Posted on 11/13/2015 8:35:04 PM PST by markomalley
Over half of all illegal immigrants in California earn incomes so low that they would be eligible for the state Medicaid system Medi-Cal, a new study has found, just as California is about to extend the health insurance to children in the country illegally.
The non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California concluded that, should the deep blue state choose to go further and expand the program to include all illegal immigrants, 51 percent of them would have incomes low enough to be eligible for the program.
The study estimates that there are approximately 2.6 million illegal immigrants living in California, and so approximately 1.4 million would be eligible for Medi-Cal benefits should they be extended to them.
In some areas, such as Los Angeles County, the number of illegal immigrants eligible rises to 58 percent.
To qualify for Medi-Cal on income, a family must be earning less than 138 percent of the federal poverty line. In real terms, for a family of four the eligibility cut off is $32,913.
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I don’t think that Californian taxpayers will mind paying the medical bills of Mexican Nationals.
I’m sorry. I couldn’t get past the irony of the title.
I’m going to bed.
The insanity run amok in this country can wear you down.
Were is Mexico west getting the money to pay for all this?
Of course the illegals have “low” incomes.
Most of them work off the books, under the table.
Illegal means legal in California. At least for those who snuck over the border.
Most of them work off the books, under the table.
Mexicans have been working off the books in my area for at least 25 to 30 years. They have pretty much taken over construction these days. They have largely taken over the drug business in this area also. This entire county has around 50k in population, we had 6 deaths from heroin overdoses last week. It is almost impossible to get pain meds now so the druggies are turning to heroin.
The seed for failure is already in place.
This will be interesting to follow since it was brought about by a 'rino' and under a group who's motto was 70,000 CAN'T WAIT.
I can't find the news article, but the state estimates that 20,000 will sign up.
Also, they are allowed to sign up all year long.
See my tag line.
“Over half of all illegal immigrants in California earn incomes so low that they would be eligible for the state Medicaid system”
Sorry, but Fox News missed a word here...let me correct it:
“Over half of all illegal immigrants in California earn REPORTED incomes so low that they would be eligible for the state Medicaid system...”
Thank goodness heroin is illegal so it's of unknown purity and potency and its sale enriches criminals.
‘Thank goodness heroin is illegal so it’s of unknown purity and potency and its sale enriches criminals.’
I don’t think this war on drugs is working out too well, we’ve supposedly been fighting it since Nixon. It has corrupted our entire court system, the cops, made a lot of Mexicans rich and we are no closer to stamping it out than we were in Nixon’s day.
I think that it is possible that these folks were given extra strong heroin because their dealer wanted them gone. Could be they owed him a large bill, if this is the case we have a serial killer among us. The cops in this town will never find him.
During my life I have known several people that ODed and only one was an accident. These folks cannot bear to live and are choosing to go this way. To bad they cause so much heartache for the people around them.
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