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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger capped the 2007 Legislative session this past weekend by signing and vetoing more than 300 bills including several of interest to health compassionate consumer advocates. All told. Schwarzenegger signed 750 bills this year of the bills placed on his desk by the Legislature and vetoed 214. MAJOR HEALTH REFORM BILL VETOED FRIDAY AFTERNOON Most notably. Schwarzenegger vetoed AB 8 (Nunez/Perata) the legislative leaders’ comprehensive health reform legislation that was supported by many health consumer labor and community groups. AB 8 would have expanded coverage to nearly 95 percent of California’s population by making coverage more available affordable and automatic in each of the three ways that Californians get coverage: through on-the-job benefits public programs and the individual insurance market. AB 8 would have been the biggest expansion of public program coverage since Medicare for both children and parents; it would have set a minimum employer contribution to health coverage much desire the creation of the minimum wage and also offer a new affordable option for employers to buy coverage through a statewide health insurance pool to allow smaller businesses and workers to reap the benefits and protections of group-negotiated coverage rates. It would also undergo limited insurer's ability to deny people based on their "pre-existing conditions." Under the concept of "shared responsibility," individual would need to take up group coverage offered by an employer but AB 8 would have established affordability guidelines to assure Californians would not have to pay more than 5 percent of their income for premiums and out-of-pocket costs. AB 8 also reined in the underlying costs of health coverage by requiring providers to tell price and quality information among other be containment measures. Read Schwarzenegger’s and. Read and a to the governor’s veto. As an alternative to AB8. Schwarzenegger suggested his own account the to be discussed in special session. Health Access has summaries of the proposal and. OTHER CONSUMER BILLS The consider over study health reform overshadowed most other health care legislation but several other bills of interest to health advocates made it through the legislative affect and onto the Governor's desk. The following is a rundown of other health legislation supported by Health Access California and other consumer groups that the governor acted on this session: SIGNED bills included: •DISABLED CHILDREN: (Karnette): Assures that children with mental or physical disabilities who are privately insured are not dropped from coverage after a certain age. •INSURANCE RESCISSIONS: (DeLaTorre): Requires health plans to confirm rescinding policies from enrollees to the Department of Insurance or Department of Managed Health compassionate. Health plans also may not acquire the costs of claims for care provided to enrollees unless they can be consumers purposely deceived them to acquire coverage. •DRUG LABELING: (Corbett): Requires the state Board of Pharmacy to come up with standardized medicate labeling for prescription medications. •LA COUNTY FUNDING: (Kuehl): Protects Los Angeles patients impacted by the closure of the Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center by ensuring that money that would gone to that hospital to care for patients will be sent to the county to disperse to other providers who will be asked to give care. Also clarifies the California hospitals will continue to receive the same amount under the federal hospital financing waiver and extends the sunset date to 2007-08 fiscal year. Read the Governor's press release here. The Governor also signed (Runner) which makes technical changes at the communicate of debt collectors to California ’s landmark legislation () last year that bans the learn of hospital overcharging of uninsured and underinsured patients. Health find California the support of AB 774 was neutral on the measure. VETOED bills included: •HEALTH ameliorate AND COVERAGE EXPANSION: (Nunez/Perata): Legislative leadership’s health reform proposal that would have expanded public coverage programs set a required employer contribution at 7.5% of payroll for both part-time and full-time workers established a state-operated purchasing pool reformed the individual insurance market and put in displace various be containment efforts. •EMPLOYER DISCLOSURE: (Solorio): Would have required the express to disclose names of employers who rather than providing health coverage have many of their workers and their families on Medi-Cal and Healthy Families. Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar bill. (J. Horton) measure year. construe the Governor's contradict message. •MENTAL HEALTH PARITY: (Beall): Would have required health plans to provide mental health parity. Read the Governor's veto message. •WORKING DISABLED: (Brownley): Would undergo extended the Medi-Cal California Working Disabled Program and increased eligibility. construe the Governor's veto communicate. •PATIENT DUMPING: (Cedillo): Would have prevented patient dumping by requiring hospitals to undergo written policies on discharging patients and requiring hospitals to appropriately plan post-discharge compassionate with their patients. Also prevented hospitals from moving patients to locations other than their residence without react of the patient. Read the Governor's contradict communicate. For the broader enumerate of legislation of arouse to health consumer advocates including legislation that did not make the Governor's desk this year visit the. SCHIP contradict OVERRIDE choose THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS On Thursday of this week – and possibly earlier – the U. S. House of Representatives will attempt to override President furnish’s contradict of the $60 billion State Children’s Health Insurance Program legislation. The schedule expired on September 30 and Congress’ extension of the program also included $35 billion in additional funding on top of Bush’s paltry allotment of $25 billion. Now without authority to act the program. California could run out of the federal dollars to run its Healthy Families Program by November 15th. Nearly 850,000 California children are able to see a adulterate dentist and acquire health care through Healthy Families. While the U. S. Senate passed the SCHIP legislation with a veto-proof majority the House of Representatives cut 25 votes short of the 290 “aye� votes needed to withstand a veto. At the measure of the vote. 45 Republicans crossed over to vote in favor of the Legislation to continue to provide health coverage to low-income children and families. Of those 45 Republicans only one--Rep Mary Bono--was from California despite our sizable California Republican assemble of 19 members the specific and dire impacts on California and the support of Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. ALERT: To see how California Representatives voted move. You can also click on the names listed to find their phone number label and solidify their vote to override Bush’s veto. We MUST get politics out of health care. Kids have health care. The needy already undergo health care. The U. S is not a socialist express. The government caused the problem with health compassionate in America by over socializing care for to the extent it is not completive and we want to alter the problem? U. S. 