Jason Cohen
The Democratic Governor of California Gavin News says that he will not end health care supported by taxpayers for illegal migrants, although there are no billions of state healthcare funds.
On Monday, the governor turned to the state legislators to grant a loan worth $ 2.8 billion to cover expenses on Med-Cal, the version of the Federal Medicaid program, California, According to Calmatters. This request was an addition to a loan worth $ 3.4 billion, which the administration of news to News borrowed from the state at the beginning of March in order to make payments for Medi-Cal until the end of the month-in total expenses about the furious $ 6.2 billion above what is the state budget.
“Not on my document,” said reporters on Tuesday, when he asked if he would cut Medi-Cal for people living in this country, According to Kcra 3.
Despite the refusal to consider the restriction of health services funded by the illegal migrants, he confirmed that incorporating them in the program contributed to the balloon costs.
“It was something that we presented in the January budget, something that I presented in other conversations with other governors in December in a democratic Association of Governors as a matter that we see throughout the country,” said the governor on Tuesday on Tuesday.
In January 2024, California became First state In the USA, offer health care insurance financed by taxpayers all illegal low -income immigrants, regardless of age. Earlier, illegal migrants did not have qualifications to receive medi-in services, but they were allowed to receive services related to emergency and pregnancy, if they met certain requirements for qualifications.
Over the past decade, California Democrats have slowly expanded the range of Medi-Cal on all illegal low income migrants. About 700,000 illegal migrants was expected According to Calmatters, to get a full range at Medi-Cal in December 2023. In December 2023, almost 15 million Californians want health care by Medi-Cal.
However, state officials admit that more illegal migrants are enrolled in Med-Cal than originally expected.
Michelle Bass, director of the California Department of Health Care Services, which supervises Med-Cal, estimated in January 2024. $ 2.7 billion more than what he budget to cover prescriptions and healthcare costs for newly saved migrants. But according to updated estimates, California costs about $ 8.5 billion from the general fund to cover illegal migrants.
Other factors also contributed to the growing costs of MEDI-Cal, such as increased registration by seniors, growing pharmaceutical costs and an increased number of records regarding the Covid-19 pandemic.
In 2015, the then GOV. Jerry Brown signed an account enabling illegal children of migrants to join the program. News signed a second bill in 2019 by expanding the range of juvenile illegal adult migrants aged 19–25, and re -expanded his rights in 2021 to illegal adult migrants at the age of 50 and older. The last age group, 26–49, was entitled to submit an application in January 2024.
“Just a few days after the news administration has announced a loan worth $ 3.4 billion to cover MEDI-Cal for illegal immigrants, now they are trying to secure an additional $ 2.8 billion to maintain the program solvent until June,” said Brian Jones, leader of the California Senate minority Brian Jones in social media. “Californians should not be forced to bear the burden of reckless improper management of radical finances of democrats.”
Jones is not the only Republican of California, which is offensive in connection with rapid healthcare costs for people who do not live in the USA legally.
“It is absolute madness and the fact that this is not news on the first page and discussed on every local news-it is absolutely a crisis and deserves the attention of all Californians”, the Republican California Assembly of California Carl Demaio he said on Tuesday. “We must immediately cancel insurance for illegal immigrants in the state of California, we simply cannot afford it.”
“Simply not only the justification of the poor Californians – the elderly, disabled, young children – at risk, because politicians from California want free leaflets to people who are not even citizens” – continued Demaio.
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Jason Cohen is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Gavin News” by News Governor.
