Posted on 02/05/2017 2:16:38 PM PST by Jim Robinson
State Sen. Ed Hernandez, chair of the Senate Health Committee, warns of a major financial hit on millions of Californians if Obamacare is repealed. Claudia Buck The Sacramento Bee
BY DAN WALTERS dwalters@sacbee.com
Eric Bauman, a registered nurse who aspires to become the next chairman of the California Democratic Party, says its time for California to become a healthcare sanctuary by providing universal, state-operated medical coverage.
Citing efforts by a Republican-controlled federal government to repeal Obamacare, Bauman wrote in an op-ed article, we cannot miss the historic opportunity the moment presents us: enacting single-payer healthcare into California. Lets take that step and make California a healthcare sanctuary state.
He thus joins a long-list of California political figures Democrats, mostly, but also two Republican governors who long have advocated universal healthcare, similar to that in Canada and many European countries.
How long?
History records that in 1918, the Legislature, with the support of Republican Gov. Hiram Johnson, proposed a constitutional amendment authorizing the state to provide healthcare to anyone who couldnt afford care on their own.
Nearly 75 percent of the states voters rejected the measure, but variations surfaced during the remainder of the century, including several unsuccessful efforts by Republican Gov. Earl Warren in the 1940s.
The 21st century also has seen periodic efforts, including legislation that voters narrowly overturned in a 2004 referendum and two bills passed by majority Democrats that Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed.
Repealing Obamacare, without a replacement system, would hit California particularly hard because the state vigorously embraced it to reduce one of the nations highest medically uninsured rates.
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They don’t intend to pay for it. They intend to regulate hospitals and doctors into being forced to provide care at government determined rates like Medicaid does, but without the people and insurance companies that pay higher rates to offset the losses.
The problem with the open borders welfare state is not just the influx of those wanting free services, but the outflow of those who they count on to provide those services at slave wages while also supplying the tax money to underpay themselves.
I predict failure on a massive scale.
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And, the once-golden-state can pay for all of this with the excess profits from the Bullet Train.
Especially, since they seem bound and determined to extend it to anyone who comes across the border.
>>Mint their own gold coins ...
Maybe they can pay for it with facebook ‘likes’ or twitter ‘followers’...its the currency of the millennials after all..
I've said before, "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn."
“its time for California to become a healthcare sanctuary by providing universal, state-operated medical coverage.”
And considering how Cali treats illegals what this translates into is providing healthcare for the entire world. How can anyone live there and hope to have any kind of money? “
If for no other reason, President Trump kick he ars Republicans and get Obamacare repealed. Do not wait for so called replacement, it is already there. The Insurance companies are drooling to get started. Bankrupt this illegal State nitwits
They can adopt whatever the hell they like but it will never be viable.
Of course it would require a massive tax increase.
Those of us who already have coverage, will have to fork in to make that system stable.
Watch more business and wage earners flee the state.
That sounds like something Milton Friedman said.
I was fortunate to sit in one of his graduate classes
in microeconomics in the fall of 1972.
If CA taxes income at around 90% of every cent above 100K they just might be able to pull this off.
They tried.
I got out, but prayers for you.
“the state vigorously embraced it to reduce one of the nations highest medically uninsured rates.”
“medically uninsured” another way to say lots of illegals
But Californians have the magic of Hollywood!
They’ll make a movie where works!
Well they continue to try and build a train that will never be used...
and how about giving a guaranteed annual income too while your at it
I remember that, the day Vermonters discovered mathematics and accounting.
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