Posted on 03/02/2007 8:39:30 PM PST by FairOpinion
If legislative Democrats had their way, California might well be on its way to a government-run health care system. Both houses of the Legislature passed a bill last year to create a so-called "single-payer" system, only to have Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger veto it.
Surrounded by union supporters and fellow liberal lawmakers, the leader of the single-payer movement, Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, said Tuesday that she will try again.
Kuehl's central goal in Senate Bill 840 is to eliminate health insurance companies -- which she says ring up excessive profits and offer substandard coverage -- from the system. Instead, she would create a new state mega-agency to administer health care to all residents -- deciding what types of treatments and technology to employ and how much to pay doctors and hospitals.
(Excerpt) Read more at contracostatimes.com ...
Those who still bash Arnold should consider, that Angelides would already have signed this dreadful bill, he said he would.
WWMD???
What would McClintock Do?
aRnie is pushing his own brand of socialism and has lackies/shills running cover for him here.
"What would McClintock Do?"
Who cares, since he never even managed to win the Lt Gov position and clearly had and has even less chance than that to become governor.
But if it hadn't been for Arnold, we would now have either Bustamante or Angelides.
NO matter , we still have you, nothing more than a shill for the TWirP brigade. we are so blessed,
No?
Arnold's healthcare proposal, while it has its flaws, is NOT a single payer government run socialized medicine healthcare that the Dems are pushing, and which Arnold vetoed before and will veto again.
Oh, btw,, you think folks would have bought into all the bonds without aRnie pushing them? Thanks, FO, for being out there, waaaaay out there. ;-)
You sure earn your money , I'll say that much for ya.. all of ya.
Yes, she's the leader, in fact is probably the only one right now, promoting a single-payer (i.e., govnernment) health system.
The question isn't what would the Weasel have done but rather what would a conservative, Republican governor have done if the ship of CAGOP fools hadn't closed the Republican primary and blindly supported an Austrian liberal .
The CAGOP leadership has screwed California Republicans and no amount of spin can hide the dirty deed. The CAGOP enabled a European liberal and now must now live with all his baggage.
Has flaws??? ROFL. You're a piece of work, FO.
$11 Billion in new taxes, a program that makes Hillary jealous, and you say it has it's flaws. Unbelievable.
This is so easy. Everybody that wants government run health care should be able to have it! But, it would only be paid for by those join and they would have to stay in the program for a year. Everybody else would be responsible for their own protection. See, it`s not to hard to figure out.
Why not just nationalize the insurance companies and keep the profits? Ooops, I forgot, CA is a state, not a nation.
If the responses were believable I'd advise all to be afraid. Be very afraid.
Fortunately, for all conservatives on FR, the account is what the account is. Think of the effort we'd have to expend to import a Democrat idiot as a foil.
I, for one, am fond of our present arrangement. Long live our token minority.
ROFL! Thank you for putting it in perspective for me. :-)
Actually the CA Legislature PASSED this exact bill last year. It didn't become law, because Arnold vetoed it.
As one who has frequently said that "at least Arnold is better than Davis, Bustamante, or Angelides," I'm still terribly disappointed with Schwarzenegger.
On the other hand, it doesn't matter what McClintock would do, because he can't get elected to statewide office in the People's Republic of California.
at least Arnold is better than Davis, Bustamante, or Angelides,"
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And you were right -- this article is just another evidence that proves it.
Maybe I'm right, but I'm still not happy about it.
"We may have lung cancer but we could have had a heart attack or a stroke."
Just think of it this way: YOU saved CA from BustaMechante and Karl Marx Angelides. And it is NOT a joke.
Arnold vetoed at least a third of the worst bills the Dem Legislature passed, all of which a Dem gov would have signed, including higher taxes, socialized medicine and homosexual marriage bill, just for starters. YOU kept CA from fully decending into a socialist h*ll. Be proud of it.
The return of 'Zelda-Care'.
Sheila's chair of the Senate health sub-committee, which held a hearing on the Governor's bill two weeks ago. Just watching her, it was evident that she intended to try to torpedo any chance of a more moderate bill passing. You'd think they'd have learned the lesson from 'one bill Gil's' pursuit of drivers licenses for aliens, but once again the Demos are taking an "if I can't have what I want, I'm taking my ball and going home" approach.
So, once again, if Sheila succeeds, her constituents, who claims to care so deeply about, will be deprived of health coverage. What the heck, Sheila, it's just a few thousand tragic outcomes for patients, nowhere near as important as your petty political agenda.
The time to have united as a party was in 2003,, but some were too awestruck by Q factor and sucked in by the hype,, We can't go back, but I hardly see where we are headed today as anywhere close to forward either.
spending, thru the roof, long term debt, thru the roof. you get my drift
Understood. And they did it just to try to embarrass Arnold. I'd be surprised if her bill even gets out of the first committee this year. Dem leaders have their own plan. Kuehl is a lone ranger this time around.
Kuehl must have had a previous girl friend who worked in the health care industry. She prolly jilted poor old Sheila.
Insurance companies are arrogant, evil monstrosities that own the politicians. The only thing worse than having insurance companies pay for our health care would be to have the government pay for it.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Yes, she's the leader, in fact is probably the only one right now, promoting a single-payer (i.e., govnernment) health system."
She is also the lesbian actress who played the girlfriend of Dobie Gillis!!!
If Arnold had bothered to campaign for him, it might have been a different story.
"In the end, I think Arnold will sign it."
Arnold ALREADY VETOED it once and he will veto it again.
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