The ERISA Red Herring Drowns Again

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Attention conservative bloggers and the single-payer "all-or-nothing" crowd: another court has thrown a wrench into your argument that the Nunez/Perata/Schwarzenegger health care plan may violate fedeal law.
 
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the powerful Ninth U.S. Circuit of Appeals has given a green light to the City of San Francisco's health care plan. (Read the decision here.)
 
Opponents of the Assembly-passed plan had been using this case as a reason the Legislature shouldn't move forward on what would be the largest expansion of health insurance coverage in the United States. So much for that.