Legislative Republicans Defying Their Own Party on Health Care

A new poll by Kaiser Family Foundation out today shows that Republican voters think health care is a top issue -- just behind the war in Iraq and immigration, while Democrats rate it the second most important issue behind Iraq.
 
On top of that rank-and-file Republicans favor much of what is in the plan that has been proposed by legislative Democrats and opposed by the GOP in Sacramento: expanding health care coverage for the uninsured, reducing health care costs, and improving prescription drug benefits.
 
The survey shows what Democrats have been saying along: the health care system is broken and there's bipartisan support for change. Too bad the head-in-the-sand caucuses of legislative Republicans can't see the writing on the wall. Assembly Republicans, for example, failed to propose any comprehensive health care plan. Nor do they have a single proposal that has been evaluated by the nonpartisan California Healthcare Foundation for the amount of money it will cost, save, or the number of  Californians it will cover.

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