In the meanwhile ........
California Senate Votes To Open Up Obamacare To 2.5 Million Illegal Residents
And consider this. Passage of SB 4 could be a real boon to the business of health care delivery in California. California’s impressive medical system could be the leader in international medical tourism.
SB 4 would also make it clear that a foreign person could land at LAX, give Covered California a call and sign up for an almost full pay Platinum plan for a few hundred dollars a month, on the first of the following month when their coverage became effective show up at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and have thousands of dollars of treatment, get back on the plane and go home, and then drop the coverage.
SB 4 doesn’t have any requirements for how long a person has to be in the country to enjoy these benefits. All SB 4 says is, “No individual in California should be excluded from obtaining coverage through the California Health Benefit Exchange by reason of immigration status.”
In the more meanwhile, Anthem and Cigna are merging — and I have no doubt there will be NO monopoly charges filed — to further reduce the number of insurance carriers to choose from.
Most people who have signed up for Obamacare, something like 87%, get subsidies from the government to pay monthly premiums. Which means tax payers and those using private insurance will pay for the subsidies.