California Health Care Reform—An Individual Mandate is Nowhere Near as Important as Affordable Health Insurance

California is entering the final weeks of a major effort to reform the state’s health insurance system.Good for them and in particular good for Governor Schwarzenegger who is willing to tackle this most prickly of domestic policy issues!The Governor and the legislature will need to get a deal done by the end of September if it is going to happen in this session—or maybe for a long time to come.As