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Arnold will veto universal health care boodle

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Tuesday that he will veto a universal health care bill that is headed for his desk, claiming the measure would set up a "vast new bureaucracy" that would be too expensive. The Republican governor said the single-payer system proposed by Sen. Sheila Kuehl would "cost the state billions and lead to significant new taxes on individuals and businesses, without solving the critical issue of affordability. "I won't jeopardize the economy of our state for such a purpose," the governor said in a statement.

Posted by Fred 2006-09-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hip hip hooray!

Posted by Crutle Thromoper7421 2006-09-06 00:37|| 2006-09-06 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Universal health will attract every sick Mexican from Tapachula to Tijuana.

Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-09-06 03:42|| 2006-09-06 03:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Snease: They have free healthcare already! Hospital emergency rooms were turned into free clinics years ago by a Federal Gummit that mandated ...... no sick person left behind, to include child birth, which produces instant US citizenship. Nothing is free however, you and your insurance company pick up the tab.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-06 07:44|| 2006-09-06 07:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Extortion funded treatment rationing is what you get.

Like every socialist idea it will only end up killing people.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2006-09-06 08:16|| 2006-09-06 08:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, BP, thats whats in store for everyone in the end. No one gets out of this life alive. Unfortunately, like the Pharaohs of old, the newly empowered population has been sold a bill of goods that they too can obtain immortality simply by robbing everyone else. So we end up with a black hole of a health care system in which more is spent on the last 6 months of our lives that buys those 6 months than is spent on the first 16 years which would buy literally many years. Medicare was zero percent of the national budget in 1960 cause it didnt exist. Look at it today as percentage of the federal budget. Its not going to get smaller. It wont even see real control till we accept the fundamental fact that death is as natural as birth and, once a lot of stupid human tricks are removed from the calculation, largely determined by genetics.

Posted by Glomort Glons9693 2006-09-06 09:03|| 2006-09-06 09:03|| Front Page Top

#6 If you look at it this way.

If someone else is picking up the tab for your bad habits, then why change?

Extortion funded treatment rationing systems actively DISCOURAGE healthy choices.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2006-09-06 09:54|| 2006-09-06 09:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Sheila Kuehl deserves a Thugburg link.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-09-06 10:23|| 2006-09-06 10:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Wikipedia: She is better known for her portrayal of the "irrepressible" Zelda Gilroy in the long-running 1950s TV show The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Her own spinoff series as Zelda was cancelled (four episodes were filmed, but never aired) after rumors of her homosexuality circulated, the reason given being that she was too "butch".

Kuehl then changed her focus to academics and was accepted in the first group of women admitted into Harvard Law School. She became known as a feminist lawyer in her professional life.

Kuehl was first elected to the California State Assembly in 1994, becoming the first openly gay person elected to the California legislature.

Posted by Bobby 2006-09-06 10:54|| 2006-09-06 10:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, at least he got one right. He's been signing a whole slew of bullshit rules and regs into law lately.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-09-06 12:36|| 2006-09-06 12:36|| Front Page Top

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