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While our nation faces the dauting question of, "how" do we reform health care, we as Californians need to ask, "who" is going to shoulder the financial burden?
Since the recession started, over 500,000 Californians have lost their health care coverage, and by 2010, that number is expectedto reach 600,000. Our health care premiums are growing three times faster than our wages. Health care reform is no longer an option, it's a necessity.
In this editorial, we focus on the Baucus bill currently moving forward in the U.S. Senate. And why NBC Bay Area believes this plan to exclude undocumented immigrants, and immigrants here less than five years, will only lay a bigger burden at the taxpayers feet, especially here in California.
Immigration and Health Care Reform
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Senator Baucus' Health Care Bill
Roll Call: "Baucus Should Be More Inclusive With Health Care Plan"
by: Rep. Mike Honda
The Hill: "Senate Finance passes healthcare bill; Snowe the lone GOP supporter"
by Jeffrey Young
Tampa Tribune: "Real health Care Reform Requires Public Option"
August 26, 2009
Migration Policy Institute: “Recent studies have found that immigrants spend 14 to 20 percent less on health care than natives even when controlling for their insurance coverage, and that noncitizens spend less than half as much as citizens on health care overall.” MPI report page. 22 (attached).
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