California is a state that miscalculated costs for the state run Medicaid program by $1.9 billion. The state is reckoned to have a $1.6 billion deficit, and Governor Jerry Brown wants to reduce the state budget by $3 billion because of these problems. The inflow of tax money is down. Jobs are leaving. Costs for businesses are up. Costs for citizens are up. The state is the 4th highest in the nation for cost of living. Covered California, the name for the Obamacare plan for the state, has the same problems as everywhere else: ever increasing premiums and deductibles, people can’t afford to use the insurance, doctors aren’t taking it, there are long waits for those doctors that do, and the state is constantly having to give the program more and more money. And, remember this?
1 in 2 Californian children depend on Medicaid. This plan's cuts to Medicaid attacks those who need heath care most. https://t.co/GBRQkFO0st
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) February 24, 2017
Does 1 in 2 California children depending on Medicaid seem like some kind of California success story to you? https://t.co/NWzS27PrpR
— ConservativeLA (@ConservativeLA) February 25, 2017
Well, let’s make sure we double down on failure:
With Obamacare in jeopardy, California considers going it alone with ‘single-payer’ system
With President Trump now vowing to put forward a replacement for the Affordable Care Act in March, some California politicians and healthcare advocates are once again promoting the idea of a state-run “single-payer” system that operates like Medicare.
Backers say the uncertainty surrounding Trump’s promise to repeal Obamacare presents California with a chance to rethink how healthcare is delivered to its 39 million residents.
“Why wouldn’t we take this as an opportunity to create what we want in California?” Dr. Mitch Katz, head of L.A. County’s health department, said at a conference in December. He mentioned a single-payer system as a possible solution.
Other suggestions for how California can capitalize on the threat to Obamacare include creating a public option, a state-run health plan to sell on the state’s insurance exchange, and mimicking how Massachusetts provided universal healthcare.
In fact:
State Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) introduced a bill Friday that would make California the first state to adopt single-payer, also called “Medicare for all.” Canada has such a system.
What might this look like?
Previous proposals in California suggested financing the agency by pooling the state’s current funding for Medicaid, Medicare and other health programs and then taxing employees 4% of their income and employers 7% of payroll.
Hey, it’s their state, let them do what they want, if we believe in States Rights. It would be a great way to show just how much Leftism would fail. They should do it quickly. Just don’t expect the Republican Congress nor President Trump to bail them out.
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As a Republican #TRUMP/PENCE supporter and Senior on Medicare, We do not want Gov Brown to try something that will hurt all of us, just because he has so seriously mismanaged CA, and then we are doomed because #Trump will not bail us out.
ReplyDeleteWait for the overall successful plan being put forth by our 45th POTUS #TRUMP.
The only problem with allowing California to do what it wants, is that the Leftists will flee and spread their disease to healthy, sane states. I suggest we build a wall around California and shoot them if they try to escape.
ReplyDeleteaS GOES cALIFORNIA SO GOES ny, ct, mASS., ri, iLLINOIS, Washington.
Let them burn.
Its a pleasant surprise to see a Trump supporter in California. :)
ReplyDeleteNot medicare for all. Medicare for all is not self sustaining. It depends on an increasing younger workers paying for the healthcare of (richer) retired workers - a pyramid scheme.
ReplyDeleteThis is medicaid for all.