The governor is calling on California's Congressional
Delegation to vote against federal health care legislation. Or find
a way to lessen the blow of how much it could cost the
state.
Kim Belshé is the Secretary of California's Health and Human
Services Agency. She says under the reform the state would have to
foot some of the bill to cover up to two million more low-income
Californians. And that she says would cost three to four billion
dollars.
"Health reform that simply imposes additional unfunded
costs and mandates on states is not the kind of reform that is
going to succeed and is not the kind of reform that the governor
can support."
Advocates for the uninsured dispute the state's cost estimates
and argue it would give millions of Californians needed health
care.