Arnold has decided that the cost of living in California isn't quite high enough already:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled a massive overhaul of California's health care system today that, if approved by the Legislature, would mandate coverage from most employers and require everyone in the state to have insurance. Nearly 20% of Californians - about 6.5 million people - don't have health insurance, so the governor also proposes to cover them, including children from families in the state illegally....According to the Times, Schwarzenegger's plan would:• Require employers with 10 workers or more to buy insurance for their workers or pay a fee of 4% of their payroll into a program to help provide coverage for the uninsured.• Require every Californian to have health insurance. "If you can't afford it, the state will help you buy it," he said, "but you must be insured."• Tax doctors 2% of their gross revenue and place a 4% tax on hospitals. • Require insurers to spend at least 85% of their premium revenues on patient care, a move that would limit the amount companies spend on administrative costs and profits.• Increase payments to doctors and hospitals through Medi-Cal by $4 billion. He did not say where the money would come from.• Cover all Californian children, including ones in the state illegally by expanding the Healthy Families program, which provides insurance to children whose parents make less than three times the poverty level. That works out to about $60,000 for a family of four.• Ban insurers from refusing to offer coverage to some individuals because of their prior medical conditions.
All I can say is... thank God that man legally can't become President.
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