California Weighs Doubling Taxes to Pay For Single-Payer Health Care System that Would Cover Illegal Aliens

California lawmakers are considering doubling taxes that would cost each household $12,500 to pay for a single-payer health care system that would cover all illegal aliens. In 2019, California extended health coverage to illegals 26 and under and in 2021, the state began covering illegals over the age of 55.

California lawmakers are weighing DOUBLING taxes to pay for a single-payer health care system that would cover all illegal aliens.

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) last Monday proposed a budget that would give all illegal aliens health coverage.

In 2019, California extended health coverage to illegals 26 and under.

In 2021, California began covering illegals over the age of 55.

Now Newsom wants ALL illegals in California to have health coverage, and Californians may see a tax increase of roughly $12,250 per household.

Fox Business reported:

California lawmakers unveiled a new bill at the beginning of the year that would establish a single-payer health care system – an ambitious plan that would be funded by nearly doubling the state’s already-high taxes.

A new analysis from the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan group that generally advocates for lower taxes, found that the proposed constitutional amendment would increase taxes by roughly $12,250 per household in order to fund the first-of-its-kind health care system. In all, the tax increases are designed to raise an additional $163 billion per year, which is more than California raised in total tax revenue any year before the pandemic.

Under the bill, the top marginal rate on wage income would soar to 18.05% – well above the median top marginal rate of 5.3% and the state’s existing rate of 12.3%. There would be an 18-bracket system, with higher taxes kicking in for individuals earning more than $149,509.The highest rate would apply to those who earn more than $2,484,121.

California would also expand the payroll tax paid by employees who earn more than $49,990 in annual income if they work for a company that has more than 50 workers. Walczak noted the plan could deter small businesses from expanding by inadvertently creating a tax cliff. For instance, if a company that had 49 workers earning $80,000 each hired one additional employee, they would suddenly create a tax bill of more than $90,000.

Finally, the state would also adopt a new 2.3% gross receipts tax (GRT) on qualified businesses minus the first $2 million in annual gross receipts, at a rate more than three times that of the country’s current highest GRT.

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Taxes in the US Must Be Doubled to Pay for ‘Medicare for All,’ aka the Single-Payer Program, Promoted by the Left


Presidential candidates on the left are campaigning for ‘Medicare for all,’ which is single-payer government subsidized healthcare, that has a price tag of $32.6 trillion over 10 years. Seth Denson, a healthcare expert, says that the US takes in $3.6 trillion in taxes per year and would need to double taxes in order to pay for Bernie Sanders’ single-payer healthcare. State-funded healthcare would eliminate insurance and about three million jobs in the insurance industry and related businesses. Polls show that 71% of Americans favor the single-payer modal when they are told that it guarantees insurance for all, but support drops to only 37% when people are told that the single-payer model will increase taxes.




DNC Chief Admits She Does Not Know How to Pay for ‘Medicare for All’ Estimated to Cost $3 Trillion Per Year

The CEO of the Democratic National Committee admitted that she does not know how to pay for the socialized medicine scheme, known as ‘Medicare for All’, which is estimated to cost $32 to $39 trillion!  Seema Nanda, the head of the DNC, was asked how she would pay $3 trillion per year for the single-payer socialized medicine program, and would she double and triple taxes on Americans.  She complained about the Republican tax cuts and then said “So, you know, your answer is I don’t know how we’re going to get there, but these are all big conversations that we need to be engaged in.”

Democratic National Committee (DNC) chief executive officer Seema Nanda admitted on Tuesday she does not know how to pay for the socialized medicine scheme known as Medicare for All, estimates of which are somewhere between $32 and $38 trillion.

Nanda, during Yahoo Finance’s “All Markets Summit: America’s Financial Future” event in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, admitted she does not know how to pay for Medicare for All despite a significant plurality of Democrats backing the single-payer plan.

The interviewer asked:

It would be very expensive, so, if this is going to be a winning issue for Democrats in 2020, how do you answer the question of how are you going to pay for this? Because there have been studies, credible studies that say it would cost three trillion dollars a year, you would have to double everybody’s taxes or maybe triple everybody’s taxes. How do you answer the cost question?

“I don’t think we’re there yet,” Nanda admitted.

The DNC chief then pivoted to attacking Republicans over their tax cut legislation, suggesting they planned to cut spending for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

“So, you know, your answer is I don’t know how we’re going to get there, but these are all big conversations that we need to be engaged in,” Nanda added.

Nanda’s admission that she does not know how to pay for Medicare for All raises questions for House Democrats as they just regained power in the House Representatives, and some progressives will push for the socialized medicine scheme in the new congressional term.

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California: Leftists Are Making Death Threats Against the Speaker of the Assembly for Blocking Government Healthcare Plan


California: Disgruntled leftists are making death threats against Anthony Rendon, Speaker of the Assembly, for blocking the single-payer healthcare plan that would cover anyone who wants medical care and would cost $400 billion per year. Rendon says critics are accusing him of causing the death of people who would be saved if the heath-care plan were in place. At the national level, Democrats are making the same claims to protest efforts to eliminate or overhaul Obamacare. [Under government healthcare, it is true that more people are covered, but it also is true that more people die from death panels, mandatory toxic treatments, and inadequate care. The free market – which includes genuine charity instead of political pretense at charity – always produces better healthcare for more people, including the poor.] –GEG

Some leftists are so angry at California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) for blocking a vote on a single-payer, government-run health care plan that they have been sending him death threats for days.

