Bill Text: CA AB1783 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Health care: immigration.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-04 - From printer. May be heard in committee February 3. [AB1783 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1783-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1783
| Introduced by Assembly Member Essayli |
January 03, 2024 |
An act relating to health care.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1783, as introduced, Essayli.
Health care: immigration.
Existing federal law provides for the Medicare Program, which is a public health insurance program for persons 65 years of age and older and specified persons with disabilities who are under 65 years of age. Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to remove all taxpayer
funding for health care for illegal immigrants from the California State Budget.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) On January 1, 2024, California became the first state in the nation to provide universal health insurance to illegal immigrants. In total, this expansion to provide illegal immigrants universal health care is estimated to cost the California taxpayer $4,000,000,000.
(b) California also began 2024 with a serious budget deficit of $68,000,000,000.
(c) In 2024, Covered California premiums increased by 9.6 percent, the Public Employees’ Retirement System increased premiums by 10.77 percent, and other health insurance providers notified policyholders of
even higher rate increases. This at a time when inflation continues to burden all Californians with prices 19 percent higher than prepandemic levels.
(d) The Legislature seeks to reprioritize limited taxpayer resources for California citizens in need rather than illegal immigrants who are citizens of a foreign nation.
