Yet another reason I'm glad my wife and I left California: proposals to "expand" healthcare by forcing employers to buy insurance for everyone. All the laws forcing employers to buy insurance for their employees were bad enough, but now the people who make jobs are going to have to buy insurance for people that don't even work for them... people who have no connection to the insurance purchasers in any way.
A senior California Democrat proposed on Thursday that employers pay to expand health care coverage to all uninsured children in the state, including those of illegal immigrants, as leaders across the political spectrum agreed to focus on universal health care. ...Democratic Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez unveiled his plan to extend health care coverage to uninsured children by requiring employers to pay for insurance, or to have them pay a fee to the state.
Why stop there? Make employers pay salaries to poor children too! This plan is the absolute worst sort of socialism conceivable and will certainly continue the state's determined and relentless slide into insolvency. The only plus side is that pro-illegal-immigration Californians will perhaps begin to appreciate the costs of their favored policies.
I'm glad I won't be there to see it. Have fun!
Oh, look! Another Socialist attempt by none other than....a Democrat. Find an ill-conceived piece of legislation and 100-1 it was introduced by a Democrat.