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This UBI excludes people who are: "California residents who are 18 years of age or older and receiving benefits under the Medi-Cal program, the County Medical S
by njarboe 7y ago
This UBI excludes people who are:
"California residents who are 18 years of age or older and receiving benefits under the Medi-Cal program, the County Medical Services Program, the CalFresh program, the CalWORKs program, or Unemployment Insurance shall not be eligible to receive a universal basic income under the CalUBI Program."
Medi-Cal is state medical for poor families in California, so a lot of people who this would help would be excluded from getting the benefit. This bill seems like just creating another bureaucracy that moves money around without improving things much.
- heavyset_go 7y agoThis creates the perverse incentive to forgo health coverage, putting a burden on the healthcare system when an uninsured person has an emergency. Then, when providers can't collect on the medical debt, they'll sell it to debt collectors and write off the difference at tax time, which the proposed VAT will have to make up for.