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Four things that aren't mentioned in this article.

1) The bill passed the committe on a straight party line vote.

2) The California Senate is populated by a group of ultraliberal ideologs that survive because of the 1998 redistricting plan. These ideologs do not respresent the median values of even democrats and are insulated from election pressure by the tortured, gerrymandered districts created in 1998 in allow just such nonsense.

3) The "unisured" in California have a full range of health care available to them through the well developed and politically perverted clinic and emergency room concepts.

4) Last but not least. This "universal" healthcare is simply a ploy to shift the escalating cost of the health care system from the taxpayer to the employer. This plan will remove these skyrocking costs form the budget but these costs won't go away. They simply will not be treated as a budget item.