By Bob Parks ——Bio and Archives--January 25, 2010
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Isn’t California around $40 billion in debt? Isn’t California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger constantly seen loitering around Capitol Hill looking for a taxpayer bailout of his fiscally irresponsible, Democrat-led state? And now they want to do what the nation rejected. Smart, no. Arrogant, absolutely.CA Democrats Revive Single-Payer Health Care Plan
A key legislative committee in California revived a bill Thursday to create a government-run health care system in the nation’s most populous state, two days after Massachusetts elected a senator who opposes the president’s national health care plan. The Senate Appropriations Committee released the bill for a vote by the full Senate next week. The legislation had been held over from last year because of the state’s ongoing budget crisis. Creating a single-payer system would cost California an estimated $210 billion in its first year. That’s roughly double the size of the total state budget, but about what the state and federal government and residents cumulatively spend now on California health care, said Sen. Mark Leno.
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Bob Parks is a is a member/writer of the National Advisory Council of Project 21. Bob’s websites are Black & Right and youtube.com/BlackAndRight