[pickledpepperRN]

Panel kills Schwarzenegger's health plan

Calling it 'fundamentally flawed,' Senate Health Committee rejects the governor's proposal requiring insurance coverage.
January 29, 2008

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's audacious plan to arrange medical insurance for nearly all Californians -- one watched as a potential model for the nation -- was rejected Monday by the state Senate, obliterating the chance of anything but piecemeal healthcare changes from the Legislature this year.

The Senate Health Committee voted down the $14.9-billion proposal, which would have required people to hold private insurance and subsidized the premiums for those who could not afford them. The repudiation came from Republicans and Democrats, with only one of 11 senators backing the plan that Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez (D-Los Angeles) spent much of 2007 putting together….

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics...030,full.story

[Spidey's mom]

Thank God . . . . .

steph

[pickledpepperRN]

Originally Posted by stevielynn

Thank God . . . . .

steph

Right!
Why should taxpayers money be used to enrich insurance corporations?

United health paid William W McGuire compensation of $124.8 million that people paid for healthcare.

Yet these corporations deny care and refuse to sell insurance to those with pre-existing conditions.

[Jolie]

Originally Posted by spacenurse

Right!
Why should taxpayers money be used to enrich insurance corporations?

United health paid William W McGuire compensation of $124.8 million that people paid for healthcare.

Yet these corporations deny care and refuse to sell insurance to those with pre-existing conditions.

I'm quite sure we have different reasons for being glad that this plan was defeated. But on this we can agree: It was a bad plan.

[Spidey's mom]

Originally Posted by Jolie

I'm quite sure we have different reasons for being glad that this plan was defeated. But on this we can agree: It was a bad plan.

It was a bad plan and I'll venture to say we agree on the reasons.

steph

[pickledpepperRN]

Ten Lessons for the Candidates from the California Healthcare Fiasco
Posted January 29, 2008

Before the leading Democratic candidates come to California for the upcoming super Tuesday primary February 5 and spend a lot of time talking about their health plans, they might want to cast a look at the demise of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's much ballyhooed healthcare bill….

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rose-a...i_b_83865.html