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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 Governor Arnie announced his dopey health insurance for every cahl-ee-fohn-ya plan yesterday, making it mandatory that ALL Calfornians have health insurance, whether they want it or not, whether they can afford it or not, whether they don't want to pay for it or not. And of course, those who can't afford it will get help if their income is low enough ... which means working Californians will have to pay their full share while unemployed leeches or immigrants or lazy people will get it cheap (or free, not sure how it works exactly.) Oh, and doctors and hospitals get to pay a portion of the cost too! I know the doctors will be thrilled with that! And the hospitals ... is that an additional cost beyond the already budget breaking costs they already pay? Who knows. Oh, and insurance companies will HAVE to insure people ... which is good in theory until you realize that will just make them change their policies to exclude anyone in California altogether, or take their business elsewhere, thereby driving up insurance costs even more. Which means more costs to Californians/tax payers/etc. I for one will refuse to pay a penny toward any mandatory health insurance plan. Z E R O. Health insurance is not a right, it's a convenience. A luxury. And if you choose to not have it, you can pay your own way if you get sick. I know people abuse the ER law thing by fraudulently using emergency room services for non-emergencies and that ERs can't legally refuse to treat people who come to an ER, but they sure as hell don't have to PAY for 'em. I think there should be a new law that if you go to an ER with a non-emergency, and you don't pay for the services you receive there, they will come after you for fraud. Now this will cost money to find/prosecute people at first but once word gets around you can go to JAIL for "cheating the system" my guess is abuse will stop real quick. And overall long term cost will be way less than covering every Calfornian. Another problem is how are they gonna know who is a "Californian"? If they're gonna allow everyone, even illegal aliens to be eligible, what's to stop someone from a neighboring state or country from opening a PO Box in California to establish "residency"? And are they even gonna check that? You could just put down a fake CA address and bam yer in. Checking/verifying addresses/residency will just add more costs. So essentially Arnie is proposing Californians pay for health insurance for the whole damn world. I think it would be hilarious if 20 million "Californians" apply for coverage, bankrupting the system before it even starts. And I hope every legal resident and citizen of California refuses to pay a dime toward any subsidy, or to pay any more than they already pay (if any) toward health insurance. I'll move to another state or go to jail before I'll contribute to being forced into violating federal law by "aiding and abetting" illegal aliens receiving "services." In more cheerful news, Apple, Inc. finally announced the iPhone today after, what, two, three, four years of rumors? And the best part is it's such a bargain! As cheap as a PS3! And Apple gets to sucker people into buying yet another iPod they don't need! Because everyone who wants an iPhone doesn't already have 4 iPods already! It is a pretty cool device, though, smartphone, touch screen, motion sensing, internet browser, pong ... oh no wait not that last part. Damn. Too bad, that woulda sold it for me. My guess though is they're using this as a "test" to see how many people would go the touch screen route ... I can see Apple laptops having the same kinda tech in a few years, touch screens are the most intuitive way to navigate, but they're freakin' expensive right now, even for dinky ones. But alas, Apple likes to be bleeding edge, and is very good at planting seeds of need in the minds of early adopters who then spread the meme to everyone they know. Viral marketing at its best.
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