California single-payer comes into focus

chromium said:

Yes and any who avoid preventative treatment, whether uninsured or too poor for deductibles, may end up hospitalized, which drives up the cost greatly. I gave only one example with diabetes. There are many chronic conditions that fall in this category, some costing the entire deductible just for one procedure

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SACRAMENTO — A proposal to bring universal health care to California — replacing the private insurance market with a government-run single-payer plan — was abruptly put on hold Friday by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, all but ensuring the nationally touted measure will not pass the Legislature this year.

Earlier this month, the state Senate voted to pass a $400 billion plan sponsored by the California Nurses Association, sending it to the Assembly. But the measure had few details — including how the state would raise the money to pay for it.

Rendon said he supported the concept of single-payer health care but called the bill “woefully incomplete.”

“Even senators who voted for SB 562 noted there are potentially fatal flaws in the bill,” he said in a statement issued late Friday afternoon, “including the fact it does not address many serious issues, such as financing, delivery of care, cost controls or the realities of needed action by the Trump administration and voters to make SB 562 a genuine piece of legislation.

“In light of this, I have decided SB 562 will remain in the Assembly Rules Committee until further notice.”

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Greenbeard said:

Update: this isn't happening.

Single-payer health care put on hold in California as leader calls bill ‘woefully incomplete’


Rendon called the Senate's bill "a statement of values" rather than a real policy. Which is fair, though one could argue that his legislative chamber has the chance to do something about that.

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