I actually don't know where I should be on this proposal and others like them. I absolutely do not want illegals getting free stuff, but as Millcreek said, they get it anyway by popping into the emergency room and they then incur a much larger expense that ends up impacting me, over what health coverage likely would.
We've had these conversations before and have talked about the difficulty of implementing it, but we wouldn't be talking about this particular either/or if we could limit access to the emergency room for non-emergencies. There are way too many people, illegal and otherwise, that go to the emergency room for stuff that only needs an aspirin, or a band-aid, or a good night's sleep.
Anyway, I guess if this is a direction CA wants to go, it's up to them. I'd have a much bigger problem with it if it were national, especially since the larger illegal populations that would use the free health care are generally in only a few states, and taxpayers of every state would have to pitch in for them.