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Legislative to Hold Special Session To Deal With Water, Health Care |
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Tuesday, 18 September 2007 |
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This week Governor Schwarzenegger’s special
sessions on Healthcare and the California
water situation will be held in Sacramento. After over a year of gridlock the special sessions will be a final
effort to reach deals between the Governor and various other political entities
on health care and water issues.
As far as health care goes, the governor and the
Democrats can't agree how much to charge employers to fund an expansion of
insurance to cover uninsured workers. The state needs billions of dollars to
cover the 4.9 million Californians without insurance, because many residents
will need subsidies to cover the high cost of health insurance. Voters will likely
decide the issue with a measure on the November 2008 ballot. Also, considered a
major issue facing the state is the fate of the ecologically troubled
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which supplies two-thirds of the state's water
for drinking and agriculture. Republicans say new dams should be built, but
environmentalists say those dams would change the natural flow of rivers and
kill endangered fish species.
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