California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has requested a $2.8 billion bailout for taxpayer-funded Medi-Cal, on prime of a further $3.4 billion for the program requested final week.
With $9.5 billion spent by Medi-Cal on unlawful immigrant well being care this yr, Newsom informed a press gaggle that this advantages enlargement was at the least partially guilty. He additionally shared his assist for common taxpayer-funded well being care.
“It’s partial,” stated Newsom, talking to the connection between increasing taxpayer-funded healthcare to unlawful immigrants and the $6.4 billion bailout request. “I believe in universal healthcare … it’s just a core principle.”
Newsom stated rolling again the enlargement will not be on his “docket,” however that he’s open to “changes.”
With an estimated 1.9 million unlawful immigrants and $9.5 billion spent by Medi-Cal on their healthcare, the state is spending roughly $5,000 per unlawful immigrant on healthcare this yr.
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The common unlawful immigrant in California earns $13 per hour, typically in untaxed money, or $27,040 per yr if working 40 hours per week. If taxed, this wage would produce $464 in state earnings taxes. Assuming 30% of remaining earnings goes to lease and the remaining goes to sales-tax certified spending, that’s one other $1,372 in state gross sales taxes.
This implies a working unlawful immigrant could contribute roughly $1,846 per yr in state taxes — nicely wanting the $5,000 spent by Medi-Cal, not to mention different providers akin to CalFresh, the state’s meals help program, and different advantages they could declare on behalf of their kids born in the USA.
Trump-era Republicans paint unlawful immigration as a fiscal drain, noting the divide between the excessive prices of providers used and comparatively low taxes raised on even working, single people.
“Newsom doubling down on bankrupting CA by giving free universal healthcare to illegal immigrants,” stated Assemblyman Invoice Essayli, R-Corona, in response to the governor’s dialog. “He’s unfit to be Governor, let alone President!”
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