...Most notably, the bill lacked a source of funding, and its estimated cost -- some $400 billion -- was more than twice the state’s annual budget. In effect, the senate had passed single-payer legislation without ensuring a single payer.
Governor Jerry Brown was not impressed. A state-based single-payer system, he said, took one problem -- lack of affordable access to health insurance -- and made it into an “even a bigger problem.”...
...California, already a high-tax state, is in no position to establish a comprehensive single-payer system -- and it’s better to acknowledge reality than to pretend legislative wishes come true......Republicans in Washington, in other words, can still do what Democrats in California did: Just walk away. And don't come back until you have something better. ....
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