Nurses’ Union Leads Push for Health Care Socialism in California

NLPC ^ | June 19, 2017 | Carl Horowitz

[jazusamo]

There are few things quite as expensive as “free health care.” And the nation’s most populous state may be about to find out the hard way. On June 1, the California Senate voted 23-14 in favor of a bill, the Healthy California Act (SB 562), to authorize the state to act as a “single payer” in place of insurance carriers in negotiating prices with doctors, hospitals and other providers. The measure covers all residents regardless of financial ability or immigration status. Annual costs may reach $400 billion – and that’s just for starters. As existing Medicare and Medicare funds will pay for around half of that, new business taxes are the most likely candidate to cover the rest. It’s fitting that this prescription for economic disaster and population replacement is being driven by a union, the California Nurses Association.

National Legal and Policy Center has taken note of the central role played by organized labor in advancing the Left’s long-term goal of socialization of health care costs. Back during 2009-10, unions and their principal federation, the AFL-CIO, vigorously lobbied on behalf of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) legislation then before Congress. Aided by eleventh-hour backroom dealing, they secured passage, conveniently exempting themselves from certain mandates. The Obamacare law, which farms out non-employer health care plans to state-established “exchanges” and imposes costly mandates on individuals and employers alike, wasn’t the preferred route of labor officials. They wanted a Canadian- or British-style system in which a central entity – i.e., the federal government – would establish price structures and ranges of eligible services. But the law was a huge step in that direction. That’s why unions and their allies have blocked every effort by Congress to repeal it while they work for something stronger – like in California.

[longtermmemmory]

for some reason this reminds me of eastern airlines and/or patco.

[cherry]

we have a friend who just moved to Prescott Valley, Arizona...he wanted to move and just picked that area...

[The Westerner]

Bravo!

[Myrddin]

Their proposed 15% employee business tax would double or more and businesses wouldn’t be able to relocate out of state fast enough.

My employer is a multi-state company. I have to record the zipcode where I work when I'm away from my home office in Idaho. It takes as little as a single 5 day trip to get nicked by a CA withholding and need to file. Hopefully they don't try to pull any crap to tax more of my income than was earned on my infrequent visits.

I have some extended family that works for my company. They just sold their house in South San Diego and purchased a home in North Las Vegas. They are thrilled with the move and have shifted residency and added concealed weapons permits.

I made my exit from the Mira Mesa area of San Diego to the Pocatello area of Idaho in Dec 2000. I'm very happy with the move. CA had done nothing but go downhill since then.