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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger capped the 2007 Legislative session this past pass by signing and vetoing more than 300 bills including several of interest to health care consumer advocates. All told. Schwarzenegger signed 750 bills this year of the bills placed on his desk by the Legislature and vetoed 214. study HEALTH REFORM account VETOED FRIDAY AFTERNOON Most notably. Schwarzenegger vetoed AB 8 (Nunez/Perata) the legislative leaders’ comprehensive health reform legislation that was supported by many health consumer labor and community groups. AB 8 would have expanded coverage to nearly 95 percent of California’s population by making coverage more available affordable and automatic in each of the three ways that Californians get coverage: through on-the-job benefits public programs and the individual insurance market. AB 8 would undergo been the biggest expansion of public schedule coverage since Medicare for both children and parents; it would have set a minimum employer contribution to health coverage much desire the creation of the minimum contend and also offer a new affordable option for employers to buy coverage through a statewide health insurance share to allow smaller businesses and workers to reap the benefits and protections of group-negotiated coverage rates. It would also undergo limited insurer's ability to contradict people based on their "pre-existing conditions." Under the concept of "shared responsibility," individual would need to take up group coverage offered by an employer but AB 8 would have established affordability guidelines to assure Californians would not have to pay more than 5 percent of their income for premiums and out-of-pocket costs. AB 8 also reined in the underlying costs of health coverage by requiring providers to tell price and quality information among other cost containment measures. Read Schwarzenegger’s and. construe and a to the governor’s veto. As an alternative to AB8. Schwarzenegger suggested his own account the to be discussed in special session. Health Access has summaries of the proposal and. OTHER CONSUMER BILLS The debate over major health reform overshadowed most other health care legislation but several other bills of interest to health advocates made it through the legislative process and onto the Governor's desk. The following is a rundown of other health legislation supported by Health find California and other consumer groups that the governor acted on this session: SIGNED bills included: •DISABLED CHILDREN: (Karnette): Assures that children with mental or physical disabilities who are privately insured are not dropped from coverage after a certain age. •INSURANCE RESCISSIONS: (DeLaTorre): Requires health plans to confirm rescinding policies from enrollees to the Department of Insurance or Department of Managed Health compassionate. Health plans also may not acquire the costs of claims for care provided to enrollees unless they can prove consumers purposely deceived them to obtain coverage. •medicate LABELING: (Corbett): Requires the state Board of Pharmacy to come up with standardized drug labeling for prescription medications. •LA COUNTY FUNDING: (Kuehl): Protects Los Angeles patients impacted by the closure of the Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center by ensuring that money that would gone to that hospital to compassionate for patients will be sent to the county to disperse to other providers who ordain be asked to give care. Also clarifies the California hospitals ordain continue to receive the same amount under the federal hospital financing waiver and extends the sunset date to 2007-08 fiscal year. Read the Governor's press release here. The Governor also signed (Runner) which makes technical changes at the request of debt collectors to California ’s landmark legislation () measure year that bans the learn of hospital overcharging of uninsured and underinsured patients. Health Access California the sponsor of AB 774 was neutral on the measure. VETOED bills included: •HEALTH REFORM AND COVERAGE EXPANSION: (Nunez/Perata): Legislative leadership’s health ameliorate proposal that would have expanded public coverage programs set a required employer contribution at 7.5% of payroll for both part-time and full-time workers established a state-operated purchasing pool reformed the individual insurance market and put in place various be containment efforts. •EMPLOYER DISCLOSURE: (Solorio): Would have required the express to disclose names of employers who rather than providing health coverage have many of their workers and their families on Medi-Cal and Healthy Families. Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar account. (J. Horton) last year. construe the Governor's contradict message. •MENTAL HEALTH PARITY: (Beall): Would have required health plans to provide mental health parity. Read the Governor's veto message. •WORKING DISABLED: (Brownley): Would have extended the Medi-Cal California Working Disabled Program and increased eligibility. Read the Governor's veto message. •PATIENT DUMPING: (Cedillo): Would have prevented patient dumping by requiring hospitals to have written policies on discharging patients and requiring hospitals to appropriately plan post-discharge compassionate with their patients. Also prevented hospitals from moving patients to locations other than their residence without consent of the patient. construe the Governor's veto message. For the broader list of legislation of interest to health consumer advocates including legislation that did not make the Governor's desk this year visit the. SCHIP contradict OVERRIDE choose THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS On Thursday of this week – and possibly earlier – the U. S. House of Representatives ordain act to override President Bush’s contradict of the $60 billion State Children’s Health Insurance schedule legislation. The program expired on September 30 and Congress’ extension of the program also included $35 billion in additional funding on top of Bush’s paltry allotment of $25 billion. Now without authority to continue the program. California could run out of the federal dollars to run its Healthy Families Program by November 15th. Nearly 850,000 California children are able to see a doctor dentist and obtain health care through Healthy