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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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To: Inyo-Mono

Santa Cruz mountains?


41 posted on 12/20/2017 5:15:44 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: Ambrosia

Secede...


42 posted on 12/20/2017 5:18:33 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: bkopto

Article stated.....”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”.......

Trying to get more ‘revenue flow’ into their own government coffers....has nothing to do with Healthcare for the people.


43 posted on 12/20/2017 5:19:25 PM PST by caww (freeen)
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To: bkopto

You know it’s a good system when the government has to shove it down your throat.


44 posted on 12/20/2017 5:19:35 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: publius911

Cal. is going to end up a debtor state at the rate their playing their cards.....of course perhaps that’s what they want....Ukraine Style.


45 posted on 12/20/2017 5:21:35 PM PST by caww (freeen)
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To: Karliner

I feel your pain, friend. I got myself and my family out of there twelve years ago. We made it to Texas with barely enough money to open a bank account.

The first few years were very tough, but we made it. So can you.

Good luck!


46 posted on 12/20/2017 5:24:37 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: bkopto
This just in:

Democrats Discover Federalism


47 posted on 12/20/2017 5:28:38 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Headline: Muslims Fear Backlash from Tomorrow's Terror Attack - Mark Steyn)
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To: Ambrosia

Secede?


48 posted on 12/20/2017 5:34:40 PM PST by publius911 (CBS: "Asking the right questions is 100% of catching sexual abusers")
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To: eyeamok

Because it was cash - he probably didn’t declare it on his taxes. More like making $150.


49 posted on 12/20/2017 5:51:01 PM PST by JoeVet (First rule of holes ... when you find yourself standing in one - stop digging ... unless ur a Dim)
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To: eyeamok

Because it was cash - he probably didn’t declare it on his taxes. More like making $150.


50 posted on 12/20/2017 5:51:02 PM PST by JoeVet (First rule of holes ... when you find yourself standing in one - stop digging ... unless ur a Dim)
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To: bkopto

California should impose it.


51 posted on 12/20/2017 5:57:24 PM PST by stevem
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To: eyeamok

“By the way $ 10,000 will get you an Amazing Amount of healthcare when you pay in CASH!!!”

I have the same situation. I had a hernia operation early this year. St. George Surgery Center. Showed up at 5AM, out by 11Am. $3,050 flat on the barrel head. Great service, one third the cost.


52 posted on 12/20/2017 6:08:36 PM PST by DaxtonBrown
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To: lgjhn23

*AHEM* EXCUSE ME! I was dropped off in CA by Uncle Sam, stayed because of family and business considerations.

My wife and I plan on moving to the Texas Hill Country when we retire (hopefully in the not-too-distant-future.)

The only thing from CA that we will be bringing are the license plates (which will be replaced within the first week of being back in God’s Country).

That and a couple of CA-satirizing routines for my comedy/music show that I have already started coming up with.

(But I understand where you’re coming from. I DESPISE most of the critters around here, but in a state with almost 50 million people, there’s still a few of us who are sane...)


53 posted on 12/20/2017 6:35:45 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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To: bkopto

They’re so funny when they’re mad - little heads spinning around, pea soup spewing....


54 posted on 12/20/2017 7:21:01 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: lgjhn23

Arizona just passed 7 million in population. California’s march to communism will certainly speed our progress to 8 million.


55 posted on 12/20/2017 10:41:17 PM PST by AZLiberty (The logical endpoint of "zero-tolerance history" is zero history.)
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To: bkopto

lol...California is going to implement ANOTHER tax... wow.


56 posted on 12/20/2017 10:55:50 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: bkopto

It just gets better and better in this state.

I don’t know why SoCal hasn’t declared war on Sacramento.


57 posted on 12/20/2017 10:57:15 PM PST by Pelham (all warfare is based on deception)
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To: snarkytart

Hey. Somebody has to pay to feed and medicate all of Mexico’s welfare cases.

And the Dems and GOPe decided that Californians are just the people to do it.


58 posted on 12/20/2017 10:59:46 PM PST by Pelham (all warfare is based on deception)
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To: faithhopecharity
" inflated mostly by the political hacks and taxes and fees and regulations millions of illegal alien foreign nationals that drive up costs of living even more"
59 posted on 12/20/2017 11:02:00 PM PST by Pelham (all warfare is based on deception)
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To: Pelham

That too


60 posted on 12/20/2017 11:16:56 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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