Subject: Re: Get Out, We're Closed
And if the democrats get Congress and the Presidency, we'll see even MORE incentives. Not fewer.

I doubt that. The Progressive wing is loud, but not dominant.

Here's some more info on the matter (I don't follow CA politics, so didn't know much detail):

https://latino.ucla.edu/resear...

Paid for with state funds.

Also: These government efforts are unequivocally important steps in the direction of universal health insurance coverage in California; however, it should be emphasized that this coverage option is only for eligible undocumented immigrants, meaning those with incomes that are 138 percent of FPL and below.21 Approximately 25 percent of undocumented immigrants in California were above this threshold.22

I can see both sides. Yes, it's an incentive. However, ERs can't ask immigration status or ability to pay. They just have to treat people. The ER is the most expensive way to get treatment, and if they can't pay then the taxpayers pay. It's cheaper to allow them to get treatment outside of an ER. Also, if someone has something communicable, it is more likely to be contained if they can get care before it becomes emergent.

I couldn't find the arguments and debates that CA had before doing this, so I'm just guessing that the above was part of the discussion.

Proper action by Congress would likely make this unnecessary by reducing the overall flow. THOSE are the discussions we need to be having. "Let them all in" and "keep them all out" is not realistic, and both are non-starters. But, I suspect, as long as it's a vote-getter, there won't be serious discussions about ameliorating the problem. And with the situation in other parts of the world, coupled with our broken system, they will keep coming here because it is better -even ignoring CA- than what they are leaving. Same reason a lot of Vietnam-era young men snuck into Canada...it was better there than here (at the time). My brother was going to go, but his draft number was so high he didn't have to worry about it. And I was too young (and then later enlisted in the Navy anyway).