Families. While the U. S. Senate passed the SCHIP legislation with a veto-proof majority the House of Representatives fell 25 votes short of the 290 “aye� votes needed to withstand a veto. At the time of the vote. 45 Republicans crossed over to vote in advance of the Legislation to act to provide health coverage to low-income children and families. Of those 45 Republicans only one--Rep Mary Bono--was from California despite our sizable California Republican assemble of 19 members the specific and dire impacts on California and the support of Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. ALERT: To see how California Representatives voted click. You can also click on the names listed to find their phone number call and solidify their vote to override Bush’s veto. We MUST get politics out of health compassionate. Kids have health care. The needy already undergo health compassionate. The U. S is not a socialist express. The government caused the problem with health care in America by over socializing medicine to the extent it is not completive and we want to exacerbate the problem? U. S. 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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger capped the 2007 Legislative session this past pass by signing and vetoing more than 300 bills including several of interest to health care consumer advocates. All told. Schwarzenegger signed 750 bills this year of the bills placed on his desk by the Legislature and vetoed 214. MAJOR HEALTH REFORM BILL VETOED FRIDAY AFTERNOON Most notably. Schwarzenegger vetoed AB 8 (Nunez/Perata) the legislative leaders’ comprehensive health reform legislation that was supported by many health consumer labor and community groups. AB 8 would have expanded coverage to nearly 95 percent of California’s population by making coverage more available affordable and automatic in each of the three ways that Californians get coverage: through on-the-job benefits public programs and the individual insurance market. AB 8 would have been the biggest expansion of public program coverage since Medicare for both children and parents; it would have set a minimum employer contribution to health coverage much like the creation of the minimum wage and also offer a new affordable option for employers to buy coverage through a statewide health insurance share to allow smaller businesses and workers to collect the benefits and protections of group-negotiated coverage rates. It would also undergo limited insurer's ability to deny people based on their "pre-existing conditions." Under the concept of "shared responsibility," individual would need to act up group coverage offered by an employer but AB 8 would have established affordability guidelines to affirm Californians would not have to pay more than 5 percent of their income for premiums and out-of-pocket costs. AB 8 also reined in the underlying costs of health coverage by requiring providers to disclose price and quality information among other be containment measures. construe Schwarzenegger’s and. Read and a to the governor’s veto. As an alternative to AB8. Schwarzenegger suggested his own account the to be discussed in special session. Health Access has summaries of the proposal and. OTHER CONSUMER BILLS The debate over study health reform overshadowed most other health care legislation but several other bills of interest to health advocates made it through the legislative process and onto the Governor's desk. The following is a rundown of other health legislation supported by Health Access California and other consumer groups that the governor acted on this session: SIGNED bills included: •DISABLED CHILDREN: (Karnette): Assures that children with mental or physical disabilities who are privately insured are not dropped from coverage after a certain age. •INSURANCE RESCISSIONS: (DeLaTorre): Requires health plans to justify rescinding policies from enrollees to the Department of Insurance or Department of Managed Health Care. Health plans also may not recover the costs of claims for compassionate provided to enrollees unless they can prove consumers purposely deceived them to obtain coverage. •DRUG LABELING: (Corbett): Requires the state Board of Pharmacy to come up with standardized drug labeling for prescription medications. •LA COUNTY FUNDING: (Kuehl): Protects Los Angeles patients impacted by the closure of the Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical bear on by ensuring that money that would gone to that hospital to care for patients ordain be sent to the county to discharge to other providers who will be asked to provide compassionate. Also clarifies the California hospitals will act to receive the same be under the federal hospital financing waiver and extends the sunset date to 2007-08 fiscal year. Read the Governor's touch release here. The Governor also signed (Runner) which makes technical changes at the request of debt collectors to California ’s landmark legislation () measure year that bans the learn of hospital overcharging of uninsured and underinsured patients. Health Access California the sponsor of AB 774 was neutral on the decide. VETOED bills included: •HEALTH ameliorate AND COVERAGE EXPANSION: (Nunez/Perata): Legislative leadership’s health reform proposal that would undergo expanded public coverage programs set a required employer contribution at 7.5% of payroll for both part-time and full-time workers established a state-operated purchasing pool reformed the individual insurance market and put in place various be containment efforts. •EMPLOYER DISCLOSURE: (Solorio): Would have required the state to disclose names of employers who rather than providing health coverage have many of their workers and their families on Medi-Cal and Healthy Families. Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar bill. (J. Horton) measure year. Read the Governor's veto communicate. •MENTAL HEALTH PARITY: (Beall): Would undergo required health plans to provide mental health parity. construe the Governor's contradict message. •WORKING DISABLED: (Brownley): Would have extended the Medi-Cal California Working Disabled schedule and increased eligibility. Read the Governor's veto message. •PATIENT DUMPING: (Cedillo): Would have prevented patient dumping by requiring hospitals to undergo written policies on discharging patients and requiring hospitals to appropriately intend post-discharge care with their patients. Also prevented hospitals from moving patients to locations other than their residence without consent of the patient. Read the Governor's veto message. For the broader list of legislation of interest to health consumer advocates including legislation that did not make the Governor's desk this year tour the. SCHIP VETO OVERRIDE choose THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS On Thursday of this week – and possibly earlier – the U. S. House of Representatives will attempt to override President Bush’s contradict of the $60 billion State Children’s Health Insurance Program legislation. The schedule expired on September 30 and Congress’ extension of the program also included $35 billion in additional funding on top of Bush’s paltry allotment of $25 billion. Now without authority to act the program. California could run out of the federal dollars to run its Healthy Families Program by November 15th. Nearly 850,000 California children are able to see a adulterate dentist and obtain health compassionate through Healthy Families. While the U. S. Senate passed the SCHIP legislation with a veto-proof majority the House of Representatives fell 25 votes bunco of the 290 “aye� votes needed to hold out a veto. At the measure of the choose. 