Sadly, for what’s left of California’s free market, it’s not a tumor — as the Liberterminator announces the following:

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday laid out a sweeping proposal to extend health coverage to California’s 6.5 million uninsured residents, promising to share the cost among businesses, individuals, hospitals, doctors, insurers and government.

All Californians will be required to have insurance, and all but the smallest businesses will have to offer it to their workers. Insurers will no longer be allowed to deny coverage to people because of their medical problem

All children, regardless of their immigration status, will be covered through an expansion of the state and federal Healthy Families program.

“My solution is that everyone in California must have health insurance,” Schwarzenegger said, speaking via video link from his office in Santa Monica. “If you can’t afford it, the state will help you buy it. But you must be insured. That is number one.”

The governor, who is recuperating from a broken femur, was supposed to give his address in person to a panel of health care stakeholders. But he said his doctor would not allow him to fly to Sacramento for the occasion.

Many applauded the breadth and ambition of the governor’s plan, which a special team of advisers spent six months developing in secret.

Insurers, seeing the possibility of 4 million to 5 million new customers, praised the proposal, despite the new restrictions it places on them, such as limiting administrative costs.

Socialized medicine in the U.S. is inevitable. Schwarzenegger — who transformed from moderate republican to leftist Democrat — is intent on bringing it to California whether Californians want it or not. And as California goes, so goes Nevada — followed by the rest of the nation.