Posted on 01/02/2007 10:54:03 AM PST by NormsRevenge
When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to build public support for his eagerly awaited health care overhaul, he turned to a study by the New America Foundation.
The report, released recently by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute, concluded that the average family in California pays a $1,200 "hidden tax" to subsidize health care for the uninsured.
Never mind that Families USA, a liberal advocacy group, released a similar study in 2005. The Schwarzenegger administration has cultivated a close relationship with the New America Foundation, whose centrist philosophy is more in tune with the governor.
Administration officials heard New America was working on the study and asked, " 'Hey, can we use this thing?' " recalled Len Nichols, director of the foundation's health policy program.
"I said, 'Well, sure,' " said Nichols, an economist, adding that New America also has been approached for advice by five presidential aspirants as rising health care costs become a top domestic issue.
As the governor prepares to unveil his health care plan in his Jan. 9 State of the State speech, New America's proposals on how to increase access for the nearly 7 million Californians without insurance may shed some light on the biggest guessing game in the Capitol.
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Uh, OK.
They're Progressives, nothing more, nothing less.
and guess who their poster boy is... and who the backers are.
The New America Foundation
http://www.newamerica.net/
"New America's proposals on how to increase access for the nearly 7 million Californians"
Out of curiosity . . . how many illegal aliens now live in California?
The next President has to be ready to say this to California, when it comes begging for money to bail it out of its fiscal mess:
Drop dead.
"average family in California pays a $1,200 "hidden tax" to subsidize health care for the uninsured."
Hmmmm some math. I pay $470 a mnth for insurance for just me (it just went up $100 per mnth).
1200/12=100
So I could subtract $100 a mnth, which is my increase for this yr, if I only didn't have to pay for EVERYONE else!
There was another article recently that said that each illegal alien in California costs a California taxpaying family around $1200 a yr.
So if I wasn't paying for everyone else's medical care and wasn't subsidizing the illegal aliens, my bill would go done $200 a mnth.
Amazing.
Yeppers! With convenient propaganda to support more socialism.
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