Reply #13: Calling it a "mixed bag" doesn't recognize what's wrong with our health care

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system.

What this does is (instead of figuring out ways to push down the outlandish costs of health care, as single payer does) use taxpayer money to make up the cost that many people can't afford. This is the equivalent, to use a inadvertantly dramatic analogy, of paying the ransom rather than hunting down the kidnapper. It is going to cost our already heavily indebted state a huge amount of money, which will go straight to the private health insurance companies- the only reason Schwarzenegger would do anything like this, with our budget as it is already- without fixing the problem. It merely takes on the increased cost and tags it to future generations to fix.

In other words, it's gutless, shortsighted in its inefficiency AND corrupt.