“I am someone who does not give up,” Schwarzenegger said. “Especially when there is a problem as big and as serious as health care that needs to be fixed. One setback is just that — a setback. I still believe comprehensive health care reform is needed in California. We will keep moving forward. I can promise you that.”

[From Schwarzenegger's Health Care Plan Rejected - News Story - KNTV | San Francisco]

What is so “comprehensive” about a plan that simply requires everyone to have health insurance? Comprehensive health care reform should include tort reform and reforms aimed at reducing the cost of health care, not just requiring everyone to be able to pay. Actually, the notion that the state wouldn’t end up forking over billions of taxpayer dollars to fund this program was also fantasy, and why Democrats and Republicans alike rejected it.