Health care proposals due to reach lawmakers

Sacramento Bee ^ | April 22, 2007 | Clea Benson - Bee Capitol Bureau

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After months of buildup, lawmakers may finally begin the debate this week on how to provide health coverage to an estimated 6.5 million uninsured Californians.

Californians could learn more about the potential costs and details of Democratic leaders' competing bills, which are the most likely vehicles if major changes are to be enacted this year.

But among all the weighty issues, the basic debate could come down to how much health coverage a person really needs.

At the very least, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- whose own sweeping proposal has yet to be written into any bill -- would like to see Californians required to purchase what amounts to a liability policy. He has suggested, at minimum, a $1,200-a-year plan with a $5,000 deductible that would pay the costs of hospitalizations and treatment that can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Meanwhile, the real-life tension between costs and benefits is now playing out in Massachusetts, which last year became the first state to require all its residents to purchase health coverage. Massachusetts this month exempted nearly 20 percent of the uninsured from buying the mandatory insurance when it became clear that even the high-deductible health plans would be unaffordable for them

The Gubernator's excellent adventure...

[goldstategop]

Government will just end up making health care more unaffordable. The Law Of Unintended Consequences at work.

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[AuntB]

There was another article today about prison overcrowding in Calif. Healthcare has the same problem. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION!

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[spikeytx86]

If the Governors goal is to expand health care to all the uninsured, I would say by simply requiring two forms of identification proving that one has the legal right to reside and work in the state of California as a means of accessing benefits would free up more then enough funds.