1/3rd of California residents get free healthcare. Now the system is broke . . .

Photo above - California Governor Newsom does a 180 after the election: we just re-ran the numbers, and can't afford free health for everyone - including a million illegal aliens - after all. My bad . . .

Guess how much money California spends on Medicaid to the state's residents. Whatever you said, you’re probably too low. It’s $175 billion. Wait . . . that number just went up. And the debate is whether to borrow the money, raise taxes, cut benefits – or ask DC for (another) bailout. The embers from the LA fire are still smoldering, after all.

Should congress fix this? The federal government already supplies most of the $175 billion for California's health care. About 2/3rds - $110 billion. And state politicians just found out their money pit got $6 billion deeper. How could this happen?

Ahem . . . “someone” in California decided to provide free Medicare to all illegal aliens. The links below are coy, and don’t say who. My guess: a cabal of politicians seeking re-election.

Each California Medicaid (Medi-Cal) recipient gets about $12,000 a year in free health care. On average. Your results may vary, based on the amount of smoking you do, as well as alcohol, fentanyl, ketamine, crack, marijuana, etc. The good news is that California DOES have a motorcycle helmet law.

According to "unnamed California officials" when the Medicaid program was expanded to cover illegal aliens “far more people enrolled than we had anticipated”. Yeah, I’d resist having my name published too if I made a ginormous mistake like that costing billions. This could be as big a blunder as draining that reservoir for "maintenance" during peak fire season.

Those unnamed California officials running Medicaid are so out of touch they had no clue about what happens when you give away free stuff. This is inevitable when you elect politicians whose claim to fame is a degree Political Science (Newsom and Pelosi) or as a full time “community organizer” (LA Mayor Karen Bass).

By law California is required to have a balanced state budget, so this week's borrowing stunt is only a short-term solution. And I’m not sure if the GOP controlled congress, or the White House, is going to mail a check to Sacramento to cover this mistake. Last time I looked, California was bragging about its official policy of non-cooperation with federal arrest warrants for felons who are also illegal aliens. But Trump is a notoriously bad negotiator and frequently gets snookered by absurd promises. Like with Putin earlier this month. So, who knows how this phone call with Newsom is going to turn out?

I’m just sayin’ . . .

Medi-Cal and the Federal Government — Policy at a Glance - California Health Care Foundation

California has $6.2 billion Medicaid funding gap – NBC Los Angeles