Glad I do not live there - better still, do not own a business there. From the Los Angeles Times:
Single-payer healthcare plan advances in California Senate — without a way to pay its $400-billion tab
A proposal to adopt a single-payer healthcare system for California took an initial step forward Thursday when the state Senate approved a bare-bones bill that lacks a method for paying the $400-billion cost of the plan.
Some pesky numbers:
“We don’t have the money to pay for it,” Sen. Tom Berryhill (R-Modesto) said. “If we cut every single program and expense from the state budget and redirected that money to this bill, SB 562, we wouldn’t even cover half of the $400-billion price tag.”
Berryhill also said the private sector is better suited to provide healthcare.
“I absolutely don’t trust the government to run our health system,” he said. “What has the government ever done right?”
This is why single payer has never worked - the free market does work and the bureaucrats need to stop reinventing the wheel and go with this.
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