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[quote=Anonymous]In January 2024, California became the very first state to open its Medicaid program, called Medi-Cal, to every undocumented immigrant within its borders. Some 700,000 adults between the ages of 26 and 49 now qualify for publicly funded health coverage.

It’s the fourth expansion of the program to undocumented immigrants, after kids 18 and under became eligible in 2015, young adults 25 and younger in 2019 and those over the age of 50 in 2022.

Newsome thought the expansion of all adults would cost around 2 billion dollars. It is costing BILLIONS more. [b]California spends about $8.5 billion a year from the general fund to cover free health insurance for immigrants who are in the country without legal authorization, according to the Newsom administration’s estimates.[/b]

To put in comparison CA used to spend more money on higher education. The University of California receives $10.8 billion in total core funding for education (UC's also have medical centers which if you look at overall UC spending includes health care centers). Of this amount, 53 percent comes from tuition and fee revenue ($5.7 billion), 43 percent comes from state General Fund ($4.6 billion).    Higher education spending accounted for 18% of the state budget in 1976–77, but by 2016–17 higher education funding had fallen to 12% of the budget. It is now 8%!

This is why so many middle class Democrats in CA are upset. So many services and opportunities that made CA a fantastic place to live are being chipped away. The average class size at my kids CA high school is staffed at an average of 36. This means they are sitting in AP classes of 40+ because they pack honors/AP classes so classes where students need more help have under 30. And then they apply to UC schools and they are much harder to get in and tuition has drastically increased from when we attended UC's in the late 80's and 90's.

So of course we all want every California child to be insured regardless of immigration status, but CA can't afford to pay for every adult regardless of immigration status to get free healthcare when other states do not. There is no waiting period for CA residency for medi-cal. Need expensive surgery, dialysis, cancer treatment, drug addiction treatment (there are rehabs that are paid for by Medi-cal that run advertisements in other states with promos come to rehab in CA, it's free they "treat" them for 30 days or 90 days until they money runs dry or they relapse then they kick them out to become homeless in CA), etc. [/quote]

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