Posted on 06/04/2016 2:36:58 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
During a 2009 address to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama told the country that his plans for health care reform would not extend to people who are in the country illegally.
"You lie!" South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson notoriously shouted. Obama replied, "That's not true."
But only two years after the largest coverage provisions in the Affordable Care Act took effect, the country's most populous state has passed a bill that, in fact, seeks to extend Obamacare to people regardless of their immigration status.
The bill, now before California Gov. Jerry Brown, aims to allow people who are in the country illegally to buy private health insurance on the state's exchange. Its author, Democratic state Sen. Ricardo Lara estimates that 390,000 such immigrants could receive health insurance, but officials who operate the exchange place that number closer to 50,000.
The legislation is being considered not only at a time when presidential candidates are campaigning in the Golden State but as those running have made health care and illegal immigration central platforms in their bids for the Oval Office, finding that their views on the topics have ignited voters' passions. To critics of the law, the bill signals another broken promise of Obamacare.
Obamacare explicitly bars people in the country illegally from its provisions, but a loophole called the "innovation waiver" allows for states to change portions of the law, as long as they make coverage available to more people and as long as the federal government doesn't have to pick up the tab, among other requirements. The bill, which would require that a request for a waiver be filed, first must be approved by the state legislature and the governor before the waiver can be considered by the federal government.
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Is the American worker and taxpayer really going to stand for this?
What are we supposed to do. The schools teach our kids that our borders are evil. The courts overturn our ballot propositions. The people we elect to shrink government join big government.
Just where are these huge bags of cash that liberals believe are just laying around and how do I find one?
That was the original intention.
Gerry Brown = Brown nose Gerry
Can you imagine what the Founders would do in response?
Why in the HELL would an ILLEGAL ALIEN Sign up to PAY for Obamacare even with an 80-90% subsidy, Which would still cost them money
WHEN THEY GET FREE MEDICAL CARE NOW AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL that just put a lein on your house for $25,000 for those 6 stitches you got last month?????
“Sen. Ricardo Lara estimates that 390,000 such immigrants “
There are OVER 1 Million ILLEGAL ALIENS in Los Angeles County Alone!!!
Nearly 3 million out of the 11.4 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally are living in California. Of that population, roughly 60% of them are living in six Southern California in Los Angeles,Orange, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura Counties.
Hate to be a spoiler, but free healthcare has been available for the last twenty years in California and in Massachusetts for our non-invited guests...
You would be STUNNED how many illegals are mooching on the healthcare system here in Massachusetts. My upstairs neighbors come from Guatemala...
“The bill, which would require that a request for a waiver be filed, first must be approved by the state legislature and the governor before the waiver can be considered by the federal government.”
All the more reason to elect Trump!
Gov Jerry Brown needs to step away from the bong if he thinks this will work-even mojados aren’t dumb enough to pay for anything on an exchange when they can get the same- faster and better, too-just by walking into any emergency room-what a dumbass...
These people are destroying the United States.
More insanity from the “progressive” morons running Kalifornia.
11.4 million?
More like 40 - 50 million illegal scum.
NWO rolls on. It isn’t pretty to watch.
The weather is nice there.
I live in CA and our HMO Health Insurance is $1,900 a Month. That does include a Dental and Vision Plan, which runs about $100 a Month. That is for two Adults in their early 60’s.
I love waking up everyday feeling like a Fool while being treated like one by our La Raza Legislators and Governor.
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