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> A legislative analysis found that California’s single-payer plan would cost $400 billion to implement, $200 billion of which would be new spending. Critics we
by golemotron 9y ago
> A legislative analysis found that California’s single-payer plan would cost $400 billion to implement, $200 billion of which would be new spending. Critics were quick to point out that this “hefty” price tag is twice the state budget. Furthermore, the bill did not include a funding plan.
Amazing they needed a whole article to say this. How disjointed from reality do people have to be to go through the legislative process with something that fiscally infeasible?
- nerdponx 9y agoProbably a combination of idealism and populism. We're seeing it happen again in Congress with the ACA replacement.
- bpodgursky 9y agoCalifornia legislators have learned that they can appeal to their rabid left wing by passing unrealistic bills, and Jerry Brown will play the adult in the room and veto them. So there's not really any danger to the legislators. It's a game they all understand.