Lawmakers in California have halted a first-in-the-nation effort to expand access to its health care exchange to undocumented immigrants living in the state.
At the behest of the state legislature, Covered California, the state's insurance exchange, withdrew its request to sell unsubsidized health plans to people who are here illegally. The withdrawal was first reported by the Sacramento Bee.
Under the Affordable Care Act, people who cannot prove they are in the country legally are barred from purchasing coverage on the exchange.
Immigrants in this situation had pinned their hopes on the state's request for an exemption from that rule, submitted last fall to the federal government. Had it been approved, undocumented Californians would have been allowed to buy Covered California plans and join the roughly 1.3 million other people currently enrolled in the exchange.
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Let them secede!
ReplyDeleteEasy there Cali...smart move. Good to see the "smoke" starting to clear over there and the rationale of who now resides in the White House!
ReplyDeleteNow get your state gov't in check and maybe some DC love could come your way!
Be nasty and the wrath of Trump will fall upon you. Oh yes indeed it will!
I think as long as the insurance isn't subsidized they should be allowed to buy insurance. That way american companies make a profit off the illegal aliens and we know who and where they are.
ReplyDeleteFertilized eggs are people but refugees aren't
ReplyDeleteAnd they wonder why they are broke!!Subsidizing illegal immigration for ANYTHING is costing US citizens and thats thevbottom line! LET them buy private insurance since this is a free county. But the screws to the ones who circumvent the system via emergency rooms. This is one of the primary reason why i pay high preminums.SO today its for everyone including illegals?I think not. That is not fair.
ReplyDeleteDeport all them to cut down on the rest of us our cost.
ReplyDeleteWTF makes resident of Calif. so weird in their thinking?
ReplyDelete11:23 to bad you didn't bother to read the article.
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ReplyDeleteThey are not refugees, they are ILLEGAL ALIENS