There’s a special kind of politician who watches everything burn and thinks, “You know what this fire needs? More gasoline.”
Meet Gavin Newsom. Hair: immaculate. Policies: catastrophic. Self-awareness: none detected.
The Price of “Compassion”
Here’s a fun number for California taxpayers: 382 percent.
That’s how much ambulance costs have skyrocketed since Newsom decided to roll out the red carpet — and the red lights and sirens — for illegal immigrants on the state’s dime.
In 2022, a taxpayer-funded ambulance ride in California cost $339. Reasonable enough for an emergency vehicle staffed with trained paramedics hauling you to a hospital.
By 2024? $1,168.
And they’re not done. California has already submitted requests to jack that up to $1,597 next year and $1,637 by 2026.
From $339 to $1,637 in four years. That’s not inflation. That’s highway robbery — except the highway is a gurney and the robber has a Sacramento address.
Follow the Money
So what happened between 2022 and now?
California expanded Medi-Cal — the state’s Medicaid program — to cover illegal immigrants. And since most of them access healthcare through emergency services, guess which budget line exploded?
Ambulances became the free Uber of the uninsured.
Now look, nobody’s saying we should let someone die on the sidewalk because they crossed the border illegally. Stabilize them. Treat the emergency. That’s basic humanity.
But here’s a crazy thought: after you patch them up, maybe send them home? Novel concept, I know.
Instead, California created a system where emergency rooms became walk-in clinics and ambulances became taxis — all funded by taxpayers who are also dealing with the highest gas prices in America, the worst homelessness crisis in the country, and a tax burden that makes New York look reasonable.
The Newsom Touch
This is the Gavin Newsom specialty. The man has the reverse Midas touch — everything he governs turns to bankruptcy.
California now has:
- The highest gas prices in the nation
- The largest homeless population in the country
- Some of the highest taxes anywhere
- And for the first time in state history, lost Congressional seats after the 2020 census because productive citizens are fleeing like the state’s on fire
Which, coincidentally, it often is. And he can’t manage that either.
The pattern is unmistakable. Newsom implements a progressive fantasy. Reality pushes back. Costs explode. Citizens suffer. And Newsom responds by… doing more of the same thing, harder.
It’s not governance. It’s ideological stubbornness with a good skincare routine.
The Quiet Admission
Here’s the part that tells you everything: California has already announced it’s cutting off Medi-Cal enrollment for illegal immigrants starting in 2026.
Read that again. They’re ending the program.
Why would they end it if it was working? If this was all just compassionate policy with no downside?
Because the math broke. The system is hemorrhaging money. Ambulance costs are Exhibit A.
But the damage is done. The precedent was set, the money was spent, and working Californians got handed the bill — a bill that went up 382 percent while Newsom smiled for cameras and pretended everything was fine.
The Audacity
Fox News reached out to Newsom’s office for comment.
Shockingly — shockingly — they didn’t hear back.
Funny how that works. The governor who never misses a photo op suddenly can’t find a microphone when the questions get uncomfortable.
This is the man Democrats keep floating for president. The man who turned the nation’s richest state into a case study in managed decline. The man who thinks the answer to every failed policy is more of the policy.
Gavin Newsom must never be president.
And if Californians have any survival instinct left, he shouldn’t be governor much longer either.