California Senate passes single-payer health care plan

[workinclasszero]

California Senate passes single-payer health care plan
By Katy Murphy | [e-mail] | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: June 1, 2017 at 5:04 pm | UPDATED: June 1, 2017 at 6:35 pm

SACRAMENTO — As a legislative deadline loomed, California senators Thursday — in some cases, reluctantly — voted to pass a $400 billion plan to create a government-run health care system without a way to pay for it.

Senate Bill 562, by Sens. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, and Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, passed 23-14 and will now advance to the Assembly, where it will likely be amended to include taxes. And that would mean the measure would require two-thirds votes in both chambers.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/01/california-senate-passes-single-payer-health-care-plan/

[dalton99a]

1. Leading the way, again

[workinclasszero]

2. Wouldn't be the first time California lead the nation

I guess.

[bresue]

3. Fabulous!!!

It would probably help if for all the federal income tax that California pays, if the federal could give back some of it to help support the insurance.

[LenaBaby61]

4. I LOVE my state ...

[marlakay]

5. If everyone starts moving here

How can we keep enough dems in the other states to vote in 2020?

The only way it will work is if they can get the prices down of drugs and other costs or our taxes will be so high we will all go bellyup. I want universal healthcare but not at current prices that is a recipe for disaster.

Healthcare HMO's like Blue Cross and others have raised prices so much that is why everyone was against being forced to pay for it. We need to be like France where the same MRI is $350 instead of $5000.

There is a reason other countries have universal heathcare, they don't pay a fortune to the medical companies or pharma.