Thread: California to weigh single-payer, universal health care plan

By Katy Murphy | kmurphy@bayareanewsgroup.com and Tracy Seipel | tseipel@bayareanewsgroup.com |
PUBLISHED: February 17, 2017 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: February 18, 2017 at 9:28 am


SACRAMENTO — In a surprise move made in response to President Donald Trump’s push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, two California lawmakers Friday introduced legislation to replace private medical insurance with a government health care system covering all 38 million Californians - including its undocumented residents.
“We’ve reached this pivotal moment and I thought to myself: ‘Look, now more than ever is the time to talk about universal health care,’” one of Senate Bill 562’s authors, Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, said in an interview Friday.
The Healthy California Act, co-authored by Sen. Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, was submitted just before the deadline for new legislation. It doesn’t yet offer many specifics other than the lawmakers’ intent: to create a so-called single-payer system that would pay for coverage for everyone.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/1...lan-on-friday/

That just means that CA taxpayers can pay for more illegal aliens healthcare. I am sure they are going to love that.

I hope not, if I already know people,who can't afford health insurance.....Soviet Sacramento go to hell....
Pls CA, wake up!