Page 4 August 1, 2013 TORRANCE TRIBUNE 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 her poll, only 11 percent of doctors believe the law Newly elected Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi requiring the CPUC to provide a report and audience greeted her. Present were businesses, will open as scheduled. Asked how policies introduced Assembly Bill 66 in June to require subsequently fix the issue, but we really should 60 percent of which said they had either frozen purchased from exchanges will impact their the California Public Utilities Commission not need a law asking the CPUC how to do hiring or cut existing employees because of her. business, 78 percent were slightly familiar or (CPUC) to mandate an “electrical corporation its job. If the clerk at 7-Eleven forgot how to Thirty-eight percent said she has caused them not familiar at all. Eighty-one percent were to include in an annual reliability report, make coffee 26 mornings every year…wait, to pull back from planned business growth. either slightly familiar or not familiar with information on system reliability, including he would be fired after two mornings with no Twenty-four percent believe they will drop rates exchange insurers will pay. Doctors were the frequency and duration of interruptions coffee. It is great that there are requirements employee health insurance entirely. Ironically, unaware that under Exchange rules, a patient in services.” This is in response to the power being established, but the truth is it’s absurd the President speaks of economic growth while can go up to three months without paying outages that have occurred in the Rancho Palos that they are needed. Why haven’t heads rolled he touts her as his primary accomplishment. premiums and still not get dropped. Verdes area—where since 2008, an average because of this? So many power outages for In the audience, front and center were unions, 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 led by the Teamsters, who finally understand load, but 70.5 percent say they have no idea year. Under Assemblyman Muratsuchi’s bill, problem with the system--it demonstrates a that the harridan damages unions. Since 62 how the claims process works. the CPUC would develop the report with the high level of incompetence by those responsible percent of all jobs created under this “recovery” The left wing of the audience was occupied expectation for it to use the information within for addressing the issue. Such was the level have been to part-time workers, temporary by Democrats whose support for Obamacare to remedy the problem. of dysfunction that one of our elected officials workers, and the lowest earning segment of 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. the economy, there will be fewer targets for jointly by Republican and Democratic pollsters, response to a regional problem, its outcome It is sad that we have become such an unionization who can afford to pay union dues. 56 percent of the public favors dropping will impact the entire state. It should not be incompetent state that power outages can In a terse and critical letter to Democrats, the Obamacare entirely. too much to ask that the CPUC demonstrate paralyze a region within our borders twice unions have complained of being duped by the Now that the President has chosen to delay at the very least a level of competence and a month since 2008 without any signs of Administration since 40-hour workweeks, the the employer requirement to provide employee transparency that would make California improvement. Is it because our bureaucracy has backbone of the middle class, are disappearing. insurance for one year, the IRS is in turmoil. It residents not have to worry about power become too big for its own good? Probably. Is Seated in the orchestra section were healthcare needs employer information before determining outages. We all expect to come home to watch it maybe that we don’t have the right people insurance companies such as Aetna, United the amount of subsidies the individual will TV, do some online shopping and update our in the right positions to run these entities? Healthcare, and Anthem Blue Cross, all of receive from taxpayers. Since employer reports Facebook status without interruption. I am Very likely. Or maybe those responsible just which have withdrawn from the California are not due until 2015, there is no way to sure that most of us are reasonable enough don’t care. That is also a likely possibility. The Insurance Exchange. The GAO estimates that in determine 2014’s individual subsidy amounts. to understand that even the most efficient and one thing we know for sure is that the CPUC 2011, Medicare and Medicaid paid a whopping In the loge section sat the NBA and NFL, well-operated system can from time to time has failed our neighbors in the RPV area and $50.7 billion in fraudulent payments while the both of which the President pressured to promote have a setback. However, 26 power outages hopefully Assemblyman Muratsuchi’s bill will 10 largest insurance companies earned only Obamacare but both of which declined. annually for the past four years is a major fix the problem so that these power outages $13.7 billion. In other words, the government At the curtain, the band played on, the huckster malfunction. Whatever the issue that is causing do not spread to the rest of the state. I don’t lost nearly four times as much as the largest did her dance and the audience jeered. 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