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Democrats, who have a monopoly of power in California politics, are proposing to spend $1 billion a year to provide health care to illegal immigrants living in the state. Medi-Cal, which is the state's Medicaid program, would eliminate legal residency requirements.
The proposal was offered as part of a $4.3 billion proposal from San Francisco Democrat Assemblyman Phil Ting, the head of the Assembly budget committee.
According to NBC Bay Area, 7% of people residing in California lack health coverage, many of them illegal immigrants.
California has
already eliminated legal residency requirements for Medicaid coverage for people under 19; Ting's proposal would extend that to all ages.
According to the Heritage Foundation, the average low-skill immigrant household costs American taxpayers nearly $20,000 per year.
Comment: Sounds like the democrats have been smoking to much of the green stuff. Then again, being a
sanctuary state, why not make more enticing for people to come stay illegally? Though the sign below turned out to be a
fake, it sums it up nicely - democrats need the votes!
© Kambree Kawahine Koa/TwitterA fake Sanctuary State sign placed on the 15 Freeway between California and Nevada.
Republicans would prefer that they die without health care.
And the Heritage Foundation is wrong, because they do not factor in all the cheap labor performed by illegal immigrants, who are very often working with substandard wages under bad conditions. Calculate how much it would cost to have citizens doing all that.
I've been around immigrants in California a lot. They're nicer than the gringo bigots who hate them! They don't deserve the hatred they're receiving as the scapegoat of choice of the Orange Dictator.