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California Wants to Let Illegal Immigrants Enroll in Obamacare



A bill that would allow illegal immigrants to buy Obamacare plans with their own money is headed to the desk of California Gov. Jerry Brown, after the state Senate passed the measure Thursday.

While President Obama's healthcare law bans illegal immigrants from purchasing Obamacare plans, California is trying to partially change that through what's known as a 1332 waiver. If Brown signs the new measure into law, it would allow the state to petition the federal government to let it allow illegal immigrants to buy plans through Covered California, although they couldn't get federal subsidies.

If California obtains the waiver, it would become the first state to expand the Affordable Care Act to illegal immigrants.

"Covered California should be able to live up to its name and serve all Californians, regardless of immigration status," said Anthony Wright, director of the consumer advocacy group Health Access California.

"People who have different viewpoints on immigration policy can come together in recognition that it is everyone's interest to connect as many Californians with coverage, and prevent the health and financial issues for not just uninsured families but the community as a whole."

The measure passed with bipartisan support in both the state House and the Senate, although the question of allowing illegal immigrants to buy Obamacare plans remains controversial elsewhere. California recently has made some other moves to expand benefits to illegal immigrants, last month extending full benefits to immigrant children enrolled in the state's low-income insurance program, Medi-Cal.

The waiver California is seeking wouldn't make subsidies available to illegal immigrants. But it would allow them to use their own money to buy plans on Covered California, the state's Obamacare marketplace, instead of having to buy directly from insurers.


http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/calif.-advances-bill-to-let-illegal-immigrants-buy-obamacare/article/2592866?custom_click=rss

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California Wants to Let Illegal Immigrants Enroll in Obamacare
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The waiver California is seeking wouldn't make subsidies available to illegal immigrants. But it would allow them to use their own money to buy plans on Covered California, the state's Obamacare marketplace, instead of having to buy directly from insurers.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/calif.-advances-bill-to-let-illegal-immigrants-buy-obamacare/article/2592866?custom_click=rss

LOL!  That's like offering Kim's Market the opportunity to make use of Guido's protection racket deal.

I would not think of buying a 'qualifying plan' unless there was not a direct threat against a fuck-load of my money.  As it is, 'health care' that I don't want, and am in fact afraid to use since it is so dangerous to go to the doctor in this country, costs me more on a monthly basis than all of my other expenses combined.  It is a pure example of racketeering.

Now if I had some expensive disease and/or planned to scam the medical system in some way, the monthly premiems and amazingly high out-of-pocket costs might be worth it.  But that goes back to the underlying problem with medical care in this country in the first place: absolutely no mechanism to control costs.  Since I am paying the bill for other people, it doesn't matter to them nor to the 'health care provider' if they are getting gouged.

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Chief Obamacare Architect Sacked After Fraudulent Billing Investigation



Vermont’s Attorney General has settled the state’s claims of fraud against Jonathan Gruber, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who served as a technical consultant for President Barack Obama and as one of the chief architects of Obamacare.

Under the terms of the settlement, Gruber will no longer work as a taxpayer-funded economic consultant for the state’s health care system and he won’t seek to be paid any money he might be owed, reports the Rutland Herald, a Vermont newspaper.

For its part under the agreement, the Vermont’s attorney general will not pursue legal action under the Vermont Civil False Claims Act.

Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan announced the settlement on Friday after state investigators wrapped up an inquiry into Gruber’s billing practices.



http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/20/chief-obamacare-architect-sacked-after-fraudulent-billing-investigation/



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