Posted on 04/14/2025 1:17:19 PM PDT by artichokegrower
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday to close a $2.8 billion budget gap in the state's Medicaid services and ensure coverage through June for 15 million people, including immigrants, who receive health care via the program.
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Which is why Newsom will never be President of the United States
California’s Medi-Cal shortfall hits $6.2 billion with ‘unprecedented’ cost increases
California health care officials told the Legislature on Monday that the state will need another $2.8 billion to be able to pay Medi-Cal providers through the end of the fiscal year.
That’s on top of a $3.4 billion loan that the administration told lawmakers last week it needed to make “critical” payments for Medi-Cal, the state-federal health insurance program for low-income people.
Combined, that’s $6.2 billion in spending above what was projected in the budget Gov. Gavin Newsom signed last summer. Almost 15 million Californians have health care coverage through Medi-Cal, also known as Medicaid.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/california-s-medi-cal-shortfall-hits-62-billion-with-unprecedented-cost-increases/ar-AA1B9GQa
15M people on Medicaid.
15M ?!?!?!?!
That’s over a third of the population!
California is DOOMED.
So, the rest of us comrades get to pay for California’s dalliance with illegals?
It’s three times the population of my home state of Minnesota.
If California ever got enough sanity to elect a true conservative governor, the first thing he should do is have CA file for bankruptcy. I think that’s the only way to break the cycle of lunacy.
Plus the rural hospitals in California are going bankrupt because of the high Medi-Cal caseload
That’s about enough money to build 500 feet of track for their super train.
“...Rep. Joe Wilson shouted “you lie” after President Obama denied the health care plan would cover illegal immigrants....”
As a conservative voter in CA, I long ago discovered that I had no voice. I was simply a convenient source of money for the Democrats to spend. I sought out a new place to live and decided on southeast Idaho. That decision was initiated in 1999 and the move occurred in Dec 2000. I'm no longer a source of money with a duct-taped mouth in CA.
including ILLEGAL immigrants
Fixed.
15M people on Medicaid.
I cannot find adequate words to describe how I feel about ‘California values’.
But if it is Medicaid, aren’t the rest of us paying for it outside of that dump?
When CA’s Newsom starts whining and crying to POTUS for more funding, let’s hope Trump throws him out of the WH.
Yes. Even in Idaho I have to subsidize Medicaid for my state and other states via the federal government. Idaho doesn't have as many illegals on the Medicaid rolls, but the number is not zero.
If. Conservative was elected as gov of California. He or she would spend all their energy fighting law suits.
Like someone else recently elected and has judges blocking every action.
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