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first-in-the-nation plan to let undocumented immigrants
buy Obamacare health insurance.
Supporters say the California proposal, which would
Supporters say the California proposal, which would
need federal approval and couldn’t start until 2017,
is the next logical step in expanding health insurance
to a population that was intentionally excluded from
the president’s health-care law. But uniting the two
highly combustible issues of Obamacare and
immigration could reignite a fierce health-care reform controversy.
There’s no guarantee the California plan still winding through the state’s legislature will succeed,
There’s no guarantee the California plan still winding through the state’s legislature will succeed,
even with Democrats in control of the statehouse, the governor’s mansion and the White House.
California Gov. Jerry Brown isn’t commenting on the legislation, which has been approved by the
state Senate but not by the Assembly. But just last month, Brown agreed to spend millions in state
dollars to provide health care to undocumented children, mirroring similar efforts in a handful of other
liberal states.
For the Obama administration, the California effort could mark the return of a sore point in the
For the Obama administration, the California effort could mark the return of a sore point in the
early days of the Obamacare debate. Republicans never trusted Democrats’ repeated assurances
while the law was being drafted that the Affordable Care Act wouldn’t cover undocumented immigrants.
That built up to Rep. Joe Wilson’s infamous “You lie!” moment, when the South Carolina Republican
interrupted President Barack Obama’s 2009 health care address to Congress. Source: Politico
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