Last year, State Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Los Angeles) introduced SB-840, the California Health Insurance Reliability Act, which the State Senate has passed and now awaits debate in the Assembly, having passed the Assembly Health Committee in summer 2005. SB-840 imposes a Canadian-style government healthcare monopoly in California.
Governments need to change how they account for national health spending: The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services accounts for health spending in a largely meaningless way, and these measurements motivate popular demands that Medicaid and other government health plans “control” costs.
