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The bill does not include detailed language about how the state would come up with hundreds of billions of dollars to pay for health care coverage for nearly 40
by ams6110 9y ago
The bill does not include detailed language about how the state would come up with hundreds of billions of dollars to pay for health care coverage for nearly 40 million residents.
Perhaps they expect to go bankrupt and let the rest of the country bail them out?
- digitalzombie 9y agoYou mean the red states that California have been subsidizing to help us out?
- dreamthtwasrome 9y agoCalifornia is indeed a profit-center in the United $tates.
- setpatchaddress 9y agoTurnabout is fair play.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Perhaps they expect to go bankrupt and let the rest of the country bail them out? No, like most states (and unlike the federal government) California has a Constitutional requirement for a balanced operating budget with limited exceptions, and so (even if authorized by legislation) a funding mechanism would have to be passed for this to actually be implemented. What they expect is that the Assembly will amend and adopt a funding mechanism if it passes the bill (which will definitely send the bill back to the Senate and almost certainly require either a 2/3 vote or a referral to the electorate, possibly both, fot a couple of reasons). This is a step toward a real single payer law, but it is not one.