Healthcare at the ballot box
Re “As a campaign issue, healthcare is comatose,” Oct. 31
With more than 6 million Californians uninsured, neither candidate for governor has articulated how to achieve better health coverage. We do know that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the universal healthcare bill by state Sen. Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica). This bill would have created one public insurer to cover all Californians with no increase in income taxes. This bill could have saved millions. When we go to the polls next week, we must remember that although our Legislature passed this bill , it was vetoed by Schwarzenegger. This issue will probably come up in the Legislature again next year, so let’s have a governor who will not veto it.
PHYLLIS SOLOMON
Seal Beach
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