Newsom also proposes to use $260 million in state funds to extend Medi-Cal, the government health program for people who can’t afford insurance, to low-income undocumented immigrants ages 18 to 26.
The former mayor of San Francisco said so in this podcast, explaining that there is no reason not to "wait around" to extend Medi-Cal coverage to anyone who asks, regardless of immigration status.
San Francisco is the only universal health care system for all undocumented residents [sic] in America, very proud of that. We proved it could be done without bankrupting the city. I'd like to see that we can extend that to the rest of the state.
Free health care for illegal immigrants! Just like what Hugo Chávez promised in Venezuela!
But it's significant that he's billing himself as a fiscal conservative, who's somehow able to pull a rabbit out of the hat and finance the Medi-Cal full ride on health care for the state's illegal immigrants, who amount to one in four of that population.
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