California lawmakers introduce single-payer health care plan today
Share this: | UPDATED: February 18, 2017 at 3:00 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.Read full article from California lawmakers introduce single-payer health care plan today
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