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California’s Healthy Kids programs fade as undocumented children gain access to Medi-Cal
Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 09/03/16 | Jocelyn Wiener

Posted on 09/03/2016 7:40:35 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Baby Sergio’s fever was spiking. His parents had just arrived here from Mexico with no papers, no money, no family, no friends.

The parents tried bringing down the fever, but it didn’t work. The baby started convulsing. An ambulance whisked the terrified young family to a hospital. There, a social worker met with them.

Baby Sergio’s fever was spiking. His parents had just arrived here from Mexico with no papers, no money, no family, no friends.

The parents tried bringing down the fever, but it didn’t work. The baby started convulsing. An ambulance whisked the terrified young family to a hospital. There, a social worker met with them.

“Don’t worry, señora,” the social worker told Maria as she signed Sergio up for a program called Healthy Kids. She handed the anxious mother an insurance card. the social worker told Maria as she signed Sergio up for a program called Healthy Kids. She handed the anxious mother an insurance card.

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“Don’t worry, señora,”


Yeah don't worry the stupid gringos will pick up the tab. My wife and I are paying $28,000 per year for our insurgence policy plus co-pays plus out of pocket plus what we pay in taxes. Yeah don't freaking worry leave that to us poor stupid American citizens.

1 posted on 09/03/2016 7:40:35 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Alas, the American citizens collectively brought all of this about.


2 posted on 09/03/2016 7:43:16 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, 2016)
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To: artichokegrower

Deport them back to Mexico and let the Mexican government take care of them.


3 posted on 09/03/2016 7:48:55 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: artichokegrower

I believe in human compassion. But if America fades, we can help no one.

A thousand years of darkness???


4 posted on 09/03/2016 7:51:45 PM PDT by doug from upland
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To: artichokegrower
What about all the other "little Sergios" all over the world who have fevers and are convulsing? Are we just going to let them die?

California should have air ambulances to fly all over the world to pick them up and take them back to California.

sarc/

5 posted on 09/03/2016 7:51:54 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: doug from upland

A thousand years of darkness???

++

For more than a year my tagline was

“If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years”.

Still true.


6 posted on 09/03/2016 7:58:13 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: artichokegrower

California is done.


7 posted on 09/03/2016 7:58:20 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Drango

Trust me, I live here and Ive known for a long time its been done..walk the streets of LA and you know its done..Ronald Reagan loved this state, build his presidential library here, adored this state, he is looking down from heaven in total disbelief at what has happened..he wouldnt recognize it anymore


8 posted on 09/03/2016 8:01:18 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Drango

In the meantime young families in the US are working two jobs and eating hot dogs to pay their health insurance.


9 posted on 09/03/2016 8:02:56 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: artichokegrower

If I were you and in good health, I would stop paying such an outrageous premium and self insure.


10 posted on 09/03/2016 8:06:57 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Only idiot liberals believe that disarming the sheep makes them safe from the wolves.)
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To: Theodore R.

What do you mean, we brought all this about?

We voted against it here in California in 1994.

One judge overturned it. Then a newly elected governor drowned the law by using a scam along with the Reconquista terrorists who mau mau the populace when they get any resistance.

We dumped that SOB.

But between GWB and BHO, we got no relief.

Believe me pal, nobody I know likes paying taxes in California to pay for Mexico’s problems.


11 posted on 09/03/2016 8:09:37 PM PDT by Regulator
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So, what is the better investment?

Non-Americans who owe nothing to America, who share none of our values, refuse to embrace our culture, who have only an intention of taking whatever they can from our welfare system.

Or a random American who is an American through and through. Who may, or may not ever go to college, who may or may not ever start a company; but more than likely WILL start a family, pay taxes and devote the rest of his life trying to better himself and this country?

I vote Americans every single time.


12 posted on 09/03/2016 8:16:12 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: artichokegrower

>Baby Sergio’s fever was spiking. His parents had just arrived here from Mexico with no papers, no money, no family, no friends.

Why are these morons pinching off kids they can’t raise properly? Drop them all off in the desert on their border.


13 posted on 09/03/2016 8:32:29 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I am native Californian and love the state too, but I can’t live there any more for more reasons than one.


14 posted on 09/03/2016 8:33:49 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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Maria believes that little card saved her son’s life repeatedly over the next several years, allowing him to have regular checkups and paying for crucial surgeries and medical care.

What do you think that one little kid cost us for his surgeries and medical care? Disgusting!


15 posted on 09/03/2016 8:35:18 PM PDT by sheana
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Cuba should step up to the plate since they have such superb healthcare./s


16 posted on 09/03/2016 8:35:21 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: artichokegrower

And don’t forget all those proud middle men that all this baksheesh feeds too! This can’t be like stupid CHARITY where they actually dedicate themselves to efficiency of the benevolences.


17 posted on 09/03/2016 8:39:21 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Maria believes that little card ... pay[ed] for crucial surgeries and medical care.

It wasn't the "little card" that payed for those expensive surgeries and care.

18 posted on 09/03/2016 8:40:05 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Oldexpat
In the meantime young families in the US are working two jobs and eating hot dogs to pay their health insurance.

And from what I understand, each adult has to work part time, because of Obamacare. So they get two part-time jobs, because employers don't want to have to pay insurance for full-time workers.

Imagine the running around, stress and hassle for people in the private sector. In fact, if they have young children and can't afford day care, many families split the work (one parent works at night; the other during the day). So they get no quality couple time whatsoever; few if any home-cooked meals, family time, etc. What does that do to a marriage?

I may be wrong, and please correct me if I am.

19 posted on 09/03/2016 8:41:53 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: Seaplaner

But the system itself took a cut, plus encouraged the cost of the care itself to skyrocket.

There is nothing wrong with benevolences; there is everything wrong with making cash cows out of guilt trips.


20 posted on 09/03/2016 8:42:19 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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