Posted on 01/28/2008 3:09:28 PM PST by ElkGroveDan
The California Senate Health Committee just voted down Schwarzenegger's Healthcare scheme.
See these other threads for more details:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960942/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958355/posts
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Best news I’ve heard all year. Excellent! Thanks EGD.
Maybe some of the pols at the capital are using real calculators versus make believe Cracker-Jack calculators?
Real calculators show negative values last I checked.
Real calculators show negative values last I checked.”
I think that’s part of the idea. Make a big government commitment on health care, then when it ends up costing more than “expected” you have a fine opportunity to raise taxes (or, in this case, raise taxes even more).
Probably has... Good news for lefties seems to travel fast, sorta like an infection.
Excellent news! Thanks!
For those who have the Cal Channel Perata and his goons are having a press conference now.
Geez it’s nice to hear good news for a change.
When the most liberal state legislature in the nation takes a stand against the most liberal Republican executive in the nation, are they then fiscal conservatives? This is just too funny. The California state legislature takes a stance to the right of the governator. Must have been those darn girlie-men that cast the deciding votes.
Senate panel kills Schwarzenegger health coverage bill
By Aurelio Rojas
Published 3:23 pm PST Monday, January 28, 2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger suffered his biggest legislative defeat Monday when a Senate committee blocked his yearlong effort to provide health care coverage to most Californians without insurance.
The $14.9 billion annual plan, hailed as the most sweeping effort by any state to provide near-universal health care, was negotiated by the Republican governor and Democratic Speaker Fabian Núñez but died in the Senate Health Committee.
Only one of the seven Democrats on the panel voted for AB 1X1 — authored by Núñez, D-Los Angeles, and Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland — while all four Republicans voted against bill.
Opponents, citing a report released last week by the Legislative Analyst’s Office that concluded the plan might be underfunded by billions of dollars, said they were concerned about adding to the state’s projected $14.5 billion deficit.
“It doesn’t matter how many good things are in the bill if there isn’t money to pay for them,” said Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica and chairwoman of the committee.
Democrats said they also believed a provision requiring most workers to contribute to the cost of their health coverage would be unaffordable for some families and not ensure adequate coverage.
Republicans warned that another provision requiring most employers to contribute to their workers’ coverage would force many small business out of coverage.
Schwarzenegger and Núñez maintained the plan would raise enough revenues to pay for itself through the employer and employee contributions, a fee on hospitals, an additional $1.75 tax on a pack of cigarettes and leveraging the money to increase matching federal funds.
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/668531.html
Ditto that!
My, the guy that many here told us that we threw our vote away with McClintock, is further to the left that these scum libs in Sacramento. I’ll betcha y’all would give us some idiotic explaination as to why you would vote this fool back in again if possible. NEVER forget a RINO is a RINO or worse a Arnold. Now get out there a put a vote in for McLame as he is the only one that can beat The Hildabeast. sarc
Looks like we may have dodged the bullet for this year at least.
It must have some tiny little speck of a free market solution in it, or perhaps they just thought it wasn’t socialist enough.
YAY! Sanity pokes it’s head out of it’s hole every once in a while here in La La Land...
Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for McClintock
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