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Well, Ah-Nold is getting ready to screw California voters once again. Just as he vetoed single-payer last year, Arnold is showing his true colors again as he prepares to veto the latest comprehensive health care reform passed by the California legislature

Here’s some detailed information from the AFL-CIO blog:

The bill addresses several parts of California’s struggling health care system—including expanding coverage to millions of residents and requiring employers and the government to join workers in paying for care.

The legislation requires employers to spend 7.5 percent of their payroll on health care. An employer that does not provide health care coverage for workers is required to put that same 7.5 percent of payroll into a state coverage purchasing pool.

The bill also provides subsidies for low- and moderate-income families to purchase health insurance and limits premiums and out-of-pocket costs for workers and their families. In addition, it requires insurance companies to provide coverage to all individuals regardless of pre-existing medical conditions, eliminating the practice of “cherry-picking” the healthiest pool of workers to insure.

Proponents estimate the bill will help some 3 million uninsured Californians to obtain coverage. About 6.7 million people in the state lack health coverage.

The California Labor Federation backs the bill, calling it “meaningful health care reform.” Says Art Pulaski, executive secretary treasurer:

This legislation will protect working families from excessive health care costs…and helps even the competitive playing field for responsible employers that already provide health care coverage.

While A.B. 8 won broad support from many groups, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) says it doesn’t go far enough and called for more extensive reform.

Health care reform must end “insurance industry profiteering,” CNA/NNOC President Deborah Burger says, adding: A flawed approach failing to solve the fundamental problems of our health care system is not reform. Our patients and our families need guaranteed health care.

Schwarzenegger has pledged to veto the bill because he says it places an unfair burden on employers. He is expected to call for a special legislative session to deal with health care and to offer his own plan, which would shift more costs to workers and away from employers.

Ah-Nold, the governor who makes sure that his very own dialysis machine is nearby to take care of him if need be, shows his true colors. Like EVERY OTHER REPUBLICAN, Ah-nold is bought off by Billy The Pimp Tauzin’s PhARMachine! But, don’t worry, Ah-Nold has his own secret plan to bring health care to the masses, a plan no doubt formulated by Billy the Pimp. Yes, Arnold wants health insurance to be mandated, EVERYONE in California will be required to buy health inurance. Arnold says this is the solution. Someon should remind the old steroid sniffer that mandating insurance doesn’t work, since California already mandates that every driver carry autoinsurance, yet surveys indicate that 25% of California drivers don’t have the mandatory insurance because they cannot afford it! I sure hope Oprah and Jay Leno sleep well at night knowing that their support of Governor Sock In a Jock has denied million.

You can read more at the AFL-CIO’s blog, you can link to.