Despite hitting Gov. Schwarzenegger's veto last year, state Sen. Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) re-introduced SB-840, her bill to impose government monopoly health care in California, in February.  Yesterday, it passed the Senate, 23-15, with only one Democrat, Senator Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana), going offside.  (When this monstrosity first came around, PRI published my analysis of its consequences as Deadly Solution.) Speaker Nuñez is a sponsor in the Assembly.

If these fellows really want government monopoly, single payer, health care, why have they sidled up to the governor with plans that purport to allow some (heavily regulated) private competition?

Likely, it's because they know that any plan that they can get the governor to sign will result in higher costs, more regulation, more confusion & frustration among the population, and an erosion of the people's will to resist a complete government take-over of health care once Gov. Schwarzenegger is gone and the Dems have their own man in the executive office.