Posted on 06/24/2017 2:07:12 PM PDT by jazusamo
Progressives furious after California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon shelves bill, citing cost concerns
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders lashed out Saturday at California Democrats for shelving an ambitious single-payer bill, urging them to vote on the health-care legislation estimated to cost $400 billion per year.
California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon announced Friday that Senate Bill 562 had been pulled indefinitely because it “does not address many serious issues,” including “financing, deliver of care, [and] cost controls.”
Mr. Rendon left open the possibility that the measure could be reconsidered, noting that this is the first year of the two-year legislative session, but Mr. Sanders called on him to allow a floor vote.
“I am extremely disappointed that the speaker of the California Assembly is refusing to allow S.B. 562, the single payer health care bill passed by the state Senate, to come to the Assembly floor for a vote,” Mr. Sanders said on Twitter.
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Bernie will have trouble calling anyone after his upcoming legal woes.
I hope so, he’d look good in orange or stripes.
Never mind the cost huh Bernie?
So a senator from a state on the other side of the country rips the state for shelving a bill that would have bankrupted it. What a moron.
Wheat does he care what California does? It’s not his state.
Incredible! The Commiecrats pulled the vote because THEY HAD NO MEANS WITH WHICH TO PAY FOR IT.
Sanders is out of his skull.
I don’t recall Bernie ripping Vermont for bailing on single payer.
He has always been out of his skull!
The only people more so are the Vermonters who keep enabling him by putting him in office!
Bernie will convert to Islam while in prison and take on the name of Kamrema Wheat
Pretty amazing that even the unhinged liberal moonbats in California can do simple math and Sanders can’t?
What a flat-out schmuck. Here is a guy for whom nobody on the planet is so ideologically pure, whose motives are so altruistic and who cares as much as he does about the poor and the downtrodden and screw everyone else as long as he’s got his Lakeside Cabin. This is completely detestable.
You’re absolutely right on both counts.
When I read earlier that a CA Dem actually pulled the bill I thought they have at least one sane one in Sacramento, then I see where Bernie is ripping him. lol
Washington, Oregon and California should just join Canada. They already have single payer.
He’s a holdover Soviet-era useful idiot. He shouldn’t be allowed in ANY position of Trust.
Of course not..., he won't be paying for it! It's only OPM (Other People's Money)
When did Bernie start representing California?
Did he just walk away from Vermont or did they get tired of paying him for doing nothing for them?
They could put Bernie’s wife in charge of it. She’s great at finding funding!
Vermont went the way of California with hopes of a single payer system. After 4 years Vermont decided they couldn’t do it without government money. Sanders’is an idiot.
TELL Loser Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders that this is CA, so SHUT UP!!!!!
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