Universal Health Care - Another Stupid Idea Out of California

The California governor's plan would require employers with 10 workers or more to buy insurance for their workers or pay a fee of 4 percent of their payroll into a program to help provide coverage for the uninsured.

Schwarzenegger would tax doctors 2 percent of their gross revenue and place a 4 percent tax on hospitals. He campaigned for re-election on an anti-tax platform, but his administration argues that so many more people would have insurance that medical providers would make more money.

The governor also wants to ban insurers from refusing to offer coverage to some individuals because of prior medical conditions. Insurers also would have to spend at least 85 percent of their premium revenues on patient care, a move that would limit the amount companies spend on administrative costs and profits.