Re: Important issue to California renters on November ballot

[Guest guest]

And to add to what else is about to happen in California, the

governor is trying to get his " Universal " health plan passed which is

not actually universal health care; it's Mandatory health care which

is not the same thing but they would love for everyone to think it

is. If this should pass it would mean that it would be mandatory for

everyone in CA to have health care coverage even if you can't afford

it just like car insurance.

--- In , LiveSimply <quackadillian@...>

wrote:

>

> If you are a renter and live in California and pay below market rate

> because you are living in a rental unit that is covered by a

> rent-stabilization ordinance that ties rent increases to the cost of

> living for housing. You should be aware that there is a proposition

on

> the Calif. ballot for next November that deceptively advertises

itself

> as being against eminent domain, but its real intent is to end rent

> stabilization forever on units that the landlord managed to make

> vacant once.

>

> So I think that the number of people who are forced out of units by

> mold and other forms of harassment will go up dramatically as the

> financial reward will get much higher. This law will change forever

> the character of California communities and force many poor people

to

> move elsewhere, raising the cost of living there, in all

probability,

> as well. This is going to particularly effect people whose salaries

> have not followed the increases in the going rate for housing in the

> past years. There will be nowhere to go. It will also increase the

> cost of food, etc. in cities as businesses will not be able to find

> employees who will work for the wages they are paying currently in

the

> state.

>

[Guest guest]

I am sorry, I should have said that I also thought whatever his name's

healthcare plan was not feasible if it did not include a way for

people who could not afford to buy insurance currently could afford

it. The vast majority of the uninsured are working or retired people.

I think that we should extend Medicare to cover everybody as a start.

If people want insurance, let them buy it and the insurance companies

would need to compete on service. But everybody should be able to get

basic medical care and drug coverage for free or very low cost.

We spend SO much money on the insurance companies now, 1/3 of every

healthcare dollar, that simply cutting out these middlemen would allow

us to 'insure' everybody.

Seriously..