Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes healthcare mandate, Medi-Cal expansion
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#2Be wary of any healthcare mandate: it’s a device by which major health insurance carriers compel already poor people to sink money into overpriced plans that cover very little and come with numerous strings attached. Between high deductibles and mandatory coinsurance these plans are not coverage: they’re extortion.
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#4Why should California tax payers provide health insurance to illegal immigrants?
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#5Be wary of any healthcare mandate: it’s a device by which major health insurance carriers compel already poor people to sink money into overpriced plans that cover very little and come with numerous strings attached. Between high deductibles and mandatory coinsurance these plans are not coverage: they’re extortion.
it's supposed to be single payer, i.e. govt owned and negotiated rates should be lower than something like obamacare exchanges
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#6There goes California's balanced budget.
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#7Why should California tax payers provide health insurance to illegal immigrants?
because they provide services that you rely on and do jobs that legal migrants and citizens aren't going to do
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#8There goes California's balanced budget.
If you redirect the money both employees and employeers spend on healthcare- not necessarily.
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#9Why should California tax payers provide health insurance to illegal immigrants?
Because it's the compassionate thing to do?
Also because it's much cheaper.
Re: Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes healthcare mandate, Medi-Cal expansion
#10Why should California tax payers provide health insurance to illegal immigrants?
because they provide services that you rely on and do jobs that legal migrants and citizens aren't going to do
Maybe if we could pay citizens fair market price for their labor we wouldn't have to rely on illegal immigrants.