Thread: California lawmakers propose health coverage for immigrants

Originally Posted by lorrie

Come on MW, we all know the state gets a big fat check from the feds and the state uses the money
for what ever purpose they choose.

Like Jean mentioned in the prior post, the state gets the federal funding for infrastructure and transportation but
does not use the money for what it was allocated for.

California freeways have not been updated, repaired or modernized since pre ww2

I'm certainly not supporting California in this. I'm just telling you where they say the money will come from. Please don't shoot the messenger.

Together, Medicaid and CHIP cover about 45 percent of all children in the state.

And that's in .... Texas. Really?!! Are you kidding me?!! 45% of children in the state of Texas have parents who can't or won't pay their children's doctor and medical bills?!!! Sorry, but that is absolutely disgusting. Either you're gaming the federal government and taxpayers or you're like the old woman who lives in a shoe who has so many children she doesn't know what to do. Good Grief! We learned from our nursery rhymes not to have more children than you can afford to take care of properly.

In order to qualify, you must have an annual household income (before taxes) that is below the following amounts:

Household Size*	Maximum Income Level (Per Year)
1	$23,760
2	$32,040
3	$40,320
4	$48,600
5	$56,880
6	$65,160
7	$73,460
8	$81,780

*For households with more than eight people, add $8,320 per additional person. Always check with the appropriate managing agency to ensure the most accurate guidelines.
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North Carolina Health Choice for Children | Benefits.gov

In order to qualify for this benefit program, you must be a resident of the state of North Carolina, under 19 years of age, not covered by health insurance (including Medicaid), a U.S. national, citizen, legal alien, or permanent resident. *For households with more than eight people, add $8,320 per additional person.

Bottom line is the states and cities pay the lion's share for illegals, anchor babies healthcare and now the gov't plans to contribute even less - AKA - YOU pay MORE city, state, property tax etc. while the fed gov't DOES NOT ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS!

CHIP is funded with excise taxes on cigarettes so smokers pay for it.

"Because CHIP is a capped program, each state is provided an annual CHIP allotment. Every fiscal year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) determines the share of program funding they will pay that year. States must provide matching funds to get their federal funding allotment."


Financing | Medicaid.gov

https://www.medicaid.gov/chip/financing/index.html


CHIP wasn't funded by the federal government, so 600,000 children will lose health insurance by January 2018

Quartz
1 day ago

More for CHIP funds

By next month, 600,000 American children will lose their health insurance. This is where they live.

Hillary Clinton giveth, Donald Trump taketh. (Reuters/Chip East)

WRITTEN BY
Annalisa Merelli
OBSESSION

"America First"
December 15, 2017

Though it was a key promise of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has not yet repealed, or replaced, Obamacare.

This doesn’t mean the Trump administration and current Republican congress haven’t been able to change health care in the US, though. The former has cut funds for Obamacare enrollment outreach and passed regulations that chip away at reproductive-health coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act, while the latter just voted to approve a new tax bill that would end the ACA’s individual mandate, and likely result in rapid insurance premium hikes.

The government doesn’t seem too concerned about children’s health either, based on its failure to renew federal funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Since it passed in 1997, CHIP has been instrumental in ensuring the health care coverage of children in US families that aren’t poor enough to qualify for Medicaid, but cannot afford any other form of insurance. Depending on the state, that includes families with incomes ranging from 300% to 200% of the federal poverty line.

There are 8.9 million children currently enrolled.

The program is financed jointly by the federal and state governments, with federal funds matching state contributions. But when the deadline for funding CHIP through 2018 came on Sept. 30 of this year, the federal government could not agree on a way to keep paying for the program.

Unless Congress passes new legislation to refinance CHIP, the only federal funding available to states for next year will be whatever is left over from each state’s’ yearly federal funds, and limited contributions coming from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That won’t be nearly enough to keep CHIP running through 2018 in any state. And most will have to end the program before spring. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 75% of states will run out of funds for CHIP by the end of March.



So far, 14 states have said they will have to phase out CHIP coverage for children sometime in January 2018.

Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Virginia, and Utah will be the first: In these states alone, over 600,000 children will lose their health care.

State	Affected children
Colorado	74,873
Connecticut	11,000
Texas	452,179
Virginia	67,000
Utah	Not available

https://qz.com/1156953/by-next-month...ere-they-live/

I hope they all run out of money. You breed 'em, you feed 'em and pay their doctors bills.

Originally Posted by MW

I'm certainly not supporting California in this. I'm just telling you where they say the money will come from. Please don't shoot the messenger.

I wasn’t MW and apologize if it came off that way.

I get so frustrated with the traitors in Sacremento taking our money
and giving it to illegal aliens.

E-verify Healthcare...NO benefits to illegal aliens.

Have hospitals and Doctor's report them to ICE

These hospitals and Doctor's offices are a business! Do not aid and abet illegal aliens!

They can go HOME and get healthcare in their country!

You damn right, Beezer. Hospitals and doctors are a HUGE business, 1/6th of the US economy. Can you imagine? People are getting ripped off, overcharged and underserved by this HUGE "business", and 80% of it is "charity", 501 C 3 "charity" hospitals. It's disgusting what this "business" has turned into. Appalling what has happened to our once wonderful and admired medical industry. It's shameful what is going on and Obamacare made it worse, not better. Now they're killing older patients to save "resources" for younger ones. It's putrid. Sarah Palin was telling the truth about the Death Panels. I actually looked it up and it's right there in black and white for hospitals to decide to kill someone off.