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  • Arnold's Health Care Flop (Wall Street Journal Editorial)

    08/15/2007 2:09:50 PM PDT · by goldstategop · 5 replies · 807+ views
    Flash Report ^ | 08/15/2007 | WSJ Editorial Via Flash Report
    Arnold's Health Flop After Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled his universal health-care plan for California in January, almost everyone was laying down palms in Sacramento. Here was a Republican Governor putting aside political squabbling and "doing big things that Washington has failed to do," as Time magazine put it. What a change seven months later, with the plan on the cusp of collapse. There's a lesson here about health-care "bipartisanship" when it's merely a cover for bad policy. The California legislature is now in the second month of the fiscal year without a budget. Deadlocks are routine because the state requires a...