Thread: Under Trump California Medi-Cal Forced to End Free Health Care for Illegal Aliens

Under Trump California Medi-Cal Forced to End Free Health Care for Illegal Aliens

November 13, 2016

Last Tuesday California passed Prop. 52, which creates higher hospital costs for patients with the money going to Medi-Cal. We passed Prop. 56, the tobacco tax, with the money being stolen from education and given to Medi-Cal. Why do the sick have to pay more and students get less, thanks to Medi-Cal? In 2015 Gov Brown signed a bill that gives FREE health care, via Medi-Cal, to 200,000 illegal aliens. Brown has asked the Obama Administration for an exemption from ObamaCare, so California can give free Medi-Cal coverage to over 1,000,000 illegal aliens.

President Trump will be enforcing our immigration laws—meaning the 200,000 will have to be taken off and the one million can still get free health care—in their native land.

“Under the Affordable Care Act, 32 states expanded Medicaid, so that more people would qualify for the benefits. Health policy experts say states that embraced it the most could feel the changes the worst.

“Winding back the clock would create all kinds of turbulence and disruption,” says Larry Levitt, senior vice president for special initiatives at the Kaiser Family Foundation.”

Under Trump, Medi-Cal may return to its real purpose—a safety net for those Californians in need.




What Happens to Medi-Cal Under a Trump Administration?

By April Dembosky, KQED, 11/11/16

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed that he will repeal Obamacare and replace it with something “better.” Specifics are scarce, but one plan Trump has outlined is to change how the federal government funds Medicaid, health coverage for low-income people.

Under the Affordable Care Act, 32 states expanded Medicaid, so that more people would qualify for the benefits. Health policy experts say states that embraced it the most could feel the changes the worst.

“Winding back the clock would create all kinds of turbulence and disruption,” says Larry Levitt, senior vice president for special initiatives at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Twenty million Americans now have health coverage because of Obamacare. A full quarter of them are in California. And most of them are covered by Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program.

Right now, the federal government shares the cost of Medicaid with the states, no matter how many people are enrolled. But Trump wants to cap that funding, and just give states one fixed grant.

“A block grant would give California greater flexibility in running the Medi-Cal program, but it would also give the state less money,” Levitt says.

In California, 62 percent of new Medi-Cal enrollees are Latino, African-American or Asian-American.

“The effect is magnified in California in part because the state has been so successful in getting people signed up for coverage,” Levitt says.

Some states could pay doctors and hospitals less to save money. But in California, payment rates are already the second lowest in the country.

“California can’t really pay much less than it does to providers,” says Gerald Kominski, UCLA health policy professor. “These are going to be very, very difficult choices.”

Under one Republican plan, the amount of block grants would be based on Medi-Cal enrollment levels before the Affordable Care Act was implemented. Kominski says, in that scenario, the only choice California really would have is to reduce services or reduce the number of people who get Medi-Cal.

“That would have a devastating consequence on the Medicaid expansion population in California, and would basically put everyone who’s been newly enrolled in the program back off the program,” he says.

It’s unclear how soon a Trump administration would change Medicaid funding, so health advocates are encouraging people to continue signing up for Medicaid and other coverage during the current Obamacare open enrollment season.

“California is not an island,” says Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access, adding that the state “must engage fully in the coming national debate on the future of health reform — especially as an example of what has been achieved, and what we can’t give up.”

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Trump is already helping California. That's good!! California may go red in 2 to 4 years when they see the benefits of our policies and how it helps them, too. But we'll have to get out the message, because we now know that we can't rely on the CORRUPT MEDIA to tell the truth about anything.