Page 4 August 1, 2013 One Man’s Opinion Another Man’s Opinion By Gerry Chong With only two months before Obamacare is Keeping the Lights on Benefits Everyoneto be implemented, doctors are nearly cluelessThe grossly painted harridan, oversold so many times before, made her entry from about how the law will affect them. In a CNBC By Cristian Vasquez Thank you, Assemblyman Muratsuchi for stage left--ignoring the disdain with which poll, only 11 percent of doctors believe the law Newly elected Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi requiring the CPUC to provide a report and her audience greeted her. Present were will open as scheduled. Asked how policies introduced Assembly Bill 66 in June to require subsequently fix the issue, but we really should businesses, 60 percent of which said they had purchased from exchanges will impact their the California Public Utilities Commission not need a law asking the CPUC how to do either frozen hiring or cut existing employees business, 78 percent were slightly familiar or (CPUC) to mandate an “electrical corporation its job. If the clerk at 7-Eleven forgot how to because of her. Thirty-eight percent said she not familiar at all. Eighty-one percent were to include in an annual reliability report, make coffee 26 mornings every year…wait, has caused them to pull back from planned either slightly familiar or not familiar with information on system reliability, including he would be fired after two mornings with no business growth. Twenty-four percent believe rates exchange insurers will pay. Doctors the frequency and duration of interruptions coffee. It is great that there are requirements they will drop employee health insurance were unaware that under Exchange rules, a in services.” This is in response to the power being established, but the truth is it’s absurd entirely. Ironically, the President speaks of patient can go up to three months without outages that have occurred in the Rancho Palos that they are needed. Why haven’t heads rolled economic growth while he touts her as his paying premiums and still not get dropped. Verdes area—where since 2008, an average because of this? So many power outages for primary accomplishment. Doctors know they will see a greater work of 26 power outages have been reported a such a long time indicate more than just a In the audience, front and center were load, but 70.5 percent say they have no idea year. Under Assemblyman Muratsuchi’s bill, problem with the system--it demonstrates a unions, led by the Teamsters, who finally how the claims process works. the CPUC would develop the report with the high level of incompetence by those responsible understand that the harridan damages unions. The left wing of the audience was occupied expectation for it to use the information within for addressing the issue. Such was the level Since 62 percent of all jobs created under this by Democrats whose support for Obamacare to remedy the problem. of dysfunction that one of our elected officials “recovery” have been to part-time workers, has fallen by 20 percent. In a poll conducted While the legislation introduced was in had to remind the CPUC how to do its job. temporary workers, and the lowest earning jointly by Republican and Democratic pollsters, response to a regional problem, its outcome It is sad that we have become such an segment of the economy, there will be fewer 56 percent of the public favors dropping will impact the entire state. It should not be incompetent state that power outages can targets for unionization who can afford to Obamacare entirely. too much to ask that the CPUC demonstrate paralyze a region within our borders twice pay union dues. In a terse and critical letter Now that the President has chosen to at the very least a level of competence and a month since 2008 without any signs of to Democrats, the unions have complained delay the employer requirement to provide transparency that would make California improvement. Is it because our bureaucracy has of being duped by the Administration since employee insurance for one year, the IRS is residents not have to worry about power become too big for its own good? Probably. Is 40-hour workweeks, the backbone of the in turmoil. It needs employer information outages. We all expect to come home to watch it maybe that we don’t have the right people middle class, are disappearing. before determining the amount of subsidies TV, do some online shopping and update our in the right positions to run these entities? Seated in the orchestra section were the individual will receive from taxpayers. Facebook status without interruption. I am Very likely. Or maybe those responsible just healthcare insurance companies such as Since employer reports are not due until sure that most of us are reasonable enough don’t care. That is also a likely possibility. The Aetna, United Healthcare, and Anthem Blue 2015, there is no way to determine 2014’s to understand that even the most efficient and one thing we know for sure is that the CPUC Cross, all of which have withdrawn from individual subsidy amounts. well-operated system can from time to time has failed our neighbors in the RPV area and the California Insurance Exchange. The In the loge section sat the NBA and have a setback. However, 26 power outages hopefully Assemblyman Muratsuchi’s bill will GAO estimates that in 2011, Medicare and NFL, both of which the President pressured annually for the past four years is a major fix the problem so that these power outages Medicaid paid a whopping $50.7 billion in to promote Obamacare but both of which malfunction. Whatever the issue that is causing do not spread to the rest of the state. 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