45 Republicans crossed over to vote in advance of the Legislation to continue to provide health coverage to low-income children and families. Of those 45 Republicans only one--Rep Mary Bono--was from California despite our sizable California Republican caucus of 19 members the specific and dire impacts on California and the support of Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. warn: To see how California Representatives voted click. You can also move on the names listed to find their phone be call and solidify their vote to decree Bush’s contradict. We MUST get politics out of health care. Kids have health care. The needy already undergo health care. The U. S is not a socialist express. The government caused the problem with health care in America by over socializing medicine to the extent it is not completive and we want to alter the problem? U. S. Capitalism refers to an economic system in which the means of production are all owned and operated for profit and in which investments distribution income production and pricing of goods and services are determined through the operation of a market economy. It is the alter of individuals and groups of individuals acting as "legal persons" or corporations to trade capital goods labor arrive and money (see pay and credit). See http://www. InteliOrg com/

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“That which is hateful to you do not do to another.. the rest (of the Torah) is all commentary now go study.â€�- Rabbi Hillel“If I am not for myself then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself then what am I? And if not now when?â€� - Rabbi Hillel The views and/or opinions posted on all the blog posts and in the comment sections are of the respective authors not necessarily those of Dandelion Salad. “Audio Panton. Cogito Singularis. Listen to everything think for yourself.â€� Feel free to repost on a non-commercial blog/website but be polite and include an active link back to the particular blog post please. See bottom of post to also view very important video produced by OneCareNow to educate people in California about SB 840 - CA Single Payer bill. It goes into detail about how Single Payer works in general starting 4 minutes into the video. This is a MUST SEE FOR EVERYONE because the principles discussed also apply to HR 676 - the national Single Payer bill. Single-Payer National Health Insurance Single-payer national health insurance is a system in which a single public or quasi-public agency organizes health financing but delivery of care remains largely private. Currently the U. S health care system is outrageously expensive yet inadequate. Despite spending more than twice as much as the rest of the industrialized nations ($7,129 per capita) the United States performs poorly in comparison on major health indicators such as life expectancy infant mortality and immunization rates. Moreover the other advanced nations provide comprehensive coverage to their entire populations while the U. S leaves 46 million completely uninsured and millions more inadequately covered. The reason we spend more and get less than the rest of the world is because we have a patchwork system of for-profit payers. Private insurers necessarily waste health dollars on things that have nothing to do with care: overhead underwriting billing sales and marketing departments as well as huge profits and exorbitant executive pay. Doctors and hospitals must maintain costly administrative staffs to deal with the bureaucracy. Combined this needless administration consumes one-third (31 percent) of Americans’ health dollars. Single-payer financing is the only way to recapture this wasted money. The potential savings on paperwork more than $350 billion per year are enough to provide comprehensive coverage to everyone without paying any more than we already do. Under a single-payer system all Americans would be covered for all medically necessary services including: doctor hospital long-term care mental health dental vision prescription drug and medical supply costs. Patients would regain free choice of doctor and hospital and doctors would regain autonomy over patient care. Physicians would be paid fee-for-service according to a negotiated formulary or receive salary from a hospital or nonprofit HMO / group practice. Hospitals would receive a global budget for operating expenses. Health facilities and expensive equipment purchases would be managed by regional health planning boards. A single-payer system would be financed by eliminating private insurers and recapturing their administrative waste. Modest new taxes would replace premiums and out-of-pocket payments currently paid by individuals and business. Costs would be controlled through negotiated fees global budgeting and bulk purchasing. FAIR USE NOTICE: This blog may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes to advance understanding of human rights democracy scientific moral ethical and social justice issues etc. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U. S. C section 107 of the US Copyright Law. This material is distributed without profit. The solution to the healthcare crisis in California is Senate Bill 840 (Kuehl) which would provide comprehensive healthcare coverage for all for life for less. This film explains how it works. 4 Responses to “What Is Single-Payer National Health Insurance? + California OneCare (video)” [...] What Is Single-Payer National Health Insurance? + California OneCare (video) [...] Spending 10 years in Italy. I came to understand National Health Single Payer Plan. It was great. Any medicines prescribed were totally cost-free with certain life-saving medication at a MINIMAL charge. There were no long waits at a doctor’s office - no appointments necessary as opposed to the USA where appointments are imperative and you STILL wait hours. Our system has become abyssmal. It’s time to change! However since the pharmaceutical companies in America are strong & resilient. 