Posted on 02/15/2015 6:09:03 PM PST by artichokegrower
Since California embraced the federal health care overhaul, the state's Medicaid program for the poor has added more than 2.7 million people, a surprisingly high number that has left the state to grapple with making sure there are enough doctors to care for all of them.
Medi-Cal, the $95 billion joint federal-state program, covers 12 million people — nearly one in every three residents — for their doctor visits, hospital care, pregnancy-related services, as well as some nursing home care, making California the largest health care purchaser in the state.
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California is the state that gives this Illinois resident hope.
And this is only the beginning. We have how many more illegal aliens coming to California? One million, five million? Who knows?
Just one more reason to support the State of Jefferson here in NorCal.
That’s more people than the population of Georgia
It looks like California’s safety net has too many fish in it and the net’s about to break!
Golly!! Where did all these poor people come from??
It’s the entire population of Illinois.
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California is the medical clinic for Mexico, Central America and South America.
That said, and for perspective, the population of the Once-Golden-State is 38 million.
Thus nearly one of three peeps hereabouts is on Medicaid welfare.
(And, one suspects, with Mister Obama's and Mister Jerry Brown's generosity to illegal aliens' immigration, it's about to go much, much higher.)
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1 in 3 Kalipornians is now “poor”, or as Nancy Pelosi would say “artists on a staycation”
Texas versus California.
Both states were HANDED THE BAIT: Billions of federal dollars to pay for indigent care (i.e., care of lazy people, in probably a majority of the cases). California said: YUMMY, free money, and less people going to Emergency Rooms. Texas said: This sounds too good to be true, there has to be a catch.
And now California is learning its lesson (no, not learning anything, but seeing the results): The catch is the super-low payment rates to doctors - only the REALLY DESPERATE doctors will take Medicaid patients, as most doctors lose money on them...so guess where the poor are forced to go for their medical care - you got it: Emergency Rooms. And there has NOT been any decline in the number of people going to those facilities.
California simply took the bait...which is why I don’t live there anymore.
Viva Chavez.. err .. Brown!
I’m still a Californian and so are many millions of
others, thank you.
“Who knows?”
Everyone in South America and Central America? I mean, why not?
Time to raise taxes again...
on the middle class.
Mexi-care.....
I don’t think people were dying on the streets before Obamacare. In most jurisdictions charity hospitals and county hospitals provided healthcare according to the patient’s ability to pay. And that usually meant without deductibles.
So the question now is whether the mandated coverage and deductibles under Obamacare regulations will prevail. If so, even with subsidies for premiums, the poor won’t have deductibles paid for, no? I haven’t heard of any provisions for payment of deductibles. Are the poor and medium income folks really going to be better off?
I Would assume that refers to the state of insanity?
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