This State Is Close To Giving Illegal Immigrants Something Astonishing At Taxpayers' Expense

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According to recent reports, one California state lawmaker is hoping to add yet another incentive to the list of benefits already enticing foreign citizens to illegally cross America’s southern border. Democrat State Sen. Ricardo Lara presented a proposal this week designed to provide illegal immigrants with the same subsidized Medicaid coverage its poor residents receive.

The Medi-Cal program, as it is called in California, would be extended to include roughly 2 million illegals currently living in the state. Specifically, Lara prepared the measure so that approximately a quarter-million illegal minors would be covered through one facet of the program while low-income illegal adults could receive the same benefits through a separate channel.

Those financially able to do so would be allowed to – with federal permission – purchase their own plan through California’s health insurance exchange.

“We are talking about our friends,” Lara said in defense of his proposal. “We are talking about our neighbors and our families who are denied basic healthcare in the richest state of this union.”

His optimistic analysis of the program, however, was challenged by several Senate Republicans.

“This bill would only add hundreds of thousands of patients to the rolls with no one to care for them,” warned State Sen. Jeff Stone.

Fellow GOP State Sen. Andy Vidak agreed, concluding that “the taxpayers are already paying high healthcare costs for undocumented [immigrants] when they show up in our emergency rooms.”

If approved, Lara’s plan would make California the first state in the nation to offer such healthcare benefits to illegals.

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BCN editor’s note: This article first appeared at Western Journalism.

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  1. Why not just turn over the keys to the white house and let them take charge. Not to worry we are going bankrupt and soon there will be nothing to give them.. Just make sure you have your self-defense supply’s in place, cleaned oiled and loaded.