“In the current year, to cover undocumented individuals in Medi-Cal, we’re spending $9.5 billion total funds,” replied a CDOF official, who stated $8.4 billion of that comes from the state’s basic fund. Hospitals don’t flip sufferers away and non-taxpaying, non-citizens, are making the most of the well being care system that’s struggling to keep up the brand new surplus of sufferers.
Martin Luther King Jr. Neighborhood Hospital CEO Dr. Elaine Batchlor famous that state funding projected round 30,000 sufferers yearly to her 30-bed emergency room division. By 2023, that determine quadrupled with 76% of sufferers being on Medi-Cal. “We lose money on every one of those patient visits—a significant amount,” stated Batchelor in an announcement. “As the volume grew and continues to grow, we began to lose more and more money.”
The state is spending practically $10 BILLION on well being care prices for migrants on the expense of Californians who’re already going through record-high taxation. All of those proposed state budgets have been estimated earlier than the wildfires. California Funds and Coverage Middle said federal spending in California is estimated to be $171 billion this fiscal yr, which is over one-third of the full $493 billion state and federal finances for the state. Once more, they didn’t consider the price of rebuilding after the devastating fires.
Advantage signaling is pricey. California’s state finances has exploded previously 5 years, growing by 63% to over $200 billion. As compared, Florida’s finances elevated by half that quantity. I personally learn by the LAO’s proposed finances for FY25-26. The report concluded that California is “double-digit operating deficits in the years to come” because of reckless authorities spending. Once more, this was BEFORE the wildfires!
Spending progress from 2025-26 to 2028-29 is 5.8%, above the common of three.5%. Development over the identical interval is simply above 4%, “lower than its historical average largely due to policy choices that end during the forecast window. Taken together, we view it as unlikely that revenue growth will be fast enough to catch up to ongoing spending.”
The LAO clearly said that GOVERNMENT SPENDING is destroying the state. The LAO suggests: “Legislature would need to address in the coming years, for example, by reducing spending, increasing taxes, shifting costs, or using more reserves. The magnitude of these deficits also indicates that, without other changes to spending or revenues, the state does not have capacity for new commitments.”
GET THE HELL OUT OF CALIFORNIA OR PREPARE TO PAY FOR FAILED BLUE POLICIES!!
