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California: The universal health plan: Cure's worse than disease
Sacramento Bee ^ | Feb 16, 2003 | Daniel Weintraub

Posted on 02/16/2003 9:03:25 AM PST by John Jorsett

Edited on 04/12/2004 5:48:14 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

In an era when new technologies and cultural changes promise to break apart large institutions and empower individuals, influential forces in the California Legislature are looking to reverse those trends when it comes to one of the most important products any of us consume: health care. With universal coverage as their goal, state Sen. Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) and her allies want to create a new system that would place all 35 million Californians into a single health plan financed by taxes and directed and controlled by the government.


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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: calgov2002; knife; socializedmedicine

1 posted on 02/16/2003 9:03:25 AM PST by John Jorsett
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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2 posted on 02/16/2003 9:03:43 AM PST by John Jorsett
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To: John Jorsett
This is what happens when those who do not even belong to our society are allowed to "participate.' We are no longer a people but merely a population.
3 posted on 02/16/2003 9:19:17 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (Further, the statement assumed)
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To: John Jorsett
Sheila "Zelda" never should have broken up with Dobie Gillis...


4 posted on 02/16/2003 9:23:15 AM PST by ErnBatavia ((Bumperootus!))
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To: John Jorsett
Guess they never heard of Tenn Care:

G.O.P. Congressman Will Support Democrats' Patients' Rights Bill [Free Republic]
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5 posted on 02/16/2003 9:32:40 AM PST by backhoe ("Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...")
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To: John Jorsett
I can't believe I still live here.
6 posted on 02/16/2003 9:50:05 AM PST by ysoitanly
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To: John Jorsett; *calgov2002; snopercod; Grampa Dave; Carry_Okie; SierraWasp; Gophack; RonDog; ...
They never quit piling up the S***!

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7 posted on 02/16/2003 10:16:36 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Recall Gray Davis)
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"It's a grand idea," Kuehl said. "But what we have now has stemmed from no one's idea. It has just grown up, like the streets of Los Angeles."

Well, we see she believes in Central Planning, and does not believe in the market!

She is another of the numerous Socialists Minds piling up the S*** in Sacramento!

They must be removed!

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8 posted on 02/16/2003 10:24:53 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Recall Gray Davis)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Of course Kuehl believes in centralized planning. She's a socialist. Also, socialized medicine is highly sought after by her bare-backing constiuency.
9 posted on 02/16/2003 10:46:40 AM PST by Redcloak (Jøìn thë Çøålìtìon tø Prëvënt the Åbûsë of Ûnnëçëssårìlÿ Lëngthÿ, Vërbøsë ånd Nønsënsìçål Tåg Lìnës)
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10 posted on 02/16/2003 11:05:41 AM PST by Libertarianize the GOP (Ideas have consequences)
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To: John Jorsett
Kuehl's plan would make every California resident eligible...

I notice she didn't use the word "citizen".

11 posted on 02/16/2003 11:18:21 AM PST by Gritty
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This move to shift the burden of the health care costs of unregulated immigration from the general fund to employers is transparent.

Democrats recognize the inevitablity of bankrupting the California treasury if they can't raise revenues substantially to meet the mandated needs of the millions of people that unregulated immigration has created.

Left unregulated, this cycle of immigration leading to anchor babies leading to succesive generations of the third world poor will inudate the state.

This is not a compassionate social issue but a thinly veiled attempt to spread the economic burden of defacto foreign aid to the private sector because, even in the current mood of the citizenry, there would be an economic rebeliion if the real motive was publicised.

12 posted on 02/16/2003 11:47:07 AM PST by Amerigomag
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