Opinion: Nurses vote ‘no’ on FabianCare
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Remember Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez’s on-the-verge-of-happening healthcare proposal, which he described in these pages late last month? The California Nurses Assocation is having none of it. An excerpt from CNA President Deborah Burger’s Blowback:
AB 8 does nothing to rein in rising insurance premiums -- up 87% nationally this decade -- or rising co-pays, deductibles and other health fees. Which means that costs, already unaffordable for far too many, would continue to spin out of control. The bill fails to limit rising prescription drug costs, especially notable at a time when Schwarzenegger has just eliminated funding for his “voluntary” drug price restraints that were so ballyhooed last year by the governor and the authors of AB 8. It is not universal, as many of the currently uninsured would remain without access to care. It fails to assure uniform, comprehensive benefits, and therefore perpetuates an increasingly multi-tiered health system based on the ability to pay. It fails even to require insurance companies to provide insurance.