{"id":53259,"date":"2024-01-04T10:58:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53259"},"modified":"2024-01-04T10:58:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:58:27","slug":"in-what-universe-does-this-make-sense-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53259","title":{"rendered":"In What Universe Does This Make Sense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2024\/01\/02\/california-health-care-available-illegal-immigrants-covers-sex-change-surgeries-hormones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Caller<\/a> reported that the Medi-Cal program in California will now cover healthcare for illegal aliens. It is not a surprise that California has one of the highest tax rates in the country and one of the highest cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The state of California\u2019s program providing taxpayer-funded health care to illegal immigrants covers sex change surgeries and hormones, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of the program.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The program, which is known as Medi-Cal, covers hormone therapy and surgical procedures \u201cthat bring primary and secondary gender characteristics into conformity with the individual\u2019s identified gender, including ancillary services, such as hair removal, incident to those services,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mcweb.apps.prd.cammis.medi-cal.ca.gov\/assets\/F81D2354-BA35-4415-9B82-8B2DF9A505FA\/transgender.pdf?access_token=6UyVkRRfByXTZEWIh8j8QaYylPyP5ULO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a>\u00a0to a state memo from May 2022. Roughly 700,000\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/05\/19\/california-illegal-immigrants-campus-work\/\">illegal immigrants<\/a>\u00a0in the state between the age of 26 and 49 qualify for full coverage as of Jan. 1, California State Sen. Mar\u00eda Elena Durazo\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/12\/30\/california-offers-illegal-immigrants-taxpayer-funded-health-care-medi-cal-gavin-newsom\/\">said<\/a>\u00a0in May of the state\u2019s latest move to expand the program.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have no problem providing necessary medical care to anyone who needs it. However, the cost of sex change surgery and the drugs necessary to keep up the pretense should not be paid by the taxpayers&#8211;particularly when the people requesting the surgery are not here legally.<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In recent years, there\u2019s been a massive surge in illegal immigration at the southern border, where federal authorities recorded more than 2 million encounters of migrants crossing the southern border illegally in fiscal year 2023 and more than 2.2 million in fiscal year 2022,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\">according<\/a>\u00a0to federal data.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cIn California, we believe everyone deserves access to quality, affordable health care coverage \u2013 regardless of income or immigration status,\u201d Newsom\u2019s office\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/california-1st-state-offer-health-insurance-undocumented-immigrants\/story?id=105986377\">told<\/a>\u00a0ABC News of the latest expansion. \u201cThrough this expansion, we\u2019re making sure families and communities across California are healthier, stronger, and able to get the care they need when they need it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At some point, Americans need to realize that the cost of illegal aliens and the disrespect many of these illegal aliens are showing to our laws will destroy the country as we know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, The Daily Caller reported that the Medi-Cal program in California will now cover healthcare for illegal aliens. 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