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For the archives. This might be interesting ten years from now. Or not.
All of this needs to be fact-checked. I often make simply arithmetic errors.
Utility bills:
This site says 20% of Californians are at least a month behind in paying their utility bills.
Births:
From GoogleAI:
In California, the percentage of babies born with costs paid by Medicaid (Medi-Cal) is around 40% to 41%, with recent figures from sources like the California Health Care Foundation and Becker's Hospital Review placing it at approximately 39% or 40.5%.
Doula care, Medi-Cal payments for doula care:This makes Medicaid a major source of financing for births in the state, alongside private insurance. [Well, duh.] There are approximately 400,000 live births in California. See California budget here.
- a January 2024 reimbursement update for doula services under Medi-Cal provides a glimpse of delivery-related costs:
- vaginal delivery: Maximum reimbursement for a full package of prenatal, delivery, and postpartum doula services is $3,152.65.
- Cesarean birth: Maximum reimbursement for a doula services package is $3,263.31.
- broader cost comparisons
- for a broader perspective, other studies have compared Medi-Cal reimbursement to commercial insurance payments for childbirth. A 2022 analysis found the disparity in California to be one of the highest in the nation:
- the payment gap between commercial insurers and Medi-Cal for childbirth in California was over $15,000.
- the average commercial payment for childbirth was considerably higher than the average fee-for-service Medi-Cal payment in all 38 states studied.
- it's easy to do the math
- cost to the state / Medi-Cal
- cost to the hospital
Foreign born:
- in 2023, approximately one in four Americans not born in the United States lived in California.
- the state has the largest immigrant population in the nation; it accounts for about a fourth of the national total.
- here is a breakdown of recent data on the foreign-born population:
- share of national total: In 2023, California was home to 11.3 million foreign-born residents, or about 28.4% of the U.S. total.
- California's population: Foreign-born residents also represent a significant portion of California's population. In 2023, they made up 27% of the state's residents, the highest share of any state.
- other states: The next largest immigrant populations were in Texas (over 6 million) and Florida (5.4 million)
Deportation:
- it would require deporting 8,000 undocumented visitors per day for four years to get the number of undocumented visitors in California back to the number it was the day before Joe Biden was sworn in as president -- needs to be fact-checked.
