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Schwarzenegger: Senate missed 'golden opportunity' on health care
By Andy Furillo - afurillo@sacbee.com
Last Updated 5:59 pm PST Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said today he is "as determined as ever" to push for a California health care plan, despite the death of his plan Monday in the state Senate.
"Just because the Senate has missed this golden opportunity and did not pass our health care reform doesn't mean we should walk away from reforming our broken health care system," Schwarzenegger said at a Sacramento Press Club luncheon.
Schwarzenegger's $14.9 billion plan would have covered 3.7 million of the state's 5.1 million uninsured people. It failed in the Senate Health Committee, getting only one vote from the 11-member committee.
In response to a question, the governor suggested that he would not be interested in an incremental approach to health care, saying, "normally, that's what we would do, but in health care, we have found that it doesn't work."
He said "the whole thing is so interconnected," that even if he wanted to insure children alone, the plan would stumble on a possible funding mechanism.
"When you do it in fragmented ways and piecemeal it," Schwarzenegger said, "special interests" are more prone to lobby legislators "to change this one thing that will benefit me and no one else."
Also during the speech, Schwarzenegger said in response to a question that he will oppose Proposition 92, the measure to reduce fees for community college students. He said the measure would create another locked-in spending formula that would take flexibility away from budget writers.
Listen to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's comments here.
Read more in Wednesday's Bee.
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