A Call for Universal Health Care in California

The New York Times ^ | December 3, 2002 | MILT FREUDENHEIM

[sarcasm]

our presumption is that a new tax dedicated to this purpose would have wide political support."

From whom?

[goldstategop]

Hillary or is that Algore Care comes to California.

[Axenolith]

If this occurs, C-YA, last one out don't forget to turn out the lights...

[goldstategop]

Its bears watching to see if the GOP in the State Legislature breaks its "No New Taxes" pledge to get glowing coverage in the Los Angeles Times.

[gubamyster]

I hope the take the Matricula Consular card so we can insure all the illegals too. (/sarcasm)

Wide political support? Like Hell they will.

[AFPhys]

Gee ::: what a surprising story... an insurance company wants the state to pass legislation requiring that companies buy insurance. This is probably just his grand idea of how he can help out the little guys. With MY money. Into HIS pocket.

[MarkM]

Then all the illegal aliens can have health insurance at taxpayer expense.

[sarcasm]

Why would California need higher taxes? I thought that illegal aliens caused an economic boom.

[DoughtyOne]

If that's a tax that can be paid in lead, I'm all for it.

[sarcasm]

How could you be opposed to paying this tax in pesos dollars?

[John Lenin]

From whom?

The RATS are confident that they got the voter fraud apparatus down.

[Nick Danger]

Gee ::: what a surprising story... an insurance company wants the state to pass legislation requiring that companies buy insurance. This is probably just his grand idea of how he can help out the little guys. With MY money. Into HIS pocket.

Isn't that funny? And here's the New York Times hyping it up, as if a pitch from an insurance salesman is some big social program.

[goldstategop]

I guess he figured its not the time to run those commercials that beat the stuffing out of HillaryCare back in the mid-90s.

[DoughtyOne]

Dollars? Get with the program fella. LOL

[A CA Guy]

This has worked nowhere else, what makes anyone think this will do anything in California but kill people faster and raise health costs out of sight.

You want health costs to go down around the country?
Tort and jury award reform is needed.

[goldstategop]

Who do you think is the biggest contributor to the California Democrats? Pick your first guess and you'll understand what's driving this state towards adopting full blown socialized medicine here.

[purkinje]

The illegal aliens already get free heath care in California at taxpayer expense. I am a UCLA med school graduate, now practicing in Nevada. when I worked in an ER setting it was not unusual for critically ill patients to show up in the ER from Mexico with their records translated into English . Mexican citizens would show up in chronic renal failure and eventually get put on chronic dialysis/ Medi-cal to the tune of $36000.00 per year.
Last year I visited a clinic at LA County USC to observe their physicians give BOTOX injections to patients with spasticity and dystonia. Out of the 20 patients that showed up that day only one guy had insurance but because no one bothered to even contact the insurance company ( this guy was not even a California resident) they didn't get paid. The drug is idiotically expensive ( ie $400.00/ 1cc) and the MD's there gave it out indescriminately.One lady drove up to the clinic I recall from central Mexico to get her shots, she at least "paid" for her thousands of dollars of medications with some home made tamales that she brought for the doctors. The taxpayers of California spend perhaps $250,000 on this one clinic that meets once a month based on my observations. If this guy at Blue Cross has his way, think how much health care will cost once it's free.

[A CA Guy]

So you think they are going for it while they still posses all the power in California? Makes sense, but this will bring on the biggest Republican conversion ever if they try this socialized baloney.

[Joe Boucher]

And who will pay for this?
I've heard that Calif can't aford a big mac more less universal health care.

[bayareablues]

This makes me physically ill. I just cannot believe that elected officials have so little disregard for the working people of this country. California is careening off of the planet. A study of what can happen on a national scale if the Democrats ever get control of the executive and the legislative branches.