Governor's health care plan receives a checkup - sacbee.com

Governor's health care plan receives a checkup - sacbee.com: "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's universal health care plan finally received a hearing in the Legislature on Wednesday – 10 months after he unveiled it amid much pomp – and was greeted with bipartisan skepticism. Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, D-Los Angeles, hailed the hearing before the Assembly Health Committee "as an historic opportunity" to "engage Californians in a more positive attitude about the work that we do." But the six-hour hearing, which included a two-hour presentation by Kim Belshé, Schwarzenegger's secretary for health and human services, reaffirmed that both Democrats and Republicans remain opposed to major provisions of the plan. "