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We have the worst Political Class ever. Fortunately, they’re concentrated in California

I have long railed against the Administrative State with laws that have been passed by both the Feds and State governments that unaccountable bureaucrats can make regulations that have the force of law without going through the Legislative process.  This is a failure twice over:

  • By bureaucrats that don’t seem to keep both the written and the spirit of the Constitution in mind but are mindful of “heck, why not – who is going to overrule us?”
  • By our elected Legislators who basically are LAZY by doing half-assed jobs and leave the HARD work of hammering out ALL the details to the Executive Branch via “interpreting” their laws

I’ve been covering the push for Universal Healthcare by the Democrat super-majorities in California even as the cost will be TWICE the size of their entire current State budget. But. Get. This.  They are passing the bill to do this – WITHOUT (emphasis mine, reformatted):

No funding plan doesn’t stop lawmakers from moving health care bill along.

A California Senate committee tasked with reviewing bills that spend state money passed a $400 billion universal health care proposal Thursday with no funding plan. Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, introduced SB 562, a sweeping overhaul of the state’s health insurance market. He’s also the chair of Senate Appropriations. The committee passed the bill with a 5-2 vote during a fast-paced suspense file hearing, clearing the way for it to be taken up on the Senate floor next week.

The vote came days after the committee revealed the Legislature’s first cost assessment of the bill, which turns out to be more than the entire state budget for the year beginning July 1. Lara has yet to reveal a detailed plan about how the state would come up with the money to provide health care to the nearly 40 million people living in California. Opponents argued that the funding issue should have been addressed before the committee voted on the measure.

It looks increasingly as though Sacramento is going to go ahead with single payer — and so far, without a care for how to pay or for the likely consequences.

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND DOES THIS?  That you take on something so immense, so complicated, so chockful of risk – who do you think you are, the Socialist government of Venezuela?  Sure, their Constitution says that healthcare is a right – but as with all socialist governments over time that don’t heed the Thatcher Rule (“Sooner or later, you’ll run out of other peoples’ money”), the average Venezuelan has lost 18 lbs of weight BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT CAN’T FEED ITS PEOPLE!  Healthcare?  Get serious – it’s almost worse than Cuba’s second healthcare system “for everyone else”.

When I read the above, I was just aghast at what they are doing – failing to do their jobs to legislate properly (which does include counting the cost). But then again, that’s the Democrat way – it’s only intentions that count.

Certainly not the funding, apparently.

“Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.” It is clear that these are not “the right people to implement Socialism” – but in their hubris, they can’t see outside of their own self-righteous ignorance.  What is clear that they will construct this in such a way that they, the politicians, will never be held accountable for the results and those results will be horrendous.

What will also be horrendous will be the cost, financial and in human terms, this will engender.

This is a classic example of why Californians are voting with their feet.  I predict that soon it will be like the start of the Boston Marathon.

(H/T: Instapundit)

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