On October 2, 2012 the Sacramento Bee reported that Governor Brown vetoed the Senate Bill 961 and Assembly Bill 1461. Those bills were the requirement for California's "Guaranteed Issue" laws that would require health insurance carriers to take every applicant regardless of past and current health conditions. Governor Brown wrote...
"Without the strong foundation that federal law provides, a state-level mandate
on insurers alone could encourage healthy people to wait until they got sick or
injured before purchasing coverage," Brown wrote in his veto message. "This
would lead to skyrocketing premiums, making coverage more unaffordable."
The issue is not dead. The State Senate and Assembly will need to come together and rewrite the laws so that they are more closely tied to the Federal Mandate. Be on the lookout for those new laws with the improved language within the next two months.
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