Friday, June 19, 2015

150 million new Medical customers

The California Senate’s Appropriations Committee passed SB 4 to give health care to all illegal/undocumented  aliens. Breitbart News estimates that based on the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office projections, SB 4 will cost at least $1 billion, and the cost will undoubtedly go much higher over time.

With the state’s fiscal year winding down through June 30th, Sacramento politicians are furiously competing to spend a piece of the state’s $3 billion in “surplus” cash.
Folks not familiar with California?  A couple of facts.

1) To qualify as a legal illegal alien requires a mailing address.
2) Just conservatively that must be 150 million people.

So, California's floundering legislature needs to explain where the profit is, otherwise it is bankruptcy time, many, many laid off public sector workers.  I guess the other question is why our experts in political economy up in Berkeley missed this whole episode? We are not asking them to turn the legislature into economists, god forbid; but how about helping them with a little arithmetic and logic.

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