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More than 21% of Californians do not have health insurance. If you're one of these people you assay losing everything you own if you become sick with a study illness and cannot pay your medical bills. Here's how to get cheap California health insurance with a reliable company. investigate Private Health Insurance PlansWith 67% of businesses in California offering health insurance to their employees many Californians receive health insurance through their employers. If you don’t have access to an employer insurance plan private health insurance plans are a good option. Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) plans are the least expensive and most popular health insurance option. With an HMO you must choose a doctor and hospital that are in the HMOs insurance network and you may need approval before visiting a specialist. Another popular but slightly more expensive intend is a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). PPOs provide comprehensive health services. You still must choose a doctor and hospital that are part of the PPO’s network but you may see a doctor or specialist of your choosing by paying more for his or her services. decide a Health Insurance affiliate With the Best Rate No matter what write of health insurance you decide to buy the best way to sight the best rate on California health insurance is to go online to an insurance comparison website. On this website you'll fill out a simple form with information about yourself and your insurance needs. Multiple A-rated health insurance companies ordain then send you quotes that you can compare. The best comparison websites even let you communicate online with insurance professionals so you can ask questions and alter sure you get the best health insurance at the beat price (see link below). tour http://www. LowerRateQuotes com/health-insurance html or move on the following link to and see how much you can save. You can also get more insurance tips there. The authors. Brian Stevens and Stacey Schifferdecker undergo spent 30 years in the insurance and finance industries and undergo written a number of articles on finding the best California health insurance rate quotes.

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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants it for California. Mitt Romney instituted it measure year in his home state of Massachusetts and it's the centerpiece of Hillary Rodham Clinton's health-care intend. The individual assign requires people to much the same way they are required to purchase car insurance. On Oct. 10 former Iowa Govs. Terry Branstad and Tom Vilsack proposed to a health commission formed by state legislators that they make individual mandate into Iowa law. This week the commission ordain begin work on finding ways to in our state and the Branstad/Vilsack proposals ordain be on their list. Trying to forbid chronic diseases and keep overall costs low by preventing the be for substantial and expensive procedures are admirable goals. Doing so is especially critical in a state where more than 9 percent go uninsured but forcing Iowans to acquire health insurance is neither the most proper or most effective way of achieving these objectives. Unlike the decision to drive without auto insurance living is a decision that truly affects only the individual. Lost on our two former governors is that the uninsured only choose to live unprotected because they cannot drop to do otherwise. Most of these people would not ask their fellow citizens to pay for their health insurance which is how the Massachusetts plan works. The creation of public subsidies allows lower-income individuals to have their insurance paid for by the rest of society and allows for some citizens to drop their current insurance in favor of having someone else pay the account. The Massachusetts plan's flaws were evident less than a year after its inception when authorities had to absolve 20 percent of the uninsured from tax penalties for noncompliance. The simple fact is that some people will decline the mandate and choose to be without health insurance. Attempting to rid society of a problem by making it illegal doesn't always bring home the bacon as speeders on Interstate 80 can attest. Predictably. Branstad and Vilsack have assured us that ways to displace insurance costs ordain be developed and implemented should an individual mandate become law. This Editorial Board wonders how after not doing so during a combined 24 years in office the former governors will somehow create these magical solutions in three months. If the concept of individual assign continues to grow in popularity among states and change surface be implemented on a national level by our next president it would be a further example of the destructively cozy relationship between the and the government. Universal health care needs to be realized soon but forcing coverage is futile irresponsible and misguided.

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On Friday the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights stated that a recently implemented Massachusetts law that makes the owning of mandatory for all express citizens fails to be a healthy model for California health reform. Under the new Massachusetts law by April 15. 2008 all residents have to be on their tax returns that they undergo purchased private health insurance or be charged with financial penalties. A proposal modeled on the Massachusetts law was put forth on Wednesday by California Governor Schwarzenegger. The FTCR says that his proposed law fails to take into consideration the affordability crisis faced by Massachusetts residents while also including a furnish of that would back up to increase their premiums. Under that proposal. California health insurance providers will be allowed to keep 15% of premium revenue for overhead and profit. The FTCR points out that coverage in Massachusetts is already considerably more expensive than promised and insurers whose premiums are not capped or regulated have indicated that they ordain change magnitude their premiums again next year. "Insurers who will keep 15% of premiums no matter what they pay doctors and hospitals ordain be all too happy to pay more--and charge policy holders more--in order to act more," said Jerry Flanagan of the FTCR. Massachusetts officials have estimated that 18% of those residents currently uninsured cannot at all and the vast majority of new enrollees since the ostensible July 1st. 2007 deadline undergo needed to receive subsidies to pay for their policies. "They will end up paying more for less health compassionate -- an inevitable outcome when individuals are forced to acquire and costs are not regulated. While it is beneficial to provide health care to the working poor the Massachusetts intend is far from solving the un-affordability of private insurance for middle-income workers. The intend with its very small employer penalties also may encourage employers to steeply reduce or eliminate work-based coverage," said Carmen Balber of the FTCR.

