"The State of California is expected to lose nearly $1.3 billion a year in Obamacare penalties" and there it is... that's all they care about is the cash, not health care
Posted on 12/20/2017 3:57:17 PM PST by bkopto
California’s Democrat-controlled legislature is considering a state version of Obamacare’s individual mandate to replace the one killed by President Trump’s new tax reform bill. State Senator and Chair of the Senate Health Committee Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina) told the San Francisco Chronicle that the tax reform that passed both houses of Congress this week, which would eliminate the penalty for not buying health insurance, is projected to result in 1.7 million fewer Californians having health insurance over the next decade. Hernandez claimed that, “All options are on the table if federal enforcement of the individual mandate ends.”
The State of California is expected to lose nearly $1.3 billion a year in Obamacare penalties, due to the tax reform bill eliminating fines for uninsured individuals, and employers not signing up for health care
Covered California executive director Peter Lee suggested at a Dec. 7 board meeting that the Democrat-controlled California legislature should pass its own state-level individual mandate. He stated that there is a precedent for a state mandate from former Republican Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s 2007 health care reform deal.
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Sounds like the Wall needs to extend north along the CA eastern border.
Anyone with a lick of sense that would live under that kind of mandate is gonna pack up and leave. Unfortunately, they bring their failed political beliefs with them wherever they land...kinda sucks.
Nuke it from orbit...
CA needs to succeed from USA.... Let them pay their own bills.
Great, more California refugees to cross the sierra nevada like a horde of locusts devouring everything in their path before leaving a barren wasteland of lost souls in their wake.
boy! it sure didn’t take long for the Californication Communist dictators to come up with THAT, did it?!
no wonder all the old time Californians are trying to get the hell out of that political cesspool now
(the population grows there as more and more people move in from Communist China and other countries, but many many native Californians are leaving as fast as they can, indeed Uhaul reportedly has had to impose a surcharge on its one-way rental vehicles and trailers leaving California...the surcharge being to move the equipment back to CA since almost no other Americans are moving to Californcation ..... Uhaul needs to reposition the equipment and can’t rely on the consumer demand to do it anymore since the demand is so strongly One Way )
The California libturds who control that state are doing all they can to rid themselves of their working class tax paying heroes by running them out of the state via financial force.
Good plan, California. Attract all people with expensive medical needs and chase away healthy people.
HEEEEElLLLLLPPP!! I’m stuck behind the redwood curtain and my government is literally trying to kill me. Can anyone please help? Pray some of us want out and cannot, we need a miracle!
And the best part is the other states have to pay for this. California does not have enough money to pay for all the socialist crap they enact...there’s no way.
Good for them...
projected to result in 1.7 million fewer Californians having health insurance
$1000 Plus per month and a $7000 Deductible, with a 40% copay is NOT Insurance, it is EXTORTION and THEFT!!!
I am one of those that pays the fine instead of volunteering to be Raped. My Insurance was Great until Obama and the COmmunist party screwed it up for everyone.
By the way $ 10,000 will get you an Amazing Amount of healthcare when you pay in CASH!!!
Abscess in my leg last month
Insurance: Billed $1000, they pay $200, it costs the Doctor
$100 to pay the girl to handle all the insurance paperwork, Doctor makes $100.
NO Insurance: $100 Office Visit, out in 15 minutes, NO PAPERWORK, Doctor gets paid immediately, still makes $100
you are exactly correct
we know several long-term California workers who cannot afford to stay there
not that they want to anymore, living in the LA or SF areas has become a horrid nightmare
but also they just can’t afford the artificially-inflated costs of living there, inflated mostly by the political hacks and taxes and fees and regulations that drive up costs of living even more
California idiot voters stole 3 billion from the rest of us for Stem Cell research to spite GWB a few years back. Nothing ever cam from it.
I'm one of those who left. I might add that Jim Robinson still lives there.
Double down on stupid!
Please, no.
"The State of California is expected to lose nearly $1.3 billion a year in Obamacare penalties" and there it is... that's all they care about is the cash, not health care
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