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As Trump Ends Obamacare Mandate, California May Impose Its Own
Breitbart ^ | 12/20/2017 | chriss street

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: aca; california; edhernandez; obamacare; sanfrancisco; trumptaxcuts; westcovina
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1 posted on 12/20/2017 3:57:17 PM PST by bkopto
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To: bkopto

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.


2 posted on 12/20/2017 3:59:42 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: bkopto
Pols in CA must have very short memories, from 2014...

Mass. ditches RomneyCare exchange

3 posted on 12/20/2017 4:00:39 PM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: bkopto

Nuke it from orbit...


4 posted on 12/20/2017 4:00:42 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: lgjhn23

CA needs to succeed from USA.... Let them pay their own bills.


5 posted on 12/20/2017 4:01:17 PM PST by Ambrosia ( Independent Voter- Southern as grits...Not politically correct! Facts first!)
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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.


6 posted on 12/20/2017 4:01:59 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: bkopto

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 )


7 posted on 12/20/2017 4:02:25 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: mewzilla
Why Romneycare’s Failure Haunts Us Still The model for Obamacare screams higher costs, lack of access, fewer providers
8 posted on 12/20/2017 4:03:40 PM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: bkopto

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.


9 posted on 12/20/2017 4:05:31 PM PST by drypowder
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Good plan, California. Attract all people with expensive medical needs and chase away healthy people.


10 posted on 12/20/2017 4:06:47 PM PST by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: bkopto

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!


11 posted on 12/20/2017 4:07:00 PM PST by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: dsrtsage

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.


12 posted on 12/20/2017 4:07:26 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: bkopto

Good for them...


13 posted on 12/20/2017 4:08:09 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: bkopto

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


14 posted on 12/20/2017 4:08:47 PM PST by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: drypowder

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


15 posted on 12/20/2017 4:09:40 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: bkopto

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.


16 posted on 12/20/2017 4:09:42 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: dsrtsage
Great, more California refugees...

I'm one of those who left. I might add that Jim Robinson still lives there.

17 posted on 12/20/2017 4:11:15 PM PST by Nateman (The louder the left screams , the better it is for America!)
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To: bkopto

Double down on stupid!


18 posted on 12/20/2017 4:12:03 PM PST by mylife ( The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: bkopto

Please, no.


19 posted on 12/20/2017 4:12:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: bkopto
"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

20 posted on 12/20/2017 4:12:47 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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