Monday, February 19, 2007
Richard Badger has read regarding Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ambitious new plan to give health-care coverage for all Californians, and he isn't buying it. "I'm not for it," said Badger, a Kaiser Permanente member through his employer, Washington Mutual. "It's going to make it like in other countries where it takes five months to see a doctor. The more people you put in to the system, the longer everything will take." The governor's personnel say his health-care plan is not a "single payer system," meaning a centralized, government-run scheme for paying doctors and hospitals. But it does hold elements of that model.
The proposals require each individual to carry health insurance. It calls for health plans and HMOs to use at least 85 percent on patient care. And it calls for the formation of a new state-managed insurance purchasing pool, to be paid into by doctors, hospitals and employers who choose not to present a health-care plan to workers. The pool would be used to help wrap insurance for low-income and uninsured people.
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