Posted on 01/22/2010 7:13:17 AM PST by reaganaut1
Democrats in California revived a bill on Thursday that would create a single-payer, universal health care system in the state.
While the move came as questions arose over the prospects of Congress adopting national health care legislation, the author of the California bill, State Senator Mark Leno, said that the timing was coincidental. Mr. Leno said it was basically a long-planned reintroduction of a 2009 proposal that was effectively tabled because of its potential cost. But he did concede that Tuesday’s special Senate election in Massachusetts, in which Democrats lost their filibuster-proof 60-vote majority, was not completely lost on him.
“Scott Brown did not push me to do this,” said Mr. Leno, referring to the newly elected Republican senator from Massachusetts. But, he said, “as a result of Tuesday’s election, there is ever greater need for leadership in state legislatures to reform health care.”
Regardless of its relation to the debate in Washington, Republicans in Sacramento jumped at the opportunity to slam the Democratic plan, which would establish a statewide health care system to cover all residents, using a new state agency to negotiate and set fees for services and pay claims.
“California Democrats are either tone-deaf or delusional,” Ron Nehring, the California Republican Party chairman, said in a statement. “They’re determined to double down on a $200 billion health care plan that voters don’t want and taxpayers can’t afford.”
Christine Kehoe, a San Diego Democrat and the chairwoman of the State Senate appropriations committee, which revived Mr. Leno’s bill, said the costs to the state would be $1 million in the next fiscal year because the bill would only initially create a commission to find ways to pay for expanded health care.
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dumb dumb .. they cant afford the schools they have .. well put them on notice we will not bail them out..
This state is incapable of psying for something like this.
What do they think about recent election results?
brain dead Democrats ... You can’t fix stupid.
An email I recieved today:
From an ER doctor
I live and work in a border state overrun with illegals; they make more money having kids than we earn working full time; today I had a 25 year old with 8 kids that’s right 8; all illegal anchor babies and she had the nicest nails;cell phone;hand bag; clothing etc; she makes about 1500 monthly for each; do the math. I used to say “we are the dumbest nation on earth” now I must say and sadly admit: YOU are the dumbest people on earth (that includes me) for we elected the idiot ideologues who have passed the bills that allow this; sorry; we need a revolution; Vote em all out in 2010.
Illegal seniors get more than American seniors on Social Security!
REMEMBER-—IN NOVEMBER 2010 WE HAVE
A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO CLEAN OUT
THE ENTIRE HOUSE AND ONE-THIRD OF THE SENATE.
This is an insult and a kick in the butt to all of us...
Get mad and pass it on - I don’t know how, but maybe some good will come of this travesty.
If the immigrant is over 65, they can apply for SSI and Medicaid and get more than a woman on Social Security, who worked from 1944 until 2004.
She is only getting $791 per month because she was born in 1924 and there’s a ‘catch 22.’
It is interesting that the federal government provides a single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890. Each can also obtain an additional $580 in social assistance, for a total of $2,470 a month.
This compares to a single pensioner, who after contributing to the growth and development of America for 40 to 50 years, can only receive a monthly maximum of $1,012 in old age pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement.
Maybe our pensioners should apply as refugees!
Consider sending this to all your American friends, so we can all be ticked off and maybe get the refugees cut back to $1,012 and the pensioners up to $2,470. Then we can enjoy some of the money we were forced to submit to the Government over the last 40 or 50 or 60 years. And not to receive a increase for 2010 Vote them all out of office…….
Please forward to every American to expose what our elected politicians have been doing the past 11 years to over-taxed Americans.
I’m all in favor of this. This is what federalism is about. Let the blue states coimmit suicide if they want.
Calif is already almost bankrupt thanks to the Dems which control the State. This should push it over the edge just fine.
This is a good way to make California a (bigger) hell hole. The people paying will leave, people leeching will gravitate.
SnakeDoc
Declare California a separate nation, kick them out of the US, and deny them representation in the US government. Then we see five years from now how well they are doing in their balance of trade with the rest of the world, INCLUDING the remaining 49 states in the US.
>It is interesting that the federal government provides a single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890. Each can also obtain an additional $580 in social assistance, for a total of $2,470 a month.
Is this REALLY true? Can someone link to a reliable site where
it is documented that illegal trash can get this kind of taxpayer cash?
I find it almost impossible to believe.
You just ruined my day. How can we be so stupid?
the author of the California bill, State Senator Mark Leno
They may as well let Jay Leno write the bill, because this is a joke!
politically tone deaf.
I living in CA for 42 years ... and this is the surest way to kill it off. One good thing - Ca will not need a southern border anymore - the whole freaking state will belong to Mexico. Ole!
$1,500 per month per child sounds way high. Did you check it out before posting it?
Californians should have the right to destroy their state if they want so long as the rest of the nation doesn’t have to pay for it. It’s called federalism, and it’s the best chance for conservatives and liberals to co-exist in one nation.
Mark Leno is a former supervisor for San Francisco. Say no more. They might want to ask how the “universal” health care crap already in place in San Francisco is bankrupting the City. Leno is a socialist moron.
A little personal history re this maggot infected pos, Leno:
He is openingly gay and his Gerry Mandered district includes Gay Frisco, Marin County and part of Sonoma county.
We need a nationwide boycott of Gay Frisco to voice our dislike of Pelosi and this maggot infected POS.
Gay Frisco has been hammered by the economic meltdown and continues to open its doors to illegals, druggies and other dregs of society.
If Americans across the country refused to come to Gay Frisco on vacations and for business meetings, they might get the message and get rid of Pelosi and maggots like this one.
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