I was told by Democrats and the Credentialed Media that government is not providing healthcare/insurance to illegals
California Will Spend 28x More On Healthcare For Illegals Than State Law Enforcement
California expects to spend 28 times more on health benefits for illegal aliens than on state police in the 2025-2026 budget period.
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s final budget allocates $348 million to law enforcement while the state’s own budget experts in an October report estimate the tab for giving full health benefits for illegal aliens amounts to $10 billion. The new report by the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) reveals a 35% higher figure than the $7.4 billion cost Newsom estimated in his January 2025 budget proposal.
California’s joint state-federal Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, provides comprehensive coverage for doctor’s visits, medications, and dental and vision care for 1.7 million illegal aliens, who represent 11% of the program’s enrollees, according to the LAO report. Illegal immigrants’ health benefits will consume a fourth of the Medi-Cal money flowing from state coffers.
Expansions of the policy to include illegal aliens of any age on Medi-Cal drove spending on the program skyward to more than double the initial estimates, LAO’s report says.
While on paper the state must only use its own funds for illegal immigrants, in practice, California obtains federal Medicaid dollars for its pet priorities through complex accounting.
Obvioiusly, Newsom’s own budget and California’s spending is fake news. It can’t be real. I was told so.
I wonder if the cops in the People’s Republik of California will finally say they’ve had enough, and retire, retire early, or just head to other states. And the PRC will start getting even more illegals streaming into the state, causing the actual costs to skyrocket for healthcare, insurance, food, and more.
Mr Teach VERY UPSET over the proposed budget of a state he does not even live in.
1,700,000,000 1.7 BILLION DOLLARS SO MUCH MONEY
Cali people are behaving like real Christians. Wasn’t that the real message of Jesus ? Lol teach should he happy they do that.
1.7 billion is such a large number! How significant is it?? Not so much
Cali state budget is 321 billion
So need one that commie! Is proposing 0.5% of his budget to go to healthcare for migrants.
Meh.
Migrants pay an estimated 8.5 Billion each year in state and local taxes in Cali
The DDS (Dem Derangement Syndrome) is overpowering his rationality. Like when he blamed Dems in NJ for the decision of the actual owner of the Oyster Creek Nuke to close that 50 year old plant down because rebuilding it made no sense economically
Perhaps ICE can then use the records of this spending to find more illegals and give them the boot?
$1,7 billion sure sounds like a lot of money to me! The Pyrite State has a huge problem with homeless people in their cities, and many/most of the homeless are actual American citizens. Shouldn’t the government be taking care of Americans first, rather than people who are not supposed to be here?