California Blue Chair Calls For Universal Health Coverage

NU Online News Service, Dec. 4, 9:13 a.m. – Bruce Bodaken, the chairman of Blue Shield of California, San Francisco, a large nonprofit managed care company, says California ought to set up a universal health coverage program.

The program would require all employers, except for the smallest, to provide health coverage for every employee or contribute an equivalent amount of money for the purchase of health coverage.

The campaign would also require the state to do a better job of getting every resident eligible for health coverage programs for the poor to enroll in those programs, and it would require all California residents who could afford to buy health coverage themselves to buy it.