{"id":51369,"date":"2016-10-06T18:35:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T22:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51369"},"modified":"2016-10-06T18:35:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T22:35:28","slug":"california-becomes-first-state-to-request-waiver-to-offer-obamacare-to-illegal-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51369","title":{"rendered":"California Becomes First State To Request &#8220;Waiver&#8221; To Offer Obamacare To Illegal Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Remember that time when South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson shouted<strong> &#8220;You Lie!&#8221;<\/strong> just after <strong>President Obama assured American&#8217;s before a joint session of Congress that illegal immigrants would not be eligible for Obamacare?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If not, we highly recommend you take a look:<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid152121\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8-vt_OrSeWk\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Apparently California Governor Jerry Brown was not convinced by Obama&#8217;s denials as he signed a bill back in June that allowed the state to apply for a federal waiver to open Covered California to illegal immigrants.\u00a0 And, lest you thought it was a bluff, Covered California\u2019s Executive Director Peter Lee has just sent a <a href=\"http:\/\/hbex.coveredca.com\/stakeholders\/Covered%20California%201332%20Waiver\/Covered%20California%201332%20Application_Finalcombined_093016.pdf\">letter<\/a>(attached in its entirety below) to the Health and Human Services Secretary, Sylvia Burwell, requesting a <strong>waiver to &#8220;expand access to undocumented individuals.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user230519\/imageroot\/2016\/10\/06\/2016.10.06%20-%20Obamacare_0.jpg\" alt=\"Obamacare for Illegals\" width=\"600\" height=\"205\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the waiver would only allow for &#8220;undocumented individuals&#8221; to purchase &#8220;unsubsidized health insurance plans&#8221; we suspect that this is just an initial request in what will turn into a long-term negotiation that will ultimately result in taxpayers providing free healthcare to illegal aliens in California.<\/p>\n<p>As Bill would say, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-10-04\/bill-clinton-bashes-obamacare-craziest-thing-world\">it&#8217;s the craziest thing in the world!<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hbex.coveredca.com\/stakeholders\/Covered%20California%201332%20Waiver\/Covered%20California%201332%20Application_Finalcombined_093016.pdf\">Full letter here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"injected-ad-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/326648592\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-CCElBtWhqgOaDksPB5mR&amp;show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"node-links\">___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-10-06\/california-wants-obamacare-illegal-immigrants\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-10-06\/california-wants-obamacare-illegal-immigrants<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}