Comments on: The clash over health care

By: Joan from Santa Rosa

Joan from Santa Rosa — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:36:21 +0000

I would like to see the whole bill before I make a decision. Yes for the uninsured legal citizens who can not afford health care and for those who are disabled we need to take care of them. Work on that not on mine I am happy with what I have.

By: Kronick-HCA

Kronick-HCA — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:54:59 +0000

Having been diagnosed with insulin dependent diabetes 90 days after I passed my CPA license, having audited and administer employer health plans and having been unable to buy health insurance for 37 years, I do not see government financing as the hinderance to “free market” medical care that private health insurers have been for close to a century. As a Vietnam veteran I get excellent health care through the VA and I worked in Europe for 6 years where I got excellent healthcare, but the private insurers have only one model of service, capitalizing deceipt.

The PROBLEM is that private insurers are unaccountable, are not aligned with any structural governance or measurement control system, and are not integrated into any systemic interface with medical providers to initiate creative improvements to decades old procedures. The SB 810 legislation rectifies those failures in the existing healthcare conundrum.

By: Spokes

Spokes — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:55:52 +0000

It’s beyond a normal person’s comprehension how such stupidity still reigns in the California legislature. Taxpayers are, once again, the victims of special interests. Voters beware: remember the names of these assholes that voted in favor of this Bill and ensure they are NOT reelected to any public office.

By: Gene Brouillette

Gene Brouillette — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:57:02 +0000

Is there not enough air in Sacramento to allow for clear thinking?

By: StevefromSacto

StevefromSacto — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:36:19 +0000

Just wanted to thank you for checking me out on my Twitter account. Appreciate your taking interest in your new e-pen pal.

You won’t find anything particularly subversive about me. I’m not funded by a left-wing think tank, or by anyone for that matter. I’m just an average joe who thinks there are too many right-wing blogs running around doing damage. The right-wing has succeeded in wiping the dismal record of President Bush off the map and putting the blame for our problems on President Obama. I’m damned if I want to see them do the same thing here in California.

I do not believe that government is the cause of all our problems. I do not believe that the Republican campaign to starve state government so they can “drown it in the bathtub” is the right way to go. I do believe that we need members of both parties to work TOGETHER (what a concept!) to help solve our state’s problems, not hunker down in their ideological bunkers and hurl abuse at the other side.

So when I think you’ve gone over the top in criticizing pensions, or state government, or Democrats, I’ll do my best to respond. Obviously, one guy doing this in my spare time cannot compete with three people doing this full-time for pay (by the way, you don’t indicate your funding source on your blog). But I’ll give it my best shot.

Have a nice weekend.

By: EastBay Larry

EastBay Larry — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:20:19 +0000

It didn’t pass nationally because it was too much, even for many democrats. MA has it and is not pleased with the results. People die in Canada and Britain waiting for a chance to see a doctor. And now Leno thinks this is just want our bankrupt state needs to fix our healthcare problems.

Run that reasoning by me again, I didn’t quite catch it.

By: PRI

PRI — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:36:59 +0000

“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.”

I won’t even charge $1 to tell you how they’ll pay for the system: they’ll gouge the innards out of taxpayers.

— John Seiler