The Republican plan would shift billions in costs onto California The current proposal would result in nearly $6 billion in costs to California in 2020, a figure that would quadruple by 2027, according to analysis by the California Department of Health Care Services. Shift in healthcare costs California will incur if GOP plan is passed version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"? Most of those receive health benefits through Medi-Cal, the state's version of the federal Medicaid program for the poor. Under the Affordable Care Act California, and other states, receives funding based on how much medical care the state's Medicaid patients receive. Estimated amount of Medi-Cal costs that would exceed the GOP proposed limit version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?

Source: Los Angeles Times March 22, 2017 23:37 UTC