AB 554 - Down the Homestretch
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007The next hearing on AB 554 is Thursday August 30th, day after tomorrow. The bill was amended last Thursday (August 23rd) to strike the urgency measure and return the bill to being subject to a simple majority vote rather than a 2/3 majority as it had been for the last 2 months.
We have been unable to learn the reason for this change. Looks like we will just have to do what actuaries don’t do very well - wait patiently to see what the future brings.
I’m a big one for analogies, and I would have to categorize our recent foray into California politics as being analogous to doing a 3,000 piece jigsaw puzzle without the box lid, in the dark, and having the feeling that you’re missing a couple hundred of the pieces but not knowing for sure.
In summary, I am eager to get back to just doing actuarial work - it seems so simple by comparison to politics. And I’m sure there are those who will not be overly upset when they don’t hear my name for a while. It’s been a good dress rehearsal for the fight against socialized medicine - of course, that is the fight that really matters. And let me tell you, we’re gonna take a shellacking if we don’t get better organized.
LF