To the editor: Just lately, I completed studying by the 10 state propositions on my California ballot. Along with “Sure” and “No,” I desire a third possibility: “Why are you asking me?”
Take Propositions 34 (on spending prescription drug revenues) and 35 (on funding Medi-Cal companies). I work carefully adjoining to healthcare, and I can not perceive them. I can also’t perceive why largely ignorant voters ought to be requested to make choices about high-level healthcare points. We don’t know the small print or ramifications.
Couldn’t the state Legislature — whose members we elect to signify us — cope with these issues? Isn’t asking uninformed people to make complicated coverage choices harmful? Don’t we all know by now that many initiatives generate from deeply company pockets? Haven’t we had sufficient of unintended penalties?
These are the questions I ask myself each time I get my November poll, and that’s why you’ll at all times discover me refusing to signal petitions and largely voting “No.”
Heather Pegas, Los Angeles