Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez has written a commentary in reaction to my columm last Sunday suggesting that politics will get in the way of major health care reform. The speaker disagrees, and predicts a reform bill will pass the California Legislature ths year.
Here's today's commentary by Nunez.
Here's my column that provoked the speaker to write to us.
if, by reform, you mean, finding a way to get every man woman and child to "tithe" to the insurance industry,..the speaker's got a plan.
It is obvious to me now that a single payer system wiping out insurance companies, Medicare, Medicade and the hundreds of other programs, including worker's comp and the VA is what is needed.
Europe only spends 60% of what we do and achieves comparable or better results. And I'll believe reform when I see it from those guys (surely not statesmen/women) in Sacramento.