In Capitol in California, some political battles cover decades

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If we were able to transport ourselves back in time for 50 years and in the California Capitol, we will find a governor who seeks and enjoys great attention from the national political media as he looks more. We would also find a legislative body that deals with conflicts between influential interests with severe financial impacts.

In other words, the dynamics of Capitol in 1975 were almost what they are today.

The resemblance even extends to specific problems. For example, the then government. Jerry Brown was making “peripheral channel“In 1975 to carry water around the Delta of Sacramento-San Hoaquin. Gavin Newpom was seven years old then, but now, as the governor is leading the same campaign tunnel To do the same and face the same opposition.

Other conflicts that have encountered Brown and legislators half a century ago can be found again among the hundreds of bills introduced so far in the legislative session in 2025.

Tuesday, for example, the Senate Committee of the Judiciary has taken up Senate Bill 29A measure that would extend the ability of the survivors of people who have died as a result of medical abuses to bring a claim for “pain, suffering or disfigurement”. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the legislature provided a temporary window for such costumes, as the judiciary was in a pandemic disturbance.

Insurers and other opponents of the measure claim that it violates a compromise from 2022 within the limits of abuse compensation, a deal that at first glance ended a 47-year political battle that began when Brown signed the The Medical Injury Reform Act In 1975

Half a century ago, doctors and other healthcare providers also encountered the “scope of practice”, the authority of state legislation, which defines in detail which medical professionals can carry out which procedures on which are parts of the human body.

The most difficult combat combat orthopedic surgeons against steams over legal right to perform ankle surgery and it rages for years until the latter prevails. Since then, there have been similar conflicts that are too numerous to list, as psychologists against psychiatrists for the right to prescribe medicines, optometries against optics for eye treatment – and even veterinarians against dogs who can legally brush the dog’s teeth.

The current version of this perennial battle for grass is Assembly Bill 876Which would allow the nurse’s anesthesiologists to provide their services more independently-the most recent series of legislative efforts by nurses to strengthen their practices.

Shortly after becoming governor, Brown promised to reform the compensation of workers, a system that provides income and medical care for people related to work and injury. This effort failed, but as one of the last acts of his first government, Brown has signed a bill to increase payments to such workers by about $ 3 billion a year, angry employers to provide coverage.

This has affected a predictable cycle in which the bigger part of the workers’ interest rate groups will work out some systematic repair once every decade and enter it for objections to groups left by the negotiations.

The last such case happened in 2012, when Brown again, the governor again, contracts and signed legislation for re -collection of benefits, but imposes new rules for eligibility and medical care to save enough money to pay for benefits.

Capitol is overdue for a transaction for compensation to another worker and a newly introduced measure, Senate Bill 555It may be the vehicle. This would increase the benefits of workers with partial but permanent disabilities that were limited to $ 1256 a month for the last decade.

The bill will ensure automatic increases in the cost of living and will certainly be ignited by employers-another chapter in what was one of the longest conflicts with a high dollar of Capitol.

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