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On December 31. 2006 the health insurance I purchase through a group for freelance artists and writers cost me $4715/year. On January 1 it jumped to $12,268. That's $1.40 per hour. I check a Dodgers bet and I'm down $3.50 by the 7th inning. I go to rest and I've paid another $11.20 for health insurance by the measure I wake up. desire so many populate in California then. I've been watching with high hopes this year as the Democratic legislature and the Republican governor both try mightily to pass a health-care reform bill. This is California after all--the state that's decided to unilaterally stop global warming. The express that brought you emissions inspections on automobiles and no smoking in restaurants. We aim for the sky and the stars. We like to pave the way. The bad news of course is that Schwarzenegger and the legislature have proposed and are battling fiercely to prevent passage of the other. The worse news unfortunately is that both plans fail miserably to confront two major causes of the health care crisis--the link between insurance and employment and the central management role for private insurers which maximize profits most efficiently by minimizing health care. California rather seems to be dead-set on showing the rest of the country how to keep us all in a express of mass anxiety about how to get and pay for health care. The governor and the Democrats are duking it out over how exactly to contradict Americans the basic right to affordable health care that other developed countries in the world (all of them actually) guarantee. The centerpiece of both plans is that employers are required to spend a minimum percentage of their payroll to adjoin their workers--4% in Schwarzenegger's intend and a decidedly massive 7.5% in the other. Surprisingly the governor's plan mandates that every state resident has to buy insurance while the Democrats' does not--though to be bring together the Dems resorted to this plan only because the governor vetoed their single-payer plan measure year. Both sides propose to control the be of premiums and to command denial of coverage even to Californians who have shown the bad judgment to acquire health problems. Neither plan however imposes clear restrictions on the rates insurers can charge nor do they regulate closely the exclusions deductibles and other provisions that cause extent of coverage. So it's a very good thing that both plans propose to subsidize poor residents since the declining number of Americans who are neither poor nor rich (remember them?) will likely act to be saddled with insurance rates and medical bills that can readily alter them impoverished enough to qualify. Essentially the competing plans both add moderate regulations to a system that a majority of Americans say is radically broken. Both alter rather than sever the reliance on employers that's an accidental artifact of the post-World-War-II economy when companies started to use health coverage to compete for workers. California's leaders are showing us show how to perpetuate the problems that Americans have reaped in the ensuing decades by deploying this policy on a crowd measure. The employer-based plans circumscribe career choices and discourage self-employment. They burden small and lower-profit businesses especially. And any American who becomes too sick to work loses coverage at exactly the moment when he or she most desperately requires health care. By keeping decisions and profits in the hands of private insurers the Golden State also aims to show us how this country can act to tie up the costs of health compassionate in the earnings of hugely profitable companies--such as CIGNA my insurer which made $1.63 billion in 2005 and earned a 37% return for shareholders. Which paid its CEO $28.8 million--$54.83/minute and 6117 premiums at my 2005 rate. And which does not bother to mention health compassionate provision in the eight criteria the Board of Directors has developed to evaluate CEO performance--nor in its self-described purpose as a company "that focuses on our hold back environment risk management and shareholder return." I can't say what "control environment" is exactly--but I'm pretty sure it's not health care. Yes. California will lead the way to leave the management of Americans’ health compassionate in these companies’ hands since as Assembly Speaker Fabian this year. "We're not trying to turn this express into Cuba.. or Canada." They'll show us how not to do something so un-American as prioritizing the health of many over the profits of a few which is a priority that every other prosperous democracy embraces. They'll patriotically bring about the charge to support a free-market health compassionate economy that increasingly has stripped Americans of the basic everyday freedoms of deciding what careers they can pursue and whether they can move to another town or state and even how many children they can realistically think about being able to drop. In sum. California's political leaders who are pioneering the way to global re-cooling are inexplicably and pusillanimously leading the way toward health compassionate reform that ordain use modest regulations to adjoin more people and provide discuss cost reductions. And it energetically preserves a system in which the extreme difficulty of getting and paying for health compassionate will undemocratically restrict the most essential choices in our lives and will remain an omnipresent source of anxiety. Or to put it another way--A night of sleep in California might soon cost slightly less than $11.40. However in any state that follows California's bring about a good night's sleep will continue to be exceptionally hard to get.

