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The California Healthcare Mess - Getting It Right Versus Getting It Done
December 19th, 2007 5:17 pm

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ActLocallySF Gavin Newsom San Francisco healthcareThe Governor and Assembly Speaker have emerged from negotiations with a healthcare plan that needs to be sent back for major reconstructive surgery. The plan has some very good elements – such as preventing insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, a long-overdue expansion of children’s healthcare coverage and, potentially, the creation of the largest purchasing pool in the health insurance market outside of the federal government. But the proposal has major flaws that must be fixed before it has a chance of final approval by California voters. Read the full story on Daily Kos.


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