Poll: Californians increasingly back Medi-Cal for immigrants

SFGate.Com ^ | August 26, 2015

[BradtotheBone]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians increasingly support extending public health care services to immigrants who are in the country illegally, according to new survey results released Wednesday.

The Field Poll found 58 percent of registered California voters support extending Medi-Cal services to immigrants not currently eligible for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, while 39 percent are opposed.

Last year, 51 percent supported expanding the low-income health program to immigrants while 45 percent were opposed.

By party affiliation, Democrats overwhelmingly favor the proposal, 78 percent to 19 percent. Republicans oppose the change, 72 percent to 25 percent.

Three-quarters of Latinos support extending Medi-Cal to immigrants in the country illegally, and a majority of whites, African Americans and Asian Americans also support the move.

"These findings tell us that Californians value health equity," said Judy Belk, president and chief executive of California Wellness, which funded the survey. "There is increasing support for ACA, and a clear desire to be inclusive of all people, including the undocumented, when it comes to health care access."

An estimated 2.7 million immigrants are living in California illegally. In June, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a budget that expands state-subsidized Medi-Cal coverage to low-income children regardless of their legal status beginning next May.

The move could cost taxpayers up to $132 million annually once fully implemented.

[ought-six]

That suggests to me that Hispanics may now be the majority ethnic group in Cali. ,p. Where have you been, man? They became the dominant ethnic group last year.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Note to California ( I am native Btw- born in Los Angeles) I Hope you dont expect the rest of the nation to help you when you no longer have enough working people working to pay benefits for every person who runs across the border.
Freegards
LEX

[forgotten man]

Today I read “California depends heavily on taxing the wealthy, pulling about half its income tax revenue from just 1 percent of residents in recent years.” Without a lot of revenue from capital gains taxes, look out below. California will be insolvent very soon. Those illegals are not paying squat.

[LS]

Problem is, it's a decaying arm attached to the body of the United States. I can't see how we continue to keep CA a part of the nation much longer.

I had to pull my business office out because we were getting a franchise tax of $800 a year JUST for having an office there. And, any investor in my company who invested through an LLC of his own ALSO had to pay $800 as a separate entity.

When we tried to cease business in CA, they first told us the form wasn't right, and we had to resumbmit. Then they said we owed an additional $45 for some nonsense that we never had to pay before. Glad to be out.

[lewislynn]

BULLSHIT!

[Political Junkie Too]

I'm glad I got out last year.

-PJ

[glennaro]

A surprisingly successful tactic used by the Left, the purposefully misleading headline by SFGate does not distinguish legal immigrants from illegal aliens ... they’re all just “immigrants”. This distinction must be called out at every opportunity ... though the response in the SF area is usually, “Huh?” ... or “What do you mean?”

[jmacusa]

So Californians don’t mind shelling out more dough for the illegals, eh? Heck, maybe they just ought to give the bastards the keys to their homes, let ‘em move in.

[The_Media_never_lie]

The Field Poll found 58 percent of registered California voters support extending Medi-Cal services to immigrants not currently eligible for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, while 39 percent are opposed.

Wonder how the question was phrased.

[Defiant]

Does the increasing support correspond to the increasing number of illegals?

[ExCTCitizen]

We should sell California to the Mexicans for 100% of Pemex.

[Jane Long]

Maybe that's because half the Californians are from Mexico.

[Osage Orange]

Don't matter in Calif. if they vote or not....the Ninth Circuit will just overturn it...if they don't like it.

I lived there...and lived thru those overturns.

Prop 187

Prop 22

Prop 8

The will of the people denied.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Make those who support this spending pay for it. Sane people can mark an “Opt Out because I’m not crazy” box.

[Trod Upon]

No bailout for CA when goes broke(and it will). Let it rot.

[RightLady]

But what about the undocumented citizens in the other six states?????? —POTUS

[snoringbear]

“That suggests to me that Hispanics may now be the majority ethnic group in Cali. ,p. Where have you been, man? They became the dominant ethnic group last year.”

Where have I been? Not in California. God Bless Texas :)

[ought-six]

‘God Bless Texas’ is right!