June 15, 2006

Governor Starts Talking Health Care

One of the more interesting comments made by Governor Schwarzenegger over the past two weeks has been his interest in, and support for, “health care for every citizen.”

That’s how he described it some two weeks ago when talking to students at Sacramento State. Since then, he’s brought it up a few other times, too. He’s talked about why the issue is important, and why he was opposed to the law-turned-referendum on employers providing more health care coverage, Proposition 72.

This morning on The California Report, I reported on the new discussion and what some of the players in health care policy think it all means. You can hear the audio of that story here.

The bottom line: Schwarzenegger says he hopes to have a proposal by the time the State of the State speech rolls around in January (assuming he’s re-elected)… multiple sources confirm they’ve met with either him or his staff in recent weeks to talk about health care needs… and so far, no one idea seems to have crystallized.