Guaranteed Healthcare

Here's proof the politicians aren't arguing, they're just pretending to argue.  It's a fake debate they're having with each other.

A Maryland court case made it extremely unlikely that any individual state can require employers to provide healthcare to all employees. Those kind of benefits have to be handled nationally, thanks to the ERISA law.

So what are Arnold and the legislature fighting over?  How much employers be required to "pay" if they don't "play."  That is, how much they be required to pay for employees healthcare if they don't sign up with the mandate insurance.

First of all--there is never going to be a number that makes everyone happy, because no business wants to peel off one-third of its healthcare dollars and give them to insurance industry waste. So this is a fake debate.

Second of all, this law they're arguing about would be thrown out of court in a matter of weeks, so this is a fake debate.

Thirs of all, they're just making up the numbers--so this is a fake debate.  According to the LA Times article:

"Like the governor's plan, the two Democratic proposals require businesses to spend a set amount of their payroll on healthcare or pay into a state-run fund that would negotiate insurance for workers. Schwarzenegger and the Democrats estimate an average premium of $224 a month per person. That figure is a third lower than the average HMO premium in the state and has been greeted skeptically by the nonpartisan legislative analyst's office."

And finally, the insurance companies got us into this mess in the first place.  How can they get us out of it??

It's frustrating that patients are dying, and Sacramento politicians are running around pretending to care.  Aren't they at all embarrassed?