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Voters cool to gov.'s idea to charge doctors and hospitals From: GIN11153@aol.com Fri Mar 30 01:40:41 2007 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Voters cool to gov.'s idea to charge doctors and hospitals" Previous message: GIN11153@aol.com: "Malpractice Insurance- New Data Confirms That Doctors Were Price-Gouged" Next in thread: art fougner, md: "Re: Voters cool to gov.'s idea to charge doctors and hospitals" Reply: art fougner, md: "Re: Voters cool to gov.'s idea to charge doctors and hospitals" George Skelton Capitol Journal March 29, 2007 Sacramento — Turns out Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger faces a tough sell convincing not only doctors and hospitals they should pay higher taxes to help finance universal healthcare. Californians from other walks of life also think it's a bad idea. "It's a stupid idea," says Claire Fitzmaurice of Irvine, a retired accountant. "Listen, they're not going to be paying. They're just going to add it on. And patients are going to pay the fee." Schwarzenegger spins it as a fee. Tax or fee, it's arguably the most controversial piece of his universal healthcare plan, which still hasn't been honed in detail. The governor has proposed tapping 2% of doctors' revenues and 4% of hospitals' to finance $3.5 billion of his plan's $12-billion government cost. read the rest here: _http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cap29mar29,1,7103312,print.column_ (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cap29mar29,1,7103312,print.column) .. Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Voters cool to gov.'s idea to charge doctors and hospitals" Previous message: GIN11153@aol.com: "Malpractice Insurance- New Data Confirms That Doctors Were Price-Gouged" Next in thread: art fougner, md: "Re: Voters cool to gov.'s idea to charge doctors and hospitals" Reply: art fougner, md: "Re: Voters cool to gov.'s idea to charge doctors and hospitals"

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