Newsom's California for some!
June 15 2019 By Abiodun Karim Giwa
Governor Gavin Newsom (Courtesy:NPR)
The picture shows Governor Newsom standing behind a podium and behind him at the background reads a statement: 2019-2020 Governor's Budget - A California for All. This is the description of a photograph used by the NPR in a news report on California's budget proposal for 2019-2020. The report, like all others like it by other news media, says that California would expand health care to some undocumented immigrants.
These lucky undocumented immigrants are reported to be between the age of 19 and 26, the report reveals, and that some 30,000 older adults have been left without enjoyment of the sympathy that some California law makers and Governor Gavin Newsom have chosen to give a health insurance break.
Other than that the young undocumented immigrants are low paid workers, there no other qualification that gives them the qualification for the health insurance, which they are not eligible to have.under normal circumstances. And because the development has happened under an abnormal circumstance, California becomes the first in the the United states to give health insurance to some undocumented immigrants.
The first question that arises over California's decision to extend health insurance to some undocumented immigrants is why to some and not to all undocumented immigrants since California is for all, and the budget in Governor Newsom's words invests in a California for all. What crime have the senior adult undocumented immigrants committed for them to be punished the way that California has done? Again, under normal circumstance, the senior adults are supposed to be considered first because of their age and being the most susceptible to illnesses than young people.
It is generally known that young people don't buy health insurance unlike old people, because young people consider themselves as young and energetic, and don't consider themselves susceptible to illnesses. It was not that the senior adults among the undocumented immigrants did not have advocates among the Democratic Party law makers, because according to the NPR's report, efforts by some Democrats to include undocumented seniors in the budget plan were rejected by Gov. Newsom and other legislators without any reason stated for the governor and the law makers' rejection of the senior's inclusion.
Cynthia Buzia, executive director of the California Immigrant Policy Center Center said that exclusion of undocumented elders from the same health care their U.S. citizen neighbors are eligible will suffer and die from treatable conditions. But curious observers say the obvious fact that Buzia has glossed over in the exclusion of these seniors by Governor Newsom and law makers in their health insurance give away is the trampling on public policy process that normally considers the vulnerable in policy formulations before any other consideration.
The senior undocumented immigrants would be asking themselves about what crime they may have committed to attract exclusion in a major program in which they ought to be considered first, and the young fellows would be asking why have they been considered for health insurance handout ahead of the seniors who are supposed to be considered before them. And no one may ever know why Newsom and law makers in his caucus have taken a decision that does not have the barring of a sound public policy process.
More worrisome coming from a state, where lack of money to tackle news homelessness in a place like San Francisco led to Proposition C, an election that favored taxing tech giants to fund relief for the homeless. Nothing is wrong in helping the needy, but the way these politicians go about it using tax payers money, whether collected as a fine from those who have refused to enlist for the states' health care or not does not matter, to help some and leaving some in the cold without explanations should be worrisome to all of us.
Of course, all news reports on this matter says California has reached a deal to give health insurance to 'some' and not all undocumented immigrants. The reports are silent on how and why?
These lucky undocumented immigrants are reported to be between the age of 19 and 26, the report reveals, and that some 30,000 older adults have been left without enjoyment of the sympathy that some California law makers and Governor Gavin Newsom have chosen to give a health insurance break.
Other than that the young undocumented immigrants are low paid workers, there no other qualification that gives them the qualification for the health insurance, which they are not eligible to have.under normal circumstances. And because the development has happened under an abnormal circumstance, California becomes the first in the the United states to give health insurance to some undocumented immigrants.
The first question that arises over California's decision to extend health insurance to some undocumented immigrants is why to some and not to all undocumented immigrants since California is for all, and the budget in Governor Newsom's words invests in a California for all. What crime have the senior adult undocumented immigrants committed for them to be punished the way that California has done? Again, under normal circumstance, the senior adults are supposed to be considered first because of their age and being the most susceptible to illnesses than young people.
It is generally known that young people don't buy health insurance unlike old people, because young people consider themselves as young and energetic, and don't consider themselves susceptible to illnesses. It was not that the senior adults among the undocumented immigrants did not have advocates among the Democratic Party law makers, because according to the NPR's report, efforts by some Democrats to include undocumented seniors in the budget plan were rejected by Gov. Newsom and other legislators without any reason stated for the governor and the law makers' rejection of the senior's inclusion.
Cynthia Buzia, executive director of the California Immigrant Policy Center Center said that exclusion of undocumented elders from the same health care their U.S. citizen neighbors are eligible will suffer and die from treatable conditions. But curious observers say the obvious fact that Buzia has glossed over in the exclusion of these seniors by Governor Newsom and law makers in their health insurance give away is the trampling on public policy process that normally considers the vulnerable in policy formulations before any other consideration.
The senior undocumented immigrants would be asking themselves about what crime they may have committed to attract exclusion in a major program in which they ought to be considered first, and the young fellows would be asking why have they been considered for health insurance handout ahead of the seniors who are supposed to be considered before them. And no one may ever know why Newsom and law makers in his caucus have taken a decision that does not have the barring of a sound public policy process.
More worrisome coming from a state, where lack of money to tackle news homelessness in a place like San Francisco led to Proposition C, an election that favored taxing tech giants to fund relief for the homeless. Nothing is wrong in helping the needy, but the way these politicians go about it using tax payers money, whether collected as a fine from those who have refused to enlist for the states' health care or not does not matter, to help some and leaving some in the cold without explanations should be worrisome to all of us.
Of course, all news reports on this matter says California has reached a deal to give health insurance to 'some' and not all undocumented immigrants. The reports are silent on how and why?
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