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BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 12:02 PM Jan 2022

Democrats propose California universal healthcare, funded by new income, business taxes


By John Myers Sacramento Bureau Chief
Jan. 6, 2022 12:32 PM PT
SACRAMENTO —

California would enact a sweeping, first-in-the-nation universal healthcare plan under a proposal unveiled Thursday by a group of state Democratic lawmakers, providing health services to every resident and financed by a broad array of new taxes on individuals and businesses.

Though some of the policy details of the ambitious plan were laid out last year, the way to fund it had not been determined. The proposal, now laid out in separate pieces of legislation, faces significant hurdles in the coming months — first at the state Capitol, with opposition from groups representing doctors and insurance companies, and then possibly at the ballot box, as voters would have to approve the taxes in an amendment to the California Constitution.

“There are countless studies that tell us a single-payer healthcare system is the fiscally sound thing to do, the smarter healthcare policy to follow, and a moral imperative if we care about human life,” Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose), the proposal’s author, said Thursday.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-06/democrats-propose-california-universal-healthcare-funded-by-new-income-and-business-taxes


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Democrats propose California universal healthcare, funded by new income, business taxes (Original Post) BeckyDem Jan 2022 OP
Californiia has been working on a plan for years, the for profit only health care mafia spends big ShazamIam Jan 2022 #1
Yes and imo, once passed, it would make it harder for the party to not push for the nation. BeckyDem Jan 2022 #2
I agree, I think once or twice the idea of WA, OR and CA doing a universal together but the ShazamIam Jan 2022 #3
Get Businesses involved NOW! Grins Jan 2022 #4
Agree 100%. BeckyDem Jan 2022 #5

ShazamIam

(2,559 posts)
1. Californiia has been working on a plan for years, the for profit only health care mafia spends big
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 12:20 PM
Jan 2022

to prevent it, of course.

What is best about it is it will free employees from bad corporate employee plans and those huge out of pocket expenses.

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
2. Yes and imo, once passed, it would make it harder for the party to not push for the nation.
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 12:29 PM
Jan 2022

Win, win.

ShazamIam

(2,559 posts)
3. I agree, I think once or twice the idea of WA, OR and CA doing a universal together but the
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 12:37 PM
Jan 2022

current political chaos prevents that, All three states have very noisy conservative minorities who do what the for profit health care blockers tell them to do with their scary propaganda.

Grins

(7,134 posts)
4. Get Businesses involved NOW!
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 03:48 PM
Jan 2022

Get them behind it and it will be hard to block. And the message to businesses is:

“You will no longer be responsible for providing health care for your employers!”

We will do that for you!

- Think of the money you will save by not having to do that!
- Think of where you could better spend that money to improve your businesses!
- Think how happy Wall Street/stockholders will be with that expense gone and in company coffers!

This is not a battle, it is a long campaign akin to war and you have to sack-up early. Who will lead that PR job I have no clue, but it has to start now.
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