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Before Obamacare, if California's taxpayers became the single payer behind medical care in California, then millions of poor chronically ill people would have moved to California from the other 49 states for the free medical care

--unless I am wrong in my belief that there is nothing California voters can do to prevent US citizens from moving to California.

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Why couldn't they put in restrictions such as a having worked in California for x years or lived there for y years.

The Privileges and Immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, more or less.

This works just fine in other contexts. Eg. when you move to Alaska, you only start getting your Permanent Fund dividend only when you’re Alaskan resident for a full calendar year. You are only eligible for resident hunting permit after 12 months of residency. There are many more examples.

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