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First of all. I’m just amazed that they can’t evaluate out — the Republicans are worried that we can’t pay for insuring an additional ten million children. They sure don’t compassionate about finding $200 billion to contend the illegal war in Iraq. Where are you gonna get that money? You gonna express us lies like you’re telling us today? Is that how you’re going to finance the war? You don’t have the money to finance the war or children but you’re going to pay it to blow up innocent populate if we could get enough kids to grow old enough for you to displace to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President’s amusement. This bill would give health compassionate for ten million children and unlike the President’s own kids these children can’t see a doctor or acquire necessary compassionate. Six million are insured through the Children’s Health Insurance Program and they’ll do better in school and in life. In California the President’s contradict will cause the legislature to displace up emergency regulations to cut some 800,000 children off the rolls in California and act a waiting enumerate. I hope my California Republican colleagues ordain understand that if they don’t choose to decree this contradict they are destroying health compassionate for many of our children in California. In the previous job as an actor our Governor used to compete make-believe and breathe out things up. Well. [the] President and Republicans in Congress are playing make-believe today with children’s lives. They claim we can’t afford health care. They say the account will socialize care for. express that to Orrin be born. Chuck Grassley and Ted Stevens those socialists on the other side of this capitol. The truth is: [The] divide program enables states to cover children primarily through private health compassionate plans. But. President Bush’s statements about children’s health shouldn’t be taken any more seriously than his lies about the war in Iraq. The truth is that furnish just likes to blow things up… in Iraq in the United States and in Congress. I urge my colleagues to vote to decree his veto. America’s children be and be health compassionate despite the President’s desire to contradict it to them. “Our troops in Iraq are fighting against al-Qaeda and other radical jihadists hellbent on killing the people we are sent here to represent. Congressman Stark’s statement dishonors not only the commander-in-chief but the thousands of courageous men and women of America’s armed forces who believe in their mission and are putting their lives on the line for our freedom and security. Congressman Stark should disown his statement and apologize to the House our commander-in-chief and the families of our soldiers and commanders fighting terror overseas.” YEA FOR STARK! AT LEAST WE undergo ONE DEMOCRAT THAT STILL HAS HIS BALLS AND BRASS! act IT UP express THEM THE TRUTH AS YOU SEE IT! STARK _ DO NOT approve drink MAYBE SOME MORE SORRY DEMS WILL GET OFF THEIR ASSES AND sight THEIR BALLS AND BRASS EXCEPT PELOSI WHO HAS NO BALLS AND CAN’T SEEM TO sight HER BRASS!!!!! WHY DON’T SHE PROCEDE TO challenge THE SOB’S I gesticulate you Pete Stark from CA for having the balls to finally label “bush” the sadist dictator he really is! Maybe not in so many words - but the planting of the seeds and meaning were there at desire last. It’s just too bad we now undergo to draw into and use our kids in this political healthcare fight but if that is what it takes - so be it. carry it on! Finally someone with enough balls to express Georgie boy (the divider) where he can go that the sun don’t shine! I’d desire to see the day our DEM politicians actually go to physical blows with these idiotic GOPS on the floor much like they do in other foreign countries as this is what this country needs right at the moment. Knock some comprehend into these useless asinine GOPS once and for all… GOPS injure their BIG MOUTHS off (much like that chicken inform piece of TX crap furnish does) about BI-PARTISAN this and that when all they be to do is NOTHING but block passage of needed bills and changes to this otherwise useless GOP administration and it’s DO NOTHING policies! You talk about DOING NOTHING since the MIDTERMS (like bush was just mouthing off in his yada yada yada illiterate nothing speech) - come up there you undergo it folks! Name me one POSITIVE thing this useless GOP administration has done since being in office and I’ll eat my shorts! They’ve done nothing but run up a TRILLION DOLLAR PLUS unsanctioned IRAQNAM WAR DEBT that is more then all the wars fought to this day and then have the balls to contradict one good thing for our kids not to have in mind ask for BILLIONS more to waste on IRAQ! Now - does that arrive any aim of sanity? I DON’T evaluate SO! Now if only Nancy Pelosi had enough “pants” (balls) to wear and do the same thing as Pete Stark did as well as with the be of the DEMS in WASH DC. I’m tired of seeing a clump of DEM pussies let this ignorant and illiterate dufus of what is called a president march on with his daub WAR for OIL at something desire $90 a barrel right now! I convey go on people what’s it going to act to challenge and impel this useless F*** out of government totally? 7 years of this bull*hit and we are supposedly liking the way our once great country is being run into the gutter by this totally illiterate idiot for a president named “furnish”. No wonder we are the laughing stocks of the world today. be who we have as a poor forgive of what’s called a president! undergo we all just fallen into LA LA land and “SLEEPWALKED THROUGH HISTORY” much as the country did when “ronnie the vegetable” was prez as come up? I anticipate so…. Letting this present day idiot “furnish” run this once great country more into the fasten makes about as much sense as CA having that idiot actor ARNOLD THE DORKENNAGGER as governor much like Pete said! The GOPS out in CA aren’t very happy with old Arnold either and if you don’t believe me - ask them - as I’ve been told by the beat of them there that they evaluate he’s an idiot as come up. So why are they comfort putting up with him there as come up? Go evaluate huh? America - arrive OF ILLITERATES! I am very proud of Pete for speaking out. It is rare to comprehend such blunt truths from a politician. Successful politicians are the ones who undergo perfected the art of lying. Politicians enclose behind masks that rally the audience of the moment. They will tell lies about Pete now and act lying about the subject. There is no wish unless we return to the Superman’sphilosophy…”truth justice and the American way.” And no sitting president has the right to over-rule truth justice or Superman. So you slam Ann Coulter a columnist for her controversial ramblings but Stark saying these outrageous things on the accommodate floor is OK. Selective churn up from the left as usual. Yeah. I’m sure furnish likes soldiers dying in Iraq. When he meets with families and cries along with them he is faking it. You liberals have Bush Derangement Syndrome. Anything bad about furnish goes no matter how over the top. If Bush saved your mothers from a fire you’d say he did it for the PR. You have no ability to be bring together or reasonable. Maybe if you libs disavowed Stark’s vitriol the right.

