Last Wednesday Governor Schwarzenegger, in an attempt to argue for his mandated health care plan, said that “health care should be common as car insurance.” Maybe nobody told the Terminator that his state is the second to the worst for percentages of uninsured drivers (Mississippi is the worst). According to the Insurance Research Council (IRC) the estimated percentage of uninsured drivers in California is 25% as of 2004. What is even further hilarious is that the percentage of uninsured drivers is a higher percentage than the purported percentage of California citizens without health insurance! According to the Kaiser Commission and Urban Institute, 19% of Californians don’t have health insurance.
Now, I will admit that there are a large number of different factors between citizens without health care and uninsured drivers. But, anyway you put it Arnie really didn’t help himself with that argument. I am just glad that somebody is looking at the “success” of other implemented mandates and maybe, just maybe they’ll see in the end, to everybody’s surprise (note the sarcasm) J, that they don’t work.
Those are my thoughts for today,
John W. Creath III
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