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WELLBEING: Healthcare | August 31, 1989


THE ADMINISTRATION OF

GOVERNOR PETE WILSON

THWARTING THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IN

PROPOSITIONS 65, 99, & 103

A Published Letter to Los Angeles Times

A majority of Californians voted for Proposition 103, for relief from high auto insurance rates. However, the insurance commissioner is exempting major insurers, at least until the completion of a proposed 10-year study of what Voter Revolt's leaders have termed "cooked books". The commissioner and many state legislators suggest a "no-fault" alternative, which, however, the majority voted down.

A majority of Californians voted for Proposition 99, taxing our tobacco purchases specifically to provide badly needed funds for our state's failing system of trauma-care centers. Although the tax has been raised on cigarettes, the Governor reshuffled the budget with the result that our hospital systems receive little or none of the increased revenue. The sick, injured, and dying are shuffled from one emergency room to another all around town.

A majority of Californians voted for Proposition 65, for controlling our exposure to toxic chemicals. However, the Governor exempted all chemicals but those found carcinogenic in tests on humans, and labeling on individual products, as required by that law, went unenforced. We are told to call "hot lines" now found to be inadequate.

I love our country, but I understand why most of our citizens do not vote.

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