Royce West has the same type of bill that he is pushing here in Texas.
His bill proposes that anybody who lives with in 200 percent of the poverty line they get free health care.
AND THE COUNTIES HAVE TO PICK UP THE TAB. That would cost Denton County somewhere around 5 million tax dollars with in the first year, easy.
Currently Indigent Health Care is with in 21 percent.
Oh, great Royce West---he of the great ideas!!!
In the article it says that the people would be means tested so that they would pay premiums, deductibles, etc., according to their incomes---so the rich will have to pay a lot more than they do now, plus pay for the indigent care that all of us pay for, plus the higher costs of medicine, medical supplies---
Also, there was a paragraph expounding on the problem of bankruptcies caused by medical costs even if you have insurance---first, why would that stop if, like they previous sentence said, they filed even when they had insurance--so how would this change that?
Second, I don't know about California, but I know here in Texas, you can't be sued for unpaid medical bills and they can't charge you interest, so there is no reason to file for bankruptcy for medical bills.
We had a rough time a few years ago and ended up with a lot of post insurance medical bills--all I did was call every doctor, therapist, hospital, etc., and set up a payment plan based on what I could pay and I paid them off--not one penny of interest and it never went on my credit report because I made a good faith effort to pay bills---