Posted on 06/12/2024 7:42:17 AM PDT by artichokegrower
California Gov. Gavin Newsom last year agreed to a tax increase that aimed to do two things: Help balance a budget with a multibillion-dollar shortfall, and pay doctors more money to treat patients covered by Medicaid — the taxpayer-funded health insurance program for people with low incomes that now covers one out of every three people in the state.
A year later, California is relying on this tax more than ever. Newsom raised it again in March to help cover another multibillion-dollar shortfall this year. And he's proposing to raise it a third time to generate even more money as the deficit has continued to grow.
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“Left 100% to market forces, the availability of care would go up and the cost would go down”
How is that done? Insurance and government help with medical expenses ... it’s very complex.
It needs to become an issue for voters. Right now it’s not a hot issue. Voters by and large must be content with their medical care. The poor get government coverage. The non-poor have insurance often provided by their employer. They (like me) know how much the insurance costs but we accept it without much grumbling.
“How is that done? Insurance and government help with medical expenses ... it’s very complex.”
It will be done eventually as the government paying for too much of it becomes unsustainable and good care gradually becomes only available outside of that government support.
“It needs to become an issue for voters.”
You seem to keep falling back on the government as the solution.
Bingo!
““It needs to become an issue for voters.” ... You seem to keep falling back on the government as the solution.”
Who’s going to make government smaller if it’s not we voters?
Also,note. CaCaLand under Newsome (#47, mind you) has a $45B deficit. And, just recently 24B of that was found in an audit to be untraceable. No one in Newsome’s office knows where it went, who spent it, what it was spent on, etc.
Not allegations. Audit results.
Just imagine what he will do once in the WHouse. Ukraine will have no problems, they will get Trillions.
California voted for Reagan That’s not 180 years ago. Tex’s can flip in one cycle
Every city in Texas is bluer than my home region of Long Island ny suburbia. Will not take 180 years. The democrat led (republican/mouthbreather majority-led state house in Austin is pushing for a turnover.
Anyone who can’t see this coming has no clue. Actually.
Houston was deemed dirtiest city in the states. The U.S. worse than LA. Houston Texas.
Last month
Medicare pays doctors & hospitals 50% of actual charges. If everyone was put on Medicare, the medical system would collapse.
Read the words slowly Stan. And the problem with Texas is your governor and many others begged businesses from California to move there, the same governor who used to attend La Raza meetings.
And you’re attacking me personally, and pointing out what I said, in agreement - the mouth breathers in Austin- led by Abbott hello!
is going to prevent the Texas cities from turning Texas blue
Do you know nyc runs the nys government look at the presidential voting map
Do you know NY voted in the presidential election for Reagan? Thats not 180 years to turn a state around
It’s interesting, all those photographs of Rick Perry at La Raza meetings have all disappeared from the Internet....lol
Texans think their government and state are conservative. They’ll be surprised
NY? Gezzz stan, I said I’d have to live to 180 years old before where I live now to become anything like what I came from in CA.
In fact, where I am now will *never* become like what I experienced in LA. Trust me here stan.☺
What does that have to do with the subject of Texas turning blue? Nothing
Texas going to the left was inevitable given the fact you had a governor who used to attend La Raza meetings and go to CA on junkets begging for their *extreme* leftist run companies to move to TX.
It was only a matter of time.
In fact looking at the history in TX, with LBJ welfare society and two Bush’s (open border globalist), it’s a wonder TX didn’t go left long ago.
“Medicare pays doctors & hospitals 50% of actual charges. If everyone was put on Medicare, the medical system would collapse.”
(a) what’s to be said about “actual charges”. Should we assume they are reasonable?
(b) if everyone were put on Medicare, we and/or our employers would pay less, and our take-home pay would go up to compensate for the increased Medicare tax imposed on us.
I don’t favor the “everyone on Medicare” idea. I think somehow competition can be introduced into our medical arrangement.
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