Posted on 02/17/2017 1:26:50 PM PST by artichokegrower
With the healthcare of millions of Californians at stake if Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act, a state senator is introducing legislation Friday to establish a single-payer system.
Under single-payer, the state would negotiate prices for services and prescriptions with providers, pharmaceutical companies and others.
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No money for crumbling dams but California can be the medical clinic for Mexico and Central America
I was really hoping Vermont would do this.
When it crashed and burned it would serve as a lesson to everyone to NEVER EVER try this again.
In a state of 600,000 people we could have absorbed it.
When California fails it’s taking us all down the drain.
How’s that high speed rail coming along, California?
Good luck with that. More taxes.
Nevermind fixing the dams, they need a moat along the AZ, OR, and NV border and then succeed. Oy-Vey...
No money for crumbling dams but California can be the medical clinic for Mexico and Central America
And hopefully, down the line, Silicon Valley companies like Google and Facebook will be seized by CA to help pay the bills.
Good point. Although I’m not certain President Trump will bail them out without a few conditions attached.
You could sure get to the doctor faster with high speed rail.
Vermont passed single payer in 2011.
By 2014, it was dead in the water.
Reason ? It would bankrupt the state.
Vermont’s budget is 4.9 billion a year.
Single payer was estimated to cost 4.3 billion in it’s first year for cover 626,000 people.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/single-payer-vermont-113711
So, with 38.8 million people, let California do it
Why should doctors and hospital management be the ony ones getting big pharma (ick) kickbacks and pay to play?
Gold in them thar California hills yat to be mined by big gubmint.
Fools and idiots populate Sacramento.
If you liked the Oroville Dam maintenance program, you will love BrownCare.
No. They will invite anyone in the world to partake. Why would
Any medical professional want to work in this state? You can’t be dumber than CA leaders. It’s not possible.
High speed rail won't get you to Texas, maybe to a doctor in Tijuana.
This move ought to suck every illegal and welfare leach in the country to them.
Can’t wait.
You can’t be dumber than CA leaders. It’s not possible.
Tell that to the Entertainment Industry
If you liked the Oroville Dam maintenance program, you will love BrownCare.
Nevermind fixing the dams, they need a moat along the AZ...
We have one already, it is called the Colorado River, we could easily close the 20 bridges connecting Ca to AZ.
I was living in CA the last time they tried this and the estimated premiums for the “rich” was 25K. So in reality it would have been 35K. Most of the so called rich liberals didn’t think they could afford it.
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