Posted on 12/20/2017 3:57:17 PM PST by bkopto
Californias Democrat-controlled legislature is considering a state version of Obamacares individual mandate to replace the one killed by President Trumps 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 Romneys 2007 health care reform deal.
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Where are you at behind that curtain? I’m in Humboldt county right next to Trinity county.
They really do want to be their own country, don’t they? Now if they would only take NY, NJ, CT, DC and few others with them I think we could make a deal.
It was actually 6 billion when you count the interest paid for the bond.
Complete waste of money.
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.
Most of the counties in eastern Calif voted for Trump and have nothing in common with those on the coast separated by the wall of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
My family left for Wyoming in 2010 and never looked back.
And you know what I have to deal with in Wyoming on a daily basis that California’s politicians took care of a long time ago?
Freedom.
It’s so amazing to discover what real freedom looks like after you’ve lived in an authoritarian cesspool.
How a bout we start a grassroots recall of you position, elected or appointed, and whoever else thinks that whatever may have worked in Massachusetts in 2007 set a precedent for California.
The Constitutionality of the Federal Mandate was never resolved as to Constitutionality.
Calling it a tax may not work at the State level.
I propose starting a petition for a State Constitutional Amendment prohibiting any legislature from mandating California citizens from buying a service they don't want or need subject to a State monetary penalty for failure to do so.You want to continue that stupid game?
We the people of California can, and we will "Prop 13" any illegal law you attempt, as well as starting recall petitions against every legislator who thinks that we the actual working net taxpayers are the servants, and not the masters of the State of California.
Man, these mob-elected criminals really do want a permanent state of antifa-mob-rule armed civil unrest for California, don't they.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is in charge of everything ONLY when the president is a DEMOCRAT.
THE STATES are in charge of their own destiny ONLY when the president is a REPUBLICAN.
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Just another tax increase.
Which will help to accelerate population outflow from CA.
I hope they adopt it.
Sorry. At this point, you have to evaluate what’s ‘keeping’ you in CA. If it’s not something you can do without, well, you’re screwed.
If CA Democrats want to impose their own Obamacare mandate, that’s their privilege.
What does though is show how addicted Democrats are to higher taxes.
Great news heading into the 2018 midterms.
So the fed’s say no more having to pay for insurance whether or not you want it but CA will impose the same fee so they can say their citizens are insured. Got it.
California new state song.......
Venezuela here we come
Right back where we started from
California suffered a mighty blow today as they lost their big mortgage deduction and their 13% income tax deduction over $10,000. This is so wonderful as this wealth confiscation for illegal aliens and parasites was being subsidized federally by us and we did not want to subsidize their communist transfer of wealth. Now they get to suck it up Buttercup and we could care less.
California: It’s Greece, Venezuela and a TB ward, all rolled into one, fetid mass.
Just as long as Peter Lee and Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina)don’t have to purchase this crap, then oky doky.
Fortunately, any state with a lick of common sense will kick some serious butt to any and all parasites who plan to californicate any state that they chose to move into.
Assuming the existing California parasites have the initiative and means to move to another state which does not welcome indolent dope-dependent welfare guzzling baby-momma and illegal invader parasites.
I predict this will not work out well for California.
They got the idea from Mitt Romney.
More proof the Democrats can totally screw up anything.
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