NEXT UP: CA. It's getting a bit hard to keep track of all the universal health care proposals swirling around right now, but it'll be worth watching what Arnold Schwarzenegger announces on January 9th. He's promised to make reform his top priority in the coming year, and he has every incentive to do so: Being the guy who fixed California's health care system and possibly catalyzed the country's switch to UHC is enough to enduringly erase all doubts about the celebrity governor and restore the national profile that got tarnished during his string of 2005 defeats. Of course, Schwarzenegger won't be pursuing this alone. After Massachusetts produced their plan and Mitt Romney received a firestorm of positive press, other governors are eyeing the issue as a way to make their names national, too. So Arnold will want to move quick. How you create universal health care without raising taxes, which he's promised not to do, puzzles me, though. I assume it involves a rocket launcher, or possibly a robot soldier from the future. --Ezra Klein
