The new year opens with another Obama Care story.  It comes from California, as reported by The LA Times: California officials never anticipated how many people would sign up for state-run health insurance under Obamacare. The state's health plan for the poor, known as Medi-Cal, now covers 12.7 million people, 1 of every 3 Californians. If Medi-Cal were a state of its own, it would be the nation's seventh-biggest by population; its $91-billion budget would be the country's fourth-largest, trailing only those of California, New York and Texas. So 1 of 3 Californians is under a program originally designed to help the poor?   Is the state that poor?   Medi-Cal was always a last resort insurance policy, or the place where you went to find health coverage if you couldn't afford a private option or had a preexisting condition or disability.   Again is the Golden State that poor, or is this what happens when you tell people to...(Read Full Post)