California Robs Citizens, Funds Illegal Migrant’s Health Care

California’s Governor Gavin Newsom has established a plan to radically expand the state’s Medicaid system to provide healthcare coverage to hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants.

700,000 illegal residents in California between the ages of 26 and 49 will now be eligible for free health insurance thanks to an update to the Medi-Cal program, which took effect January 1. This expansion to the Medi-Cal program is anticipated to cost taxpayers up to $3.1 billion per year.

Up to this point, California has offered illegal migrants free insurance since 2019 if they were under the age of 26, and for those who were older, they were only permitted emergency and pregnancy-related services.

Governor Newsom previously boasted the program as being “a transformative step towards strengthening the healthcare system for all Californians … In California, we believe everyone deserves access to quality, affordable health care coverage – regardless of income or immigration status.”

The dangerous end goal of Newsom’s program is to fulfill every socialist’s dream – “free” universal health care but as we well know, nothing is really ever “free”. Someone has to pay for these services and, unfortunately, it’s taxpayers who will feel the burden of this new policy.

California currently has a $68 billion dollar deficit; it is wicked to place more of a financial burden upon the citizens of California and the generations to come that will have to pay it off.

Newsom’s updates will ultimately cost Californian’s $1.2 billion during the first six months of implementation and $3.1 billion each year that it is in place. As of today, however, the program in totality has already cost the people of California $37 billion.

Residents have been feeling the negative repercussions of the invasion at the southern border, and once they heard about the expansion of Newsom’s socialist health care plan, they were rightfully upset with the immoral policy. As such, many in the government are starting to take a stand against Newsom.

California’s Senate Republican Caucus wrote a budget analysis last year which stated, “Medi-Cal is already strained by serving 14.6 million Californians – more than a third of the state’s population … Adding 764,000 more individuals to the system will certainly exacerbate current provider access problems.”

Perspective

To the masses, giving services to others for “free” sounds pleasant and even compassionate, but is it?

Universal Health Care (or socialized medicine) is yet another step Newsom is taking in his long policy march towards socialism. Regardless of the field of discussion, production is key and innovation is desirable. Socialism hinders both whilst producing suffering and stagnation.

And what about doctors who will be forced to implement the updated, socialist program? Well, the vast majority of doctors don’t even like socialized medicine due to its regimentation, the inevitable lack of resources, higher costs, the destruction of the doctor-patient relationship and the list goes on and on.

If California’s government seeks to accomplish by force that which could occur voluntarily through private organizations, individuals and so on, the result will be what socialist countries experience – they have fewer and poorer doctors, long waiting lists, lessened resources and increased suffering. Is this really the situation California wants?

If Governor Newsom really wanted to ensure everyone within California’s borders was taken care of, moving the state inline with socialism will only lower the standard of living for everyone, including the illegal migrants flooding into the state.

Nothing about that sounds pleasant nor compassionate.

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