Guaranteed Healthcare

Here’s an extraordinary image of an extraordinary moment: Steve Maviglio, the Deputy Chief of Staff to Fabian Nunez, the Speaker of the California Assembly, directing Capitol police to arrest an un-insured patient for trying to speak to the media about healthcare reform.  That’s Maviglio on the far right.

Conversations with press like this happen every day, every hour in the Capitol; it’s why the building exists.

But I guess most conversations aren’t on the subject of the insurance industry’s number one priority—which is to pass an “individual mandate” law.  And most conversations don’t happen as a gigantic fake healthcare reform bill seems to be careening to an ugly defeat.

Which is why most conversations don't end with patients being cited for a misdemeanor.

We’ll tell what happened and why, below