Beekeeper

MORE FORCED INSURANCE

As if you need more evidence that the Democrats in the Golden State are aggressively imposing universal health care through incrementalism, I point you to Exhibit A for today.

Exhibit A is Assembly Bill 1698, pushed by Assembly Speaker Fabio Nunez, which would ban health plans from removing dependent children from their insurance rolls until their 26th birthday.

The Sacramento Bee noted that "Núñez's staff is uncertain whether AB 1698 would affect state coffers." In the very next sentence the Bee states that "the state would absorb costs to renew state employee coverage for an unknown number of dependent children, perhaps 10,000 or fewer, who were dropped from family plans recently at age 23." Got that. The people pushing the bill are not sure what the effect on the state coffers will be, but they are certain that the state will be absorbing the costs to renew employee coverage. Are the editors at the Bee asleep at the wheel?

You would think that legislators would be interested in knowing the cost of such a proposal before it moves out of committee. Nope. It was approved by the Health Committee in the Assembly. Hold on to your wallets.