Yeah, no California is a bit of a mess. This action might be rational actually given lack of federal regulation on healthcare, but they could just as well hand

Yeah, no California is a bit of a mess. This action might be rational actually given lack of federal regulation on healthcare, but they could just as well handle it another way, and more comprehensively (i.e. price controls, pricing transparency - yes, it's hard). There is no obvious path forward. I kind of think Vermont has a lot of it sorted but that's also a cultural issue, I mean, Los Angeles and Vermont might as well be on different continents.