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Article: Mandatory health insurance?
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- Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
- Article date:
- January 19, 2007
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Gov. Schwarzenegger has proposed a health plan for Californians
that would include the 6.5 million residents - nearly 19 percent of
the population - that are currently uninsured. He would finance the
$12 billion program without raising taxes, a tricky point, since two-
thirds of the Legislature has to approve new taxes.
The governor's plan goes ever further than the one proposed by
former Gov. Gray Davis, which Schwarzenegger opposed. The new plan
would place "levies" (don't call them taxes) on businesses, doctors
and hospitals, and it would require everyone in the state to
subscribe to some sort of health insurance, much like motorists are
required to carry auto insurance. Low-income ...