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Posted on 08/30/2006 8:11:54 AM PDT by calcowgirl
Like a lot of voters, 50-year-old Lee Steele of Mountain View is increasingly concerned about the bite health care premiums take out of his paycheck.
But he was especially concerned to learn Tuesday that both of the major party candidates for California governor don't support a bill pending in the Legislature that would create a state-run universal health care system.
The bill, authored by state Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, would replace -- if fully implemented -- private health care plans with a statewide program that would cover all Californians.
It would establish a commission that would develop a plan that would be submitted to the governor and the Legislature by 2009, which lawmakers could either adopt or change.
The measure passed the state Assembly on Monday and is expected to be ratified by the Senate before the end of the legislative session Thursday.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has already signaled his opposition to the proposal, saying in a July speech that government should not be the one to take on the management of big programs like a medical care system for the entire state.
But state Treasurer Phil Angelides, the governor's Democratic rival, announced that he's also opposed -- even though a campaign aide said in June he supported Kuehl's bill.
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Amanda Crumley, spokeswoman for Angelides, said that the treasurer -- unlike the governor -- supports the concept of universal health care.
Although a campaign aide said in June that Angelides supports the Kuehl bill, Crumley said the treasurer has been consistent in his support of only "working toward" universal coverage beginning with coverage for all children and moving to coverage for workers at large employers.
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But Bill Handel on KFI, the idiot of L.A., is all for this. Then he pretends he's a fiscal conservative.
Kuehl has become a real menace at the capitol.
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(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
Become? She and her cabal have been a menace for some time now. A lethal menace.
Even when others on this forum confronted the FairOpinion account with contemporary quotes from Angelides to the contrary, the account refused to retract and just kept publishing the misinformation.
"But state Treasurer Phil Angelides, the governor's Democratic rival, announced that he's also opposed -- even though a campaign aide said in June he supported Kuehl's bill.
And SEVERAL other articles said the same thing, that Angelides DOES support universal healthcare -- he just must have done some focus groups and found out that most people in CA don't support it, so now he doesn't support the bill. Just like on the Jessica's law bill -- Arnold has been for it from the start, Angelides couldn't make up his mind, finally months later he decided it's popular enough that he should support it, and then said he supports it.
I'm guessing that admitting a lie, when caught red handed, is almost impossible. In the same league as voting for a conservative Democrat I'll bet.
Angelides, on the other hand is on record that he would sign it...Angelides will sign it....Angelides said he will sign ..
The lie didn't claimed that Angelides supported SB 840, which he does. The lie didn't even claim that Angelides favors UHC, which he does.
The lie claimed that Angelides would sign SB 840, if elected governor. Specifically, the lie claimed that Angelides had made a public statement, for the record, that he would sign SB 840, if elected governor in November 2006.
I remember that thread. It went on and on, posting denial after denial,
spewing insults along the way to anyone that didn't drink the koolaid being served.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691665/posts
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