The state initially projected that Newsom’s Medicaid expansion would cost about $5.8 billion during 2024 and 2025; it has since revised that figure up to $8.4 billion.
Free healthcare doesn’t come cheap.
That’s one lesson Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., is learning the hard way.
Since Newsom officially extended the state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, to all undocumented immigrants last year, the entitlement’s costs have ballooned.
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Democrats in Calif. Put Healthcare of Illegal Residents First
Sally C. Pipes
The state initially projected that Newsom’s Medicaid expansion would cost about $5.8 billion during 2024 and 2025; it has since revised that figure up to $8.4 billion.
Free healthcare doesn’t come cheap.
That’s one lesson Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., is learning the hard way.
Since Newsom officially extended the state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, to all undocumented immigrants last year, the entitlement’s costs have ballooned.
Read the op-ed here.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.