Posted on 03/15/2025 9:45:36 AM PDT by Twotone
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Medi-Cal system is seeking a $3.4 billion taxpayer bailout after spending $9.5 billion this year on noncitizen immigrant health care.
A new report also highlighted how California “launders” national taxpayer funding to cover its Medi-Cal bills and is enabled by federal law.
Newsom’s proposed budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year includes a $7 billion reserve withdrawal. It’s unclear whether this emergency loan request for Medi-Cal either will result in or reflects the need for a higher budget for the taxpayer-funded healthcare program.
“California now spends 22% of its General Fund Medi-Cal budget on healthcare for over 1.6 million illegal immigrants,” said state Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones, R-San Diego. “Legal residents are paying the price — in healthcare access and financially.”
At the time Medi-Cal expanded coverage to all illegal immigrants in the state at the start of 2024, the taxpayer-funded healthcare system was already under strain. Medi-Cal has long suffered from a shortage of doctors and care providers due to the system’s reimbursement rates often being lower than the cost of providing care.
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Embezzlement
This weasel needs to be taught lesson
- Barack Obama.
Nope.
Yeah, nyet.
Have it deducted from his pay (and bank accounts).
Time to call an 0biden blackrobe and get a federal order to have usaid send some $$$$’s.
It didn’t start in 2024. CA has extended full coverage to illegals as early as 2018 (it was fully developed by then). When Trump got rid of DACA, the Social Services Admin in CA instructed benefits workers to comb through files and remove the classification ‘DACA’ for illegals so they could not be identified for removal. Illegals children had their own pediatricians and annual comprehensive medical evaluations etc., something non-illegals often couldn’t afford.
Only if they do a total cleanup of voter rolls, including ONLY citizens get to vote!!! Then, maybe...
cluck on the following link and scroll over the adverts to get: A real time analysis of Newscom's weird hand gestures from Gutfield yesterday:
"Looks like he is negotiating with a deaf prostitute"
States should be shut off from the related federal funding until they shape up. (They would shape up quickly!)
Nope. Fund your own socialist hellhole, commiefornia!
No. This is on you, Gov. DippityDo.
No! Maybe he can bill the Mex govt
CA residents can pay for the Bail Out.
They’ll be fine. CA has trillions available. It’s sitting in taxpayers’ pockets, ready to be taken.
This is kinda like the Menendez brothers begging for the court’s mercy because they are orphans. Someone tell Gavin to clean up his own mess. No one outside of CA has anything to do with his problems or fixing them.
How about a loan with California as collateral, just in case you default on the loan.
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