You mean working people. 14 million Californians on Medi-Cal means 14 million Hilary voters.
‘Gains in health coverage’
But losses in actual care. This country is at it’s tipping point. California is NOT the model the rest of the States should follow.
They ginned up enough of a socialist spirit to get it not to fail in the ludicrous category.
Of course that, as the greenies like to say, is unsustainable.
“The state has recorded some of the nation’s most dramatic gains in health coverage since 2013 while building a competitive insurance marketplace that offers consumers enhanced protections from high medical bills.”
Great. Let Mexifornia have its own CommieCare program and abandon the disastrous, unconstitutional “Affordable” Care Act.
Democrat playbook: When the truth is working against you make up some “facts”. Write an article based on these “facts.” Repeat.
This works.
... not to fail NOW.
When the bill appears the potemkin village will be repossessed... with torches & pitchforks
And now they’re asking that illegals be allowed into the program. Next, they’ll be asking for subsidies for the squatters on Obamacare, giving failing CA another pipeline to the pockets of taxpayers in sane states run by Republican governors. Too bad we can’t kick some of these Democrat states out of the union.
A Federal program means other states are paying for California via tax payers, not only in California but, in other states.
Not in other states but from other states.
Didn’t Cali petition to include illegals in the plan?
It’s amazing how they can call a defeat a victory.
With articles like this I usually read the comments more than the op-ed itself. I am gratified to see all the Slimes commenters taking the author to the woodshed for such blatant - and inaccurate propaganda.
But the doctors continue to retire as the government uses tax dollars to pay our medical bills. Best of luck finding a doctor with time to make a difficult differential diagnosis. People are going to start dying en masse before 70, just like in Britain. Accurate diagnosis, the art and science of the doctor, will not be made or it will come when it’s too late. The best medical system in the world brought down in two generations (post-Medicare in the late 60’s).
Think VA for all.
October 4, 2016
Bill Clinton has blasted President Obama’s signature piece of legislation — ObamaCare — as “the craziest thing in the world.”
“You’ve got this crazy system where all of a sudden, 25 million more people have health care, and then the people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half and it’s the craziest thing in the world,” the former president railed at a rally in Michigan on Monday.
Clinton also said the system is hurting moderately successful small businesses — ones that aren’t doing poorly enough to be subsidized and fall just above the line.
“On the other hand, the current system works fine if you’re eligible for Medicaid, if you’re a lower-income working person, if you’re already on Medicare or if you get enough subsidies on a modest income that you can afford your health care,” Clinton said.
“But the people getting killed in this deal are the small-business people and individuals who make just a little bit too much to get any of these subsidies,” he added. ...”
http://nypost.com/2016/10/04/bill-clinton-slams-obamacare-as-craziest-thing-in-the-world/
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, I bet many at the Los Angeles Times were severely disappointed when people went in one direction, as opposed to the other.
A friend of mine was just quoted $2500 per month under Covered California. He’s an engineering job shopper, so he isn’t on any employer plan.
That is more then his mortgage, and would basically eat his entire income.
Obamacare are is designed to bankrupt all of us.
If Obamacare is so Great, shouldn’t ALL of our PUBLIC EMPLOYEES be REQUIRED to Enroll in it??
Why should they be Stuck in these expensive and inferior health plans paid for by the taxpayers??
Don’t our PUBLIC EMPLOYEES deserve the Finest Health Insurance the Government has to offer??
It’s working great because it’s frrreeeeeeee!
If Americans won’t revolt over Obamacare they won’t revolt over anything.
The people could collective be on fire, burning like a crisp and these whorespondents would try to tell you why you’re not on fire.
Complicit in treason.
I really hate these apologia for Obamacare. It is malfunctioning in all the ways that sober analysis predicted it would malfunction. All the carrots were made bigger and sweeter, all the sticks were burned and never used.
If you are going to insure everyone, then everyone has to buy insurance, one way or another. You can’t tell millions of people they will be covered if they get sick even if they have no insurance. They will stop paying for insurance.