The handouts continue in the financially strapped Golden State as starting January 1st of 2024, California will be the first state in America to offer free taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal immigrants. The financially troubled state has an estimated 4.4 million illegal immigrants, including children born in the United States. The massive bill for taking care of the law-breaking migrants will be passed along to legal residents already struggling to make ends meet in Joe Biden’s America.
California Governor Gavin Newsom took time from NOT preparing to run for president in 2024 by announcing a budget agreement with the Democrat-controlled legislature that would include taxpayer subsidies to pay for healthcare for illegal aliens in the state. California residents are stretched dangerously thin by high taxes and insane regulations as it is. How citizens will react to giving even more handouts to lawbreaking illegals remains to be seen.
Newsom announced the plan in a statement: “With these new investments, California will become the first state to achieve universal access to health care coverage.” The freebies will be available to all 4.4 million illegals as long as they are low-income. The program, which is called Medi-Cal, is the state’s taxpayer-funded version of Medicaid. Previously, only American-born children of illegal aliens were eligible for former Governor Jerry Brown’s handout plan.
Newsom expanded the eligibility age for Medi-Cal to illegals over 50 and included those aged 19-25 as well. The latest age requirement changes are set to add approximately 764,000 people to the taxpayer-funded rolls. This hasn’t come without warnings from elected Republicans in the state who have warned that expanding taxpayer-funded insurance to illegal migrants “will certainly exacerbate current provider access problems” since the giveout “is already strained by serving 14.6 million Californians — more than a third of the state’s population.”
It is a precarious time for California. Numerous companies are picking up and moving, citing high taxes, insane regulations, and spiking crime. Meanwhile, some of the richest residents in the state have left, including Elon Musk, Mark Wahlberg, and Joe Rogan, among others. They have fled because of the deteriorating conditions of Los Angeles and San Francisco and the ongoing drug, crime, and homeless issues, making the cities unlivable.
California’s population has dropped below 39 million residents as folks seek safer, more livable conditions in red states like Texas, Nevada, Florida, and Tennessee. The year prior, almost 300,000 residents left, which topped the country for departures. The estimated bill to taxpayers clocks in around $2.4 billion annually, and despite the state’s flailing economy, Newsom continues to plow ahead with handouts and social services to people who are in direct violation of American law.
Nationwide, Americans are already forced to subsidize nearly $18.5 billion of the medical costs for people who are here illegally, and most polls show that Americans are fed up with footing the bill for folks who jumped the line and came to the country without permission. It is a situation that doesn’t look to improve anytime soon. Joe Biden continues to ignore an open border, and states like California have essentially hung an “open” sign that taxpayers are paying for.
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