<p class="source">Sacramento Bee (California)</p>
<p>Those who argue that the bill would reduce the costs of the current system need to read the bill closely, since the medical-insurance complex's charges are uncapped and unregulated in the bill. Drug companies, for instance, recently dropped their opposition after the bill's bulk-purchasing mechanism was neutered. Incidentally, the industry then gave $400,000 to Núñez's term-limits extension measure, Proposition 93. Núñez and Schwarzenegger can still provide subsidies to the poor, universal coverage for kids and make the rules of the insurance market fairer. They should reject the insurance industry's demand that the state be converted to a customer delivery system for an inefficient and unregulated private market.</p>
