Healthcare for ILLEGALS Pushes California's Budget to $5.8 BILLION Over Inflation

Over the last 15 years, California racked up three small surpluses, two break-evens and 10 huge deficits.

“There’s not a lot of money left in the budget,” said Gov. Jerry Brown regarding the $164.7 billion budget unveiled Friday. “It’s very tight.”

The real reason money is tight is Brown and the Democratic legislature increased spending by five percent in a period when inflation is averaging 1.3 percent. California’s proposed spending will jump $5.8 billion more than inflation.

Jerry Brown tried to sound financially responsible when he crowed that his budget projects a $1.2 billion surplus, but he avoided addressing out-of-control healthcare costs. Buried in Brown’s spending plan is the fact that the state’s Medi-Cal enrollment expansion is $2.5 million over projection, the least expensive Covered California health plan premium just jumped by 11.7 percent and the state’s un-funded retiree medical liability is $71.8 billion.

Unmentioned in the Governor’s spending proposals are the healthcare costs for another million illegal adult immigrants residing in California that are now eligible for Medi-Cal enrollment since President Obama’s expanded his executive order to include adults, as long as they qualify by income.

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