Medi-Cal expands to cover 30 percent of Californians

San Jose Mercury ^ | 05/20/2014 | Dan Walters

[artichokegrower]

A half-century ago, a governor named Brown persuaded the California Legislature to embark on what those involved thought would be a modest new program of health care for poor Californians.

Medi-Cal, as it was dubbed, was California's version of the national Medicaid program that had been attached to the new Medicare system of health care for the elderly.

At the time, California's poor obtained medical care, if they did, from either charity or county-owned hospitals, and Medi-Cal was seen as a way of easing the burden on the counties' taxpayers.

But as one of the participants in the Medi-Cal legislation, retired Assemblyman Gordon Duffy, recalled in an interview a few years ago, "No one in the world thought it through."

[artichokegrower]

The $90.6 billion projected cost is mostly borne by the feds

California to the rest of the country "Thanks".

[Lurker]

I can’t wait for the wheels to come off of this government.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Single payer, right under your noses.

[headstamp 2]

“Single payer, right under your noses”

Just had a nurse tell me that today. She said look for Medicaid to be rolled into single-payer once the wheels come off of Obamacare. The infrastructure is already in place. ObamaCare is unsustainable, her words, a disaster. Once the employer mandate kicks in, that’s all she wrote.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

.... “No one in the world thought it through.” ...

Sure they did. No one listened, much like today.

[umgud]

The silver lining is that CA soon will run out of money and no longer be able to fund its nanny state.

[Gay State Conservative]

All is going to plan.Drive private insurers out of business by increasing their costs,lowering their income and enacting tens of thousands of pages of regulations.Once completed...the rest is easy.

[exDemMom]

And then only the privileged will get medical care. Everyone else will get a couple of aspirins. That was Obama’s plan all along.

[artichokegrower]

The silver lining is that CA soon will run out of money and no longer be able to fund its nanny state.
That's the problem the federal government is picking up the bill not California.

[umgud]

I believe the feds only pick up the 1st three years.

[cherry]

of course this is about single payer....its always been about that.....more jobs and contracts to slip to friends and bundlers....more rights taken away(I can imagine them tracing your credit card to see what kind of food you buy or if you buy cigarrettes/liquor)...

you people out there voted for this.....

I'm just done pretending that our fellow Americans and even freepers didn't ultimately vote this in....

[cherry]

of course this is about single payer....its always been about that.....more jobs and contracts to slip to friends and bundlers....more rights taken away(I can imagine them tracing your credit card to see what kind of food you buy or if you buy cigarrettes/liquor)...

you people out there voted for this.....

I'm just done pretending that our fellow Americans and even freepers didn't ultimately vote this in....

[vette6387]

You might want to look at the figures in this article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_taxation_and_spending_by_state

Looks to me as though California pays the Feds more than it receives in benefits, unlike a lot of states. But there are a bunch of them, with Florida heading the list that are deadbeats. So where is your state on the list?

[blueplum]

Mexico to the US - thanks