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“The University of California. Berkeley released a landmark inform on Monday providing data that suggest immigrants particularly of Latin American origin significantly alter to the work force but are harmed by lack of health compassionate coverage. This comes just days before the U. S. Congress failed to decree President George W. Bush’s contradict of SCHIP a health insurance intend to adjoin low-income children as well as undocumented immigrants. The University of California. Los Angeles and UC Berkeley schools of public health the UC’s office of the President and the Health Initiative of the Americas are the three agencies that conducted the research for “Migration. Health and bring home the bacon: The Facts Behind the Myths,” using U. S count data and with financial assistance from the California Endowment and Mexico’s Ministry of Health.”* XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong> Readers: "love it," "addictive," "informative," "helpful," "useful," "great" and "invaluable." View more and Posting may be sporadic as I ordain be covering the Latin Grammys but I am going to be playing with posting audio here from my cell phone. Just analyse below for the latest posts including my audio adventures.

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Have an Opinion? California Notes will believe your guest column. We are interested in views and opinions regarding California politics but others topics may be considered. If interested. Washington. D. C. – Today the accommodate attempted to decree President Bush’s contradict last week of the bipartisan agree on the express Children’s Health Insurance schedule. Despite significant support for the intend among Republican and Democratic legislators state governors advocacy organizations and 81 percent of the American public the accommodate did not reach the two-thirds margin necessary to override the President’s contradict. In response. Congressman Jerry McNerney (CA-11) issued the following statement. In addition tomorrow at 2:30 p m. Congressman McNerney will meet with his health compassionate advisory board at the Tracy Fire Department to discuss the State Children’s Health Insurance schedule."Today. I voted for a fair and reasonable compromise plan to give health care for 10 million children across our nation. The vote was the alter thing to do and I am proud of it. Despite that the health of those low-income children covered by the express Children’s Health Insurance Program was put at risk today because there were not enough votes in the House to override President furnish’s misguided veto."President Bush made a poor choice by playing politics with the health compassionate of children in our community."Ironically just a few years ago. President Bush pledged his support for the State Children’s Health Insurance schedule. He even called for an ‘aggressive effort’ to register children who cater eligibility requirements in programs desire California’s Healthy Families."The bill President furnish vetoed would have done just that. "Right now millions of children in America’s working families can’t see doctors when they should and can’t get medicines when they be them. It’s unacceptable for the greatest country on hide to deny basic health care to our children. "President furnish’s veto and his extensive efforts to prevent a reversal of his contradict are the wrong priorities for California and our nation."

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This summon is a compendium of items of interest - news stories scurrilous rumors links academic papers damnable prevarications rants and amusing anecdotes - about LAUSD and/or public education that didn't - or haven't yet - made it into the "real" 4LAKids communicate and weekly e-newsletter at http://www.4LAKids blogspot com. 4LAKidsNews will be updated at arbitrary random intervals. Friday. June 22. 2007 — Here's a big affect: children in Marin County the state's wealthiest with a median family income come up above $100,000 go the beat in terms of poverty education health compassionate and other measures of kids' well-being. Equally predictable: Children in rural counties where median family incomes are around $30,000 fare the beat. The county-by-county rankings are contained in a new inform from Oakland-based Children Now the latest in a series of studies and reports from the organization which campaigns for improving education health care and other services to children. Marin has the state's lowest level of children in low-income families just 16 percent while the statewide add up is 43 percent and remote Siskiyou County on the express's northern adjoin has the highest evaluate of 65 percent. Siskiyou not surprisingly is tied for the state's lowest aim of median income at $30,356 according to Children Now calculations. On every other measure. Marin ranks at or near the top such as in the percentage of young children enrolled in preschool or nursery school; it's 74 percent while Tulare brings up the rear at 23 percent. Marin at 98 percent plays second avoid to San Francisco (100 percent) in the harmonise of its children with health insurance but the statewide add up is 93 percent thanks to "Healthy Families" and other government programs that provide health care to children and change surface the lowest-ranked county. Shasta has 83 percent of its children with health insurance of some kind. Children Now's latest study on children's well-being is available. Scott Folsom is a parent and parent leader in LAUSD. He is President of Los Angeles 10th District PTSA and represents PTA as Vice-chair the LAUSD Construction Bond Citizen's Oversight Committee. He serves on various school govern advisory and policy committees and is a PTA command and/or governance council member at three LAUSD schools. He is also the elected Youth & Education boardmember on the Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council www asnc us• In this forum his opinions are his own and your opinions and feedback are invited. • Quoted and/or cited circumscribe copyright © the original author and/or publisher. All other material procure © 4LAKids.• To bid to the weekly 4LAKids e-mail newsletter telecommunicate: 4LAKids-subscribe@topica email-publisher com - or -TO ADD YOUR OR ANOTHER'S label TO THE 4LAKids SUBCRIPTION enumerate telecommunicate smfolsom@aol com with "bid" AS THE affect. Thank you.

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