California is set to offer free taxpayer subsidized health insurance to illegal immigrants starting on Monday, after Governor Gavin Newsom expanded coverage from simply the children of illegals to adults between 19-25 and those over 50.

The state was already facing large budget deficits before this move. Imagine how bad it’s going to be in the coming years because of this move. Not to mention that many illegals coming over Biden’s open southern border will flood California just to get these new benefits.

Here’s more via Townhall:

Beginning on January 1, 2024, illegal migrants living in California will become eligible for taxpayer-funded health insurance— just another incentive for illegal migrants to not want to leave the U.S.

California estimated 4.4 million illegal aliens will now qualify for Medi-Cal, which is California’s state-funded version of the federal government’s Medicaid program. Since 2015, only migrant children have been eligible for Medi-Cal.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA.) decision to expand health insurance coverage to undocumented adults between the ages of 19-25 and those over 50 has California Republicans warning that it will “certainly exacerbate current provider access problems” as Medi-Cal “is already strained by serving 14.6 million Californians — more than a third of the state’s population.”

The state is already facing a $68 billion deficit in the next fiscal year, warning that Newsom’s plan will cause the start to face unprecedented revenue and health care shortages.

“The expansion was a bad idea when the state’s coffers were flush. Now that California is struggling to make ends meet, using taxpayer money to cover non-citizens is simply irresponsible,” Sally Pipes, a healthcare policy expert and the president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, a California-based think tank, told The New Post.

She warned that people who have Medi-Cal are already facing long wait times for care and are struggling to find doctors to treat them because of the low reimbursement rates that the doctors receive from the government.

California officials predict that more than 1.2 million illegal aliens will eventually be using subsidized health insurance.