In his State of the Union address, President Bush made references to the out-of-control costs of health care in this country. He overemphasized the need for reform and pushed his health savings account plan. The latter would fit in to his vision of an “ownership society,” where people spend their health care dollars more wisely if that money is their own. Unfortunately, these ideas are not founded in reality.

The state Assembly’s dominant Democrats, heaping platitude upon buzzword, declared last week that they want to spend much more money on schools, health care and other party priorities, expand Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s infrastructure program to include parks, hospitals and low-income housing and reduce the state’s chronic budget deficit.

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