Good question. Why the hell would someone go into debt and spend several years to learn a vocation in health care, such as an x-ray technician or nursing, if the end result is a wage equivalent to an illegal sweeping the floors? That $25/hr is a minimum wage, meaning that all the other wages are going to have to take a significant bump up increase to reach some manner of "fairness." That alone will take the already high medical costs in California and shoot them into the stratosphere. The problem with liberals and commies is that they never think of those pesky impacts on the economy or the fair market value of a wage.

I wonder if those minimum wage increases also apply to contracted service workers or are they only for those employed by the health institution itself. Many hospitals contract with outside companies to provide housekeeping, food, security, and maintenance services.

Like the loss of home owner's insurance due to the cost for carriers, private medical insurance carriers may also decide that the cost of doing business in CA is simply too high and decide to pull out. Bring in single payer government health care - what the socialists have dreamed of all along. So, is this move by CA's officials just socialist incompetence or a deliberate attempt to destroy private health care in CA? Looks like a little of both to me.

It saddens me to sit back and watch the State I called home for almost 4 decades degrade into the commie hell hole that it has become.

Good question. Why the hell would someone go into debt and spend several years to learn a vocation in health care, such as an x-ray technician or nursing, if the end result is a wage equivalent to an illegal sweeping the floors? That $25/hr is a minimum wage, meaning that all the other wages are going to have to take a significant bump up increase to reach some manner of "fairness." That alone will take the medical costs in California that are already high and shoot them into the stratosphere. The problem with liberals and commies is that they never think of those pesky impacts on the economy or the fair market value of a wage.

I wonder if those minimum wage increases also apply to contracted service workers or are they only for those employed by the health institution itself. Many hospitals contract with outside companies to provide housekeeping, food, security, and maintenance services.

Like the loss of home owner's insurance due to the cost for carriers, private medical insurance carriers may also decide that the cost of doing business in CA is simply too high and decide to pull out. Bring in single payer government health care - what the socialists have dreamed of all along. So, is this move by CA's officials just socialist incompetence or a deliberate attempt to destroy private health care in CA? Looks like a little of both to me.

It saddens me to sit back and watch the State I called home for almost 4 decades degrade into the commie hell hole that it has become.

Good question. Why the hell would someone go into debt and spend several years to learn a vocation in health care, such as an x-ray technician or nursing, if the end result is a wage equivalent to an illegal sweeping the floors? That $25/hr is a minimum wage, meaning that all the other wages are going to have to take a significant bump up increase to reach some manner of "fairness." That alone will take the medical costs in California that are already high and shoot them into the stratosphere. The problem with liberals and commies is that they never think of those pesky impacts on the economy or the fair market value of a wage.

Like the loss of home owner's insurance due to the cost for carriers, private medical insurance carriers may also decide that the cost of doing business in CA is simply too high and decide to pull out. Bring in single payer government health care - what the socialists have dreamed of all along. So, is this move by CA's officials just socialist incompetence or a deliberate attempt to destroy private health care in CA? Looks like a little of both to me.

It saddens me to sit back and watch the State I called home for almost 4 decades degrade into the commie hell hole that it has become.