Health care bill passes Legislature, but governor says he'll veto it
Tom Chorneau
San Francisco Chronicle
The state Legislature approved an overhaul of California's health care system Monday, but even before the votes were tallied Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vowed to veto the bill and call lawmakers into a special session after the current session ends this week.
Schwarzenegger said he would reject AB8, by Speaker Fabian Núñez, D-Los Angeles, because it puts too great a financial burden on employers and does not address the needs of 2.8 million of California's estimated 6.8 million uninsured residents. [...]
Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, said the exercise of putting a bill on the governor's desk that faces certain veto can serve as a foundation for debate.
"We have brought to him something that we said we would do and we did," Perata said. "We will put it on his desk and if he vetoes it and if he chooses to bring us back into special session, we will go.
"This is something that we are not giving up on. We want health care reform."
September 11, 2007 at 12:00 AM | Permalink | Blog Reactions
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