The bill, the Healthy California Act (SB 562), passed the California State Senate earlier this month. The bill has a price tag of $400 billion many times larger than the current state budget — but no plan to pay for the new system.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) urged California: “Please lead the country and pass the single-payer bill.” But Democrat Governor Jerry Brown was skeptical, wondering openly how the state would ever manage to afford to pay for it.

Rendon supports single-payer in theory, but said the bill was “woefully inadequate,” according to the San Jose Mercury News: “[I]t does not address many serious issues, such as financing, delivery of care, cost controls or the realities of needed action by the Trump administration and voters to make SB 562 a genuine piece of legislation.”

In return, he has begun to receive death threats. Rendon told the Sacramento Bee that he and his family have begun receiving threats through social media, including one that advised him to check “his schedule for baseball practice,” a reference to the shooting attack on several congressional Republicans at a baseball practice earlier this month.

Rendon also told the San Jose Mercury News that he felt threatened specifically because critics were accusing him of causing the death of people who, they claimed, would not have health care if it did not come from the new bill.

“What’s really bothersome for me is to read some of the threads and some of the comments from people who really believe that this bill would have actually provided services. What’s disappointing is that those folks seem to have been sold a bill of goods,” Rendon told the Bee.

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EU Healthcare Death Panel Rules That Baby Must Die Instead of Receiving Experimental Treatment

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the parents of a critically ill baby cannot privately pay for him to go to the US for ‘experimental treatment’, and the child must stay in a British hospital to ‘die with dignity’.  The couple raised $1.7 million for the infant’s treatment, but the court will not allow it, because their death panel decided that the child’s chances of recovery were too low to waste resources attempting to do so. [Isn’t it nice that there are people living off our taxes running a government health-care system who make those hard decisions for us? Under collectivism, everything – including children – belongs to the state. Parents have no say-so because, they, also, belong to the state.] –GEG

The parents of 10-month-old Charlie Gard are reported to be “utterly distraught” after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) denied them a final effort to save their dying son.

After losing a battle in the UK’s Supreme Court, they had appealed to the court in France to fight the decision of British doctors at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, who argued the baby could not be saved in the U.S. and must “die with dignity”.

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The Proposed California Healthcare System Will Impose A Tax Twice as large As The State’s Entire Annual Budget

California state Senators are proposing a bill to require all health care to be administered and paid for by the state. According to preliminary estimates (which almost always are unrealistically low so as not to frighten taxpayers), the system will cost $400-billion a year, which is more than twice as large as California’s entire annual budget. [Legislators may be corrupt but they are not stupid. They know full well that this cannot be sustained by taxes. So why do they advocate such a plan? It is because they are collectivists who believe that the state should own and control everything – and everyone. They know that the best way to bring that about is to cause the present system to collapse. Only when there is sufficient chaos and misery will people accept such totalitarian rule. The first step is to destroy everything that remains of the old order. -GEG

Back in February, a gaggle of California Senators introduced Senate Bill 562, a publicly funded universal healthcare system otherwise conveniently marketed as “The Healthy California Act”…because who in their right mind would oppose Californians being healthy?  Presumably “The California Single-Payer Healthcare System, Courtesy of A Back-Breaking $400 Billion Tax, Act” was passed over because the truth isn’t quite so ‘marketable’ in this particular case.

Unfortunately, while catchy protest slogans like “Healthcare is a Human Right” sound so appealing, the cost of the Liberal healthcare end goal (i.e. a “Single-Payer System”), as some California Senators are finding out today, is somewhat ‘cost prohibitive’.  According to a study by California’s Senate Appropriations Committee, the price tag of SB562 is around $400 billion a year, which just happens to be a little over 2x Cali’s entire annual budget.

And while we understand from our Democratic friends that paying taxes is “patriotic,” we suspect that a fair number of people in California may be opposed to a doubling of their state taxes, which are already the highest in the country…but that’s just a hunch.

The idea behind Senate Bill 562, according to the  Sacramento Bee, was to overhaul California’s insurance marketplace, reduce overall health care costs and expand coverage to everyone in the state regardless of immigration status or ability to pay.  Instead of private insurers, state government would be the “single payer” for everyone’s health care through a new payroll taxing structure, similar to the way Medicare operates…because governments are so efficient at operating massive bureaucracies like Medicare.

“Health care spending is growing faster than the overall economy … yet we do not have better health outcomes and we cover fewer people,” Lara said at Monday’s appropriations hearing. “Given this picture of increasing costs, health care inefficiencies and the uncertainty created by Congress, it is critical that California chart our own path.”

 

Lara and Atkins say they are driven by the belief that health care is a human right and should be guaranteed to everyone, similar to public services like safe roads and clean drinking water. They seek to rein in rising health care costs by lowering administrative expenses, reducing expensive emergency room visits, and eliminating insurance company profits and executive salaries.

The “health care is a human right” argument is a favorite of the liberal elites.  Of course, the problem is that argument can be applied to a endless stream of goods and services.  Should “universal wages” be a human right?  How about a ‘car’ for every working age adult…after all how can people be expected to work if they can’t afford transportation to work?  The application of this twisted logic has no end….

Meanwhile, insurance groups, health plans and Kaiser Permanente are against the bill due to the “prohibitive expense”. Business groups, including the California Chamber of Commerce, have deemed the bill a “job-killer.”

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