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[haele]

38. It's not personalities, it's misrepresentation of the reality on the ground.

Single Payer in CA was rightfully put on hold until there was a clearer idea on how to fund it. This Single Payer bill depended on continuing the current way the ACA Medicaid expansion is paid to the states, with some taxes to offset the cost of the additional insurance subscribers.
Since McConnell and Ryan are trying to gut Medicaid - and most likely Medicare, also, if they could - going forward with the bill as it is currently written would be catastrophic and bankrupt the State within three or four years should they succeed.

The funding has to be re-worked to protect Single Payer in California against the vagaries of the vindictive narcissists currently in power. The Randiod elite and the Dominionists want California to *fail* - and it's already been made clear that messing with our attempts to get Single Payer off the ground - something that will affect at least 8% of the state GDP - is part of their strategy.
And people outside the state Democratic Party who don't know (or pretend not to know) that are the ones who are going all "Corrupt Democratic Corporatist Establishment" about it.
This action on Single Payer has less to do with politics than it does to do with establishing the long-term sustainability of Single Payer. There is no magic "power of the people" wish-wand that can make this work. Believe me, I've made craploads of magic Lavender fairy wands - they do little more than make the air smell good while wishing for better things for everyone.
To make Single Payer work will take planning, and sometimes it will take regrouping and starting over.

Heele