Healthcare
CA Gov Newsom Unveils Plan to Provide Universal Health Care to all Illegal Immigrants
California’s progressive politics are taking yet one more step forward. On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom revealed his new budget proposal which includes expanding the state’s Medi-Cal health coverage to all low-income illegal immigrants in the state.
National Review reports: “The Golden State already began offering coverage to low-income illegal immigrants 26 and under in 2019 and added coverage for those 55 and older last year. Now, the Democratic governor has proposed covering the remainder beginning no sooner than January 1, 2024.”
As the Associated Press notes, Newsom did not unveil a plan on how to pay for the massive additional costs, nor how he would phase in the coverage. This move makes California the first state to provide universal health care access for all residents regardless of legal status.
One legislative analysis estimated the cost could be upwards of $2.4 billion per year. National Review writes the expansion is included in Newsom’s $286 billion state budget which “makes use of a projected $45.7 billion surplus.”
Newsom’s bill does include $300 million to beef up law enforcement efforts, a necessary tool after liberal policies have increased retail theft tremendously. His bill also includes “$2 billion for mental health services, housing and cleaning homeless encampments to address the state’s homelessness problem.”
Newsom identifies “existential threats” that face the state as justification for his spending proposals. Those include the COVID-19 pandemic, wildfires and drought brought on by global warming, homelessness, income inequality which includes the lack of health insurance for illegal immigrants and public safety.
Healthcare
Nebraska woman who detransitioned sues doctors who facilitated removal of ‘healthy breasts’ when she was a teen battling mental health
Nebraska woman Luka Hein is suing Nebraska Medicine, the Nebraska Medical Center, and University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) Physicians who facilitated in her gender transition when she was a teenager; Hein has since detransitioned.
Hein, who is being represented by the Center for American Liberty, filed the suit last week, for removal of her healthy breasts when she was a depressed teenager who struggled with mental health.
“Proceeding straight to breast amputation in a depressed, anxiety-ridden, gender-confused adolescent, who was incapable of understanding the lasting consequences of her decision, constitutes negligence for which Defendants are jointly and severally liable,” the lawsuit states.
Fox News reports:
Throughout adolescence, Hein struggled with her mental health and traumatic experiences, including being allegedly groomed and threatened by an adult man. She had serious mental-health struggles at age 13. By 15 she was diagnosed with “gender identity disorder” and put on a fast track to have her breasts removed, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit claims that despite Hein’s history, doctors rushed her into gender transition without considering her psychological comorbidities. It says the defendants used deceptive euphemisms and unscientific terminology to sell gender-transition procedures to Hein.
For instance, their use of the phrase “masculinizing hormone therapy” was misleading as the process does not heal the patient but does “inflict harm that causes malfunctioning and malformation of the teenage body and brain,” according to the lawsuit. Testosterone injections, which Hein received as part of her attempted sex change, can cause many negative side effects including high blood pressure and permanent bodily changes such as the development of an Adam’s apple, deepening of the voice, abnormal hair growth, and male pattern balding of the scalp.
The lawsuit says defendants were also negligent in other ways, such as in their shifting from a standard medical diagnosis to the “affirming care” model, which embraces a person’s gender delusion as fact and discourages questioning.
Allegedly one doctor, Nahia J. Amoura, was prepared to go even further. “About a year after starting Luka on testosterone, Dr. Amoura recommended to Luka that she surgically remove her uterus in a partial hysterectomy as the next step in her ‘transition,’” the lawsuit states. The hysterectomy would have permanently sterilized Hein and created hormonal imbalances that would have required long-term medical follow-ups.
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Victor Lavimodiere
January 11, 2022 at 2:32 pm
What is it gonna take for people to realize how out of control his polices are? How can ANY state afford a 286 BILLION DOLLAR budget?
Kenneth Faint
January 11, 2022 at 3:47 pm
Good. I am glad that fool is going to give California’s taxpayers money. You get what you vote for.
FatBurger
January 11, 2022 at 5:27 pm
Is anyone going to sue?
Nate
January 11, 2022 at 5:45 pm
How will it be paid for? With tax revenue of course! Taxes will rise again in California, Newsome should allow equal opportunity camping for the homeless on his own property!
TellTheTruth-2
January 11, 2022 at 6:09 pm
How wonderful. People living on the streets and without healthcare and he wants to to take care of crooks who break the law. He will be known a Governor Gruesom before I’m done.
Kevin Tucker Jr.
January 11, 2022 at 6:28 pm
How about taking care of the homeless veteran population along with your American born citizens first.2nd Put the money you crooks stole back into policing and fire the dum ass prosecutors who don’t care.They should have canned your asz when they had the chance you hypocrite,but we all know you stole the vote like your pal Biden.Your a bunch of communists
Profx
January 12, 2022 at 9:58 am
Gavin ruined his first marriage by cheating and is ruining my State, California, now. He gives us the highest taxes in the nation while misspending our tax money. Currently Gavin gives over Five Billion dollars per Year to illegals. Universal Health care for illegals is just more of the same.
Illegal means they broke the law from day one and were never vetted. In many cases they are the most uneducated from their original countries so of course they would be low income here too.
Can ordinary citizens “identify” as illegals so we can get on Gavin’s gravy train? The only problem is that Marxism and Communism never work for the general population. Only the leaders prosper in the end.
Stephane
January 14, 2022 at 4:19 am
The ILLEGALS hate abortion as much as we do!
Children means care for old age, better family life when the children are there while working and adding to the family.
ALL against the desires of the DEMON RATS like Gates who wants to DEPOPULATE the earth by 2 billion people!
The socialists want a maximum of 1.3 child per family to keep a world going as they wish. ( even china asks people to make more kids after 40 years of ONE child per family!)
Soon the DEMON RATS will realize their STUPID ideas are backfiring on them!