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
OK, so 4.3b/626K ~ 6800 per person. Let’s assume Cali gets GREAT economies of scale and can get it down to 5000 pp. 38.8 million X 5K = 194b.
California’s budget is about $115b. Only a 79b shortfall, or $2,000 a month for every man, woman and child in California (including the illegals) — or $8K a year for a family of 4.
And that is HC alone and nothing else.
IOW a California single-payer system will more than double the budget.
Good luck with that you arrogant idiots.