupid American voters want bipartisanship.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Used to have the best drivers and freeways in the fricken world.

Now we have the worst drivers and freeways that bounce you around worse than the Matterhorn ride at Disneyland.


12 posted on 12/03/2014 8:31:13 PM PST by DoughtyOne (GOP. GOPe. GOPeGads! GOPeWWWWWWWWWWWWW...)
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To: Steelfish

I had heard this was a done deal. Hope I was wrong.


13 posted on 12/03/2014 8:31:52 PM PST by DoughtyOne (GOP. GOPe. GOPeGads! GOPeWWWWWWWWWWWWW...)
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To: GeronL

Goal attained...


14 posted on 12/03/2014 8:32:09 PM PST by DoughtyOne (GOP. GOPe. GOPeGads! GOPeWWWWWWWWWWWWW...)
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I almost got hit today on the way home. 3 lane road and I was in the middle lane. Large pickup kept coming over the line on me and almost hit me. I sped up to get around them and looked in the mirror. Small Mexican woman driving of course. They fricken can’t drive! everytime I come close to being hit I look and they’re mexican.


15 posted on 12/03/2014 8:37:23 PM PST by sheana
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Brown wants to “get high-speed rail actually on a path where it won’t be stopped,’’ McFadden said.

Ha!

It will never go between any two destination points in commercial service.

And, everyone knows it (except for some highly trusting, yet ignorant voters).

.

16 posted on 12/03/2014 8:47:54 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: sheana

We have an ethnicity that took over my town. Used to be 75% white. That 75% is still White, but from near Turkey.

These folks don’t signal, don’t look before changing lanes, and don’t look before pulling out onto the street.

This very evening a bus was stopped at a bus stop. One of these characters walked around the front of the bus and just a step from my vehicle. I was going about 20 MPH. I didn’t even try to stop. Was moving at a fast pace across the road in the middle of the street from behind a blind in heavy traffic. He barely stopped in time. I was about ten feet from him when I saw him.

About six years ago I was driving south on Glendale Avenue. I was in the right lane. The car next to me decided they wanted to come over and they clipped the front of my car. I saw them coming, but that happens about twice on the way to work every day. I learned to just wait until they wake up, but this guy never looked.

He left about a one inch spot on my left front fender. It was damp on the road, and his front end pulled around and he ran right into parked cars. He did a lot of damage to his own car and I think he totaled a vintage pickup that had been parked.

If I had broken my wheels free by braking, I would have been pushing into the parked cars. As it was, virtually nothing happened to my car.

An older lady sitting in the passenger seat was transported to the hospital.

You feel bad for these folks, but what the hell.

They shouldn’t even be on the road.

I know what you are talking about. Some of those folks are industrious. You see them all the time loaded up in a pickup, going somewhere to dump the yard stuff they’ve loaded up.

Nobody says a word, because they know these folks won’t, can’t change anything. If you or I did that, our license would be on display at the Smithsonian the next day.


17 posted on 12/03/2014 8:50:51 PM PST by DoughtyOne (GOP. GOPe. GOPeGads! GOPeWWWWWWWWWWWWW...)
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To: Steelfish

Kalifornistan is falling to pieces with its libtards at the helm. Once one of the most powerful states in the world now it is the worlds largest cess pool.


18 posted on 12/03/2014 9:40:52 PM PST by Busko
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I thought it was a done deal too, I am betting they were all giddy about it the day after Obama used his pen, but then the bean counters brought them back to reality. I think the statement by his staff “that it is being considered, but there is a cost” is very telling. I bet there is at least 500k of illegals that Obama waved his magic wand over, that will cost a whole lot of money to insure.......
19 posted on 12/03/2014 10:10:42 PM PST by martinidon
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I believe firmly that we have between five and ten million illegals in California. If we don’t have at least 5 million, some things start making very little sense.

We’re talking non English speakers, the majority of which are illegal aliens.


20 posted on 12/03/2014 10:16:58 PM PST by DoughtyOne (GOP. GOPe. GOPeGads! GOPeWWWWWWWWWWWWW...)
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