California Healthcare

If a Democrat is elected president, the progressive mass movement should use the opportunity to move beyond their compromised health care plans to push for Medicare For All.

Obama is right to criticize Clinton for putting forward a plan that would penalize the uninsured middle class, unless the cost can be brought down to an affordable level. Hillary's plan is a political loser.

Before the Democratic candidates come to California and talk about their health plans, they might want to look at the demise of Gov. Schwarzenegger's much ballyhooed healthcare bill.

California's plan assures Americans that they don't have to have health insurance if they can't afford the insurance companies' premiums.

My parents back in Pakistan sacrificed everything so that I could begin a life determined by choice. In America, one should not have to choose between health care and basic necessities.

With Schwarzenegger playing Santa, Assembly members passed a bill mislabeled as healthcare reform that will guarantee millions of new customers for the insurance industry, with CA taxpayers paying the bill.

The plan reinforces and expands an insurance-based system -- the source of much of the present crisis -- thereby subverting real reform for years to come.