Posted on 11/02/2007 10:40:59 AM PDT by SmithL
"I would ask you to keep in mind that there is a fair amount to praise in the governor's plan," Núñez said to his colleagues. "In fact, I would say that some of the governor's more progressive proposals haven't even been made by Democratic governors around the country."
Given those words, you'd think that state leaders could strike a deal any day now, and they could – with the right atmospherics. Stick Schwarzenegger, Núñez and Senate Leader Don Perata in a room – one in which they could no longer hear or see labor protesters comparing the governor's plan to the grim reaper. Left undistracted, the governor could be free of anti-tax zealots who refuse to recognize that our current health care system – with 6.7 million people uninsured – imposes huge costs on businesses and taxpayers.
The speaker acknowledges that the governor "has made some movement" in revising his proposal. Now it's time for Núñez to make some concessions. Ever since it was introduced, the speaker's proposal – Assembly Bill 8 – has required employers to shoulder the bulk of the burden in financing an expansion of health insurance. The speaker needs to move off his mandate that employers pay a minimum of 7.5 percent of payroll to pay for health care, and move that figure closer to 5 percent.
...Once the governor and lawmakers have settled such issues, they still will be left with a minor detail – $2 billion or so needed to close the deal.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Just saying...
* Fascism. Does the phrase "greater good" ring a bell?
...whereas Liberalism, socialism, democracy, and the other progressive movements of the nineteenth century had asserted the rights of man, the selfish claims of the individual, Fascism sought, instead, to uphold the moral integrity and higher collective purpose of the nation.
I think it would be a good idea for CA, NY, NJ, MI, and assorted other Blue States to pass socialized medicine in order to take the pressure off the federal government to do so. Better to euthanize the Blue States for the good of the nation.
I remember hillary clinton, during her Health Care thingy....
no employee should HAVE to stay with their job because of their employers Health Care program. That’s criminal and holding people back. So what do we have today.....
Many of our manufacturing jobs have gone overseas, employers are not providing a health care package.
And we are on a fast track to UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE. And it will be sold to us as free.
"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
And, given the current RINO-ish bent of CAGOP, that's really saying something.
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