Socialized Health Care: Never let it be said that California doesn’t march to the beat of a different drummer. While the rest of the country has had second, third and even fourth thoughts about having a single-payer health care system, the Golden State boldly marches forward into fiscal oblivion.
As the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday, “A sweeping measure that would establish government-run universal health care in California cleared its first legislative hurdle Wednesday as scores of supporters crammed into the Capitol to advocate for a single-payer system.”
Let’s unpack that sentence a bit. It’s true that so-called State Bill 562 is “sweeping.” It’s so sweeping, in fact, that it would likely end the private health insurance business in the state and lead to fiscal bankruptcy. How’s that for sweeping?
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