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Calif. Senate approves single-payer health care

SACRAMENTO -- (AP) The California Senate approved creating a government-run health care system for the nation’s most populous state today, ignoring a veto threat from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The proposal by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, authorizes $1 million to establish a commission that would decide how to pay for the system. The funding plan would ultimately have to be approved by voters.

Leno argued the state-run plan would replace the $200 billion Californians already pay for their health care while eliminating insurance companies’ share.

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The following are comments from the readers. In no way do they represent the views of the Hanford Sentinel

Alan G wrote on Jan 28, 2010 3:45 PM:

" We're already $26 billion + in the red and from what I've heard, this could potentially cost California taxpayers about $212 billion + annually. Hmmmm, I wonder where Mark Leno plans to find the money? Californians are already taxed to death AND we're in a recession with unemployment as high as it's ever been in decades. Sin taxes are maxed out and school teachers purchase materials for their classrooms out of their own pockets. You can't squeeze blood from a turnip. "

the oracle wrote on Jan 28, 2010 5:26 PM:

" Lunatics running the asylum.....What, we are about 20 BILLION in the hole already again, inmates being let out early due to budget cuts, etc etc, and THIS is what the politicians come up with?? Something that as the polls show, the majority of Americans do not want?? People, its time to enact strict term limits. 2 terms and your out and you CANNOT run again for some other position, and no retirement, etc. What reality are these people living in?? "

aces928 wrote on Jan 29, 2010 6:26 AM:

" Just like that and another 1 million tax dollars is flushed down the toilet to the sewer of special interests groups as payoff for their vote in the next election. You gotta admire the arrogance of these Democrats. "

Alan G wrote on Jan 29, 2010 12:52 PM:

" This one is right up there with the bill last year to raise the gas tax when gas was at $5.00/gallon. "

RobertD wrote on Jan 30, 2010 9:01 AM:

" The California Teachers Association officially endorses and even co-sponsored the single-payer plan. While the education budget is being dramatically slashed and teachers are being let go or hit with pay cuts, their union supports a plan that will add billions more to our deficit. The "silent majority" in education needs to rise up, vote out the lunatics running CTA and elect people who will actually place education and teachers first...not liberal, socialistic pet projects. "

Alihandero wrote on Jan 30, 2010 4:22 PM:

" MediCal for all...Whoopie! "

Alihandero wrote on Jan 30, 2010 4:25 PM:

" I dare say that this kind of inappropriate untimely goofy legislation would ever be proposed by a Republican in California.

Give them some credit for that, folks. "

Paul wrote on Feb 5, 2010 4:39 PM:

" Well republicans have always said that the states should be the ones deciding their laws and NOT the federal gov't.

Well, CALIFORNIA (a state) wants and HAS APPROVED a "single-payer health care" and the same republicans that SHOUT FOR STATES RIGHTS, NOW DON'T want the state to DECIDE their own laws... maybe because the majority of voters DON'T want republicans...

" Lunatics wanting to run the asylum" well, you are CORRECT oracle. "

Alihandero wrote on Feb 9, 2010 5:19 PM:

" Paul wrote on Feb 5, 2010 4:39 PM:
" Well, CALIFORNIA (a state) wants and HAS APPROVED a "single-payer health care."

Someone please educate this person that "CALIFORNIA (a state)" has not now, as "a state," approved anything of the sort.

Especially when the article's title says it all:
"Calif. Senate approves single-payer health care"

The California Senate is not "a state," thank God. "

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