Health Care Update

UPDATE-

State Senator Sheila Kuehl, chairwoman of the State Senate Health Committee announced that any vote by the committee on the Health Care bill will not happen until Monday. State Senate pro Tem Don Perata has said that he would not load the Committee with yes votes, so, unless that's a lie, he can 1) pressure a Republican to vote for it or 2) ask State Sen. Kuehl (who also opposes the bill) to let the bill go to the Senate floor without a vote.

With a budget deficit of $14.5 billion, and a budget package that calls for a 10% cut in spending, how adding $14 billion in new spending works, doesn't really make much sense to me. But then, I'm not an elected official.