Opinion: California’s Failure Shows Need for Health Reform
Since a failed effort at health reform in California in 2007, group health insurance premiums have risen 11% and one million state residents have lost their coverage, which shows that "the existing system is not really a system at all, doesn't work and is getting worse," writes Ventura County Star state bureau chief Timm Herdt. He continues, "Those two developments alone ought to be enough to cause any mortal to demand that Congress not blow this latest opportunity" for health reform.
- "Been There, Didn't Do That" (Herdt, Ventura County Star, 8/19).