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California Moves Toward Extending Obamacare to Illegal Immigrants
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-moves-toward-extending-obamacare-to-illegal-immigrants/ar-BBtQ8Wf?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=HPCDHP ^ | June 2, 2016 1 day ago | U.S. News & World ReportKimberly Leonard

Posted on 06/04/2016 2:36:58 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

During a 2009 address to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama told the country that his plans for health care reform would not extend to people who are in the country illegally.

"You lie!" South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson notoriously shouted. Obama replied, "That's not true."

But only two years after the largest coverage provisions in the Affordable Care Act took effect, the country's most populous state has passed a bill that, in fact, seeks to extend Obamacare to people regardless of their immigration status.

The bill, now before California Gov. Jerry Brown, aims to allow people who are in the country illegally to buy private health insurance on the state's exchange. Its author, Democratic state Sen. Ricardo Lara estimates that 390,000 such immigrants could receive health insurance, but officials who operate the exchange place that number closer to 50,000.

The legislation is being considered not only at a time when presidential candidates are campaigning in the Golden State but as those running have made health care and illegal immigration central platforms in their bids for the Oval Office, finding that their views on the topics have ignited voters' passions. To critics of the law, the bill signals another broken promise of Obamacare.

Obamacare explicitly bars people in the country illegally from its provisions, but a loophole called the "innovation waiver" allows for states to change portions of the law, as long as they make coverage available to more people and as long as the federal government doesn't have to pick up the tab, among other requirements. The bill, which would require that a request for a waiver be filed, first must be approved by the state legislature and the governor before the waiver can be considered by the federal government.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; cakifornia; california; demoncrats; illegals; immigration; joewilson; obamacare; youlie
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To: MarvinStinson
Trump will kill Obamacare as one of the first things he does. Screw the communists Democrats and the illegals.

Trump for President.

21 posted on 06/04/2016 3:11:08 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: MarvinStinson

I doubt very many of them can afford the deductibles.


22 posted on 06/04/2016 3:14:00 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (The day Trump is sworn in I'm changing my screen name.)
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To: Ray76

Ray, the Democrats see the taking of young families of Mexico as a boon.

No cost on the adults to raise them and cheap labor to keep them.

They have aborted the middle class of America and are trying to replace it with the young men and women of Central America.

That’s all.

Oh. That also shores up their failed SS scheme devised under Roosevelt and raped ever since.

The OverLords in Washington have us in way to deep and swimming lessons are for the peasants.


23 posted on 06/04/2016 3:15:06 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: eyeamok

You hit the nail on the head. I think it was Laura Ingraham who was discussing this with a nurse yesterday on her show who said they get their care and don’t pay for it and they don’t intend to because they own nothing and have no credit nor credit rating or identification. Why pay for something you can get for free. These stupid people ain’t stupid.


24 posted on 06/04/2016 3:15:57 PM PDT by lilypad
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To: BenLurkin
>What are we supposed to do. The schools teach our kids that our borders are evil. The courts overturn our ballot propositions. The people we elect to shrink government join big government.

There are solutions.

25 posted on 06/04/2016 3:17:52 PM PDT by Edward.Fish
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To: Kickass Conservative

26 posted on 06/04/2016 3:18:48 PM PDT by Veracious Poet (May God Bless America (again)
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To: Veracious Poet

Would if I could.


27 posted on 06/04/2016 3:20:13 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Anyone catch the There is nothing Democratic about the Democrat Party. (Or the GOPe))
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To: Aleya2Fairlie

>The bill, now before California Gov. Jerry Brown, aims to allow people who are in the country illegally to buy private health insurance on the state’s exchange.<

Nut no mandate? Are not Illegal aliens getting preferential treatment?


28 posted on 06/04/2016 3:30:02 PM PDT by Captain Compassion
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To: MarvinStinson

No problemo.

Remember - King Obama said that illegals couldn’t get Obamacare.


29 posted on 06/04/2016 3:55:45 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory. President Recep Erdogan)
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To: MarvinStinson

Obamacare will die in 2017...stupid Californians can agree to go along with their stupid politicians to pay benefits to people who reside in the state illegally.


30 posted on 06/04/2016 4:07:21 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: MarvinStinson
The bill, now before California Gov. Jerry Brown, aims to allow people who are in the country illegally to buy private health insurance on the state's exchange.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that if they're illegal aliens they are likely to be low income. And if they are low income they will qualify for subsidies, courtesy of you and I.

31 posted on 06/04/2016 4:08:40 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: MarvinStinson

To be paid for by CA taxpayers since those illegals don’t have money of their own. It will be interesting to watch CA fold under socialism of their state government.


32 posted on 06/04/2016 4:12:29 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SkyDancer
To be paid for by CA taxpayers

Remember when you visit California *you* will be paying their sales tax, their tourist tax, their occupancy tax. Plus the prices are higher to cover the mandated wages and taxes the business owner has to pay.

33 posted on 06/04/2016 4:16:58 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Iron Munro

PPACA is a national disgrace and a monstrosity. It should not exist, it does so only because the politicians line up at the money trough like a bunch of monkeys.


34 posted on 06/04/2016 4:18:44 PM PDT by Ray76
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To: ladyjane

Don’t intend to visit CA unless i have to do a flight there. I don’t spend on personal stuff on the road (so to speak) and the company picks up my tab which is charged back to the customer. CA to me is like going to Mexico which I don’t ever want to do.


35 posted on 06/04/2016 4:39:13 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Aleya2Fairlie

Joe “You Lie!” Wilson exposed this years ago (that ObamaCare covered illegals) and in 2012 American voters (many of whom are NOT workers and/or taxpayers) decided this was quite acceptable...


36 posted on 06/04/2016 4:48:00 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: MarvinStinson

Folks sure better vote in Trump.


37 posted on 06/04/2016 4:59:52 PM PDT by Gator113 (~~Vote Trump 2016~~ Just livin' life my way. Don't worry, everything's gonna be alright. &#128077;)
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To: MarvinStinson

Soon, we will need to dust off the 1867-68 Reconstruction Act and apply it to California.

The first act under Reconstruction is to move troops into the state and appoint a military governor.


38 posted on 06/04/2016 5:10:43 PM PDT by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: MarvinStinson

Moonbeam goes full Venezuela!


39 posted on 06/04/2016 5:30:32 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Free stuff. The primary “recruiting tool” for illegal aliens.


40 posted on 06/04/2016 7:20:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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