People might say: "$2,000 in savings is reasonable! Newsom wants to make sure Medi-Cal is reserved for those who truly can't afford private healthcare." We say: Nothing is reasonable about this budget plan. Asset minimums are punitive and outdated. $2,000 in savings won't cover a month's rent. ** - ThreadSky

ktownforall.org • 6 days ago

People might say:
"$2,000 in savings is reasonable! Newsom wants to make sure Medi-Cal is reserved for those who truly can't afford private healthcare."

We say:
Nothing is reasonable about this budget plan. Asset minimums are punitive and outdated.

$2,000 in savings won't cover a month's rent. **

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li0ness.bsky.social•6 days ago

I watched a savings cap effectively kill my grandmother 15 years ago in a LCOL area-- and it was $1000 back then. Imagine how many more of our most vulnerable population is going to be destitute on a $2000 cap with 15 years of inflation and California cost of living.

ktownforall.org•6 days ago

So very sorry to hear about your grandmother 💔 It’s heartbreaking that savings cap policies affect the most vulnerable among us

stargonewrong.gay•5 days ago

you said "$2000" in "assets" not "savings"

"$2000 in saving or you get kicked off" is federal and has always existed as a law. "$2000 in assets" would strip anyone who owned a car or house and is a whole different ballgame. this difference is very important to the disabled and elderly i support

antifa4ever.bsky.social•5 days ago

80% or more of us cannot afford private HC because the costs include Wall Street profit based HC.

statsig.bsky.social•5 days ago

I’m not in California, but I don’t think people realize what that means:
When they say $2000 in savings, they mean that you’re not allowed to have more than $2000 in any bank account at any time. It’s not just in a savings account. Governments consider savings to be *anything*.

transnormative.bsky.social•5 days ago

A lot of people in California need more than $2000 to pay rent.

cvfpartnerships.bsky.social•5 days ago

What’s reasonable is what most other developed countries do: government pays for health care for all out of general tax revenue. No co-pays, deductibles or any of the other crap that enriches US insurance companies and their paid politicians.

ktownforall.org•6 days ago

If Newsom's new budget plan passes, people 65 and over, or with disabilities, who save up even one month's worth of expenses, will forfeit their Medi-Cal.

ktownforall.org•6 days ago

Saving up to move to a new place?

To go back to school?

To get married?

To buy a new car?

To get orthodontics?

A new companion animal?

A powered wheelchair?

Newsom thinks you don't deserve healthcare.

ktownforall.org•6 days ago

People might say:
"I don't want my taxes funding healthcare for undocumented Californians who don't contribute."

We say:
Undocumented Californians contribute $8.5 billion*** in state taxes every year. Yet they are unjustly excluded from access to many public services-that their taxes made possible.

ktownforall.org•6 days ago

Stripping access to healthcare from our people who need it the most - older, disabled, and undocumented Californians - will only cost us more:

More hardship.
More mortality.
More emergency service calls.
More bureaucratic expense.
More strain on families and workers.

ktownforall.org•6 days ago

And it will only give us less.

Less flexibility.
Less freedom.
Less money.
Less time.
Less life.
Less of everything that makes California great.

ktownforall.org•6 days ago

Governor Newsom,

This isn't who we are.

However bad California's budget deficit may be, stripping healthcare from our disabled citizens, elders, and immigrant community is NOT the answer.

pennicat.bsky.social•5 days ago

It’s ridiculous. On the one hand, people complain that those on benefits are frittering away their money, and on the other, they force us to spend it all or else we end up being thrown off the benefits we need because we “have too much”.

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