Dr. Claire Pomeroy helps Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez try a white lab coat on for size following a news conference at UC Davis Medical Center's pediatrics unit.
Posted on 12/22/2006 7:47:16 AM PST by SmithL
Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez on Thursday outlined a proposal to provide health insurance to all children in the state and to ask employers and employees to pay their "fair share" of coverage.
"We're going to enact the children's coverage and the reforms of the shared employee-employer responsibility by 2008," Núñez, D-Los Angeles, said at a news conference at UC Davis Medical Center. "That is a clear-cut objective of this proposal."
Núñez's broad plan to insure all Californians comes on the heels of a similar proposal from Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, last week. The two plans would require employers to either provide insurance or pay into a state pool to purchase insurance for workers. The workers would then be required to buy that insurance.
It's unclear how much either plan will cost. Both lawmakers have asked the California HealthCare Foundation to determine the costs.
The speaker said he is adamant about insuring all of California children -- whether they are legal residents or not. "The only document I care about for children is a clean bill of health," Núñez said.
Health care is fast becoming Sacramento's top priority for 2007. Besides the two Democratic lawmakers' plans, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has been meeting with health care advocates in recent weeks, is expected to reveal his own plan for dealing with the estimated 6.5 million California residents without health insurance when he makes his State of the State speech Jan. 9.
While the two lawmakers share the same vision for expanding employer health care coverage, the two plans have slightly different approaches.
Perata's plan calls for granting personal tax exemptions and dependent credit to people who show proof of insurance on tax returns. Núñez's plan does not address incentives except to say employees must...
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It's for the children, doncha' know?
And, what?
About 25% of CA children are illegals as well, right?
(But they vote! Note the surnames of all involved.)
Major league fruitcake alert . . .
Any guesses on when Cali-forn-nia will be bankrupt?
It would seem to me that there should be a Federal law that stipulates that any politician who votes for any measure that costs the taxpayer's money should put up a large sum of his/her OWN money to help fund it. Probably should be a percentage of the projected cost, and if the cost goes over the projected cost, he/she will be liable for the shortfall.
I am so tired of these folks buying votes with taxpayer money and not having the bear the burden themselves.
susie
It's unclear how much either plan will cost.
Oh, I feel like singing a song.
We gotta get out of this place
If it's the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
'Cause girl, there's a better life for me and you
"From each according to their abilities to each according to their needs."
Communism coming to all of us soon. Thank the RINOs.
The ONLY people responsible for insuring children are their parents or legal gardians.
We all know that wearing a hat don't make you a cowboy...
Well, yes, but this will help fix that injustice. Once everyone's paying for them, everyone will have an investment in them and a little more right to the children and their futures. It's brother'skeeperism.
Your skull was once yours alone, too, but soon after insurance became mandatory, you had to wear a helmet because everybody had a stake in it.
Same thing here. They are staking a claim in other people's children, loosening the ancient bonds of families and investing in the slave futures.
California is truly becoming an HMO for MExico.
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