Health Reform Supporter Arnold Schwarzenegger Vetoes Multiple Health Reform Bills

[Are_grits_groceries]

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One of those supporters cited is Arnold Schwarzenegger, who over the weekend vetoed multiple bills that would improve and expand access to health insurance in California, including key elements of the national health reform bills:

• He vetoed a raft of bills that would have mandated all insurance companies in California to cover a variety of outcomes, including maternity care (AB 98), cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccine (SB 158), breast feeding counseling (AB 513), mammograms (AB 56), and mental health (AB 244).

• AB 730 would have imposed fines on insurers who rescinded policies from their customers after they tried to use their coverage.

• AB 196 would have required public notice to a community for any hospital closure, or any reduction/elimination of emergency medical services.

Schwarzenegger did manage to sign AB 119, which would ban tiered pricing of health insurance by gender. But he sided with insurance companies on a host of coverage issues, and rejected fines for rescission. The fate of other bills, like a fee on hospitals to access $2 billion in federal funds, and other anti-rescission legislation, have not yet been released; last night at midnight was the deadline for the Governor to sign legislation.

(The reason that 700-odd bills were signed or vetoed in one day is because Arnold took all the bills hostage and threatened to veto everything if he didn’t get what he wanted on a fix to the state water system, but that’s a long and complicated story. Ultimately he dropped the threat and signed or vetoed each bill “on the merits,” so we can be clear that this is what he really believes with regard to health reform.)

http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/12/health-reform-supporter-arnold-schwarzenegger-vetoes-multiple-health-reform-bills/

He's the Terminator alright.

[KamaAina]

1. Ponder this, if you will: Your state of SC has mental health coverage parity.

Thanks to Ahh-nuld (for the third time), we do not.

Boggles the mind at least as much as Iowa being ahead of us on marriage euality. :eyes:

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. Weird.

Way weird.

[KamaAina]

3. Then again, maybe there's a reason for it

You must have heard the description of SC as "too small to be a country, too large to be an insane asylum". :-)

[Are_grits_groceries]

4. It's just about the right size

now to become that asylum.

[flamingdem]

5. Arnold you are very confused

go back to bodybuilding and terminating please.