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> Enter SB 562, California~s effort in having a single payer health care
system.
> Co-written
> by Senators Lara and Atkins it is called the ~Healthy California Act~, where
> the authors
> strive to improve access to health care. I agree that something should be
done
> when
> insurance premiums are approaching almost 10 thousand dollars for a family.
> However,
> the bad point of the bill is no private option.

People don't believe that you cannot have socialized medicine if you offer a
private option.  I was told that years ago but did not believe it.  As I have
gotten older, I do.  I think that is what has happened with ACA, sort of,
except that the young folks they expected to get on it to keep it afloat took
the "option" of no care.  Meanwhile, those who could afford private (and who
were likely more-healthy) did that.

Without forcing everyone onto the same system (no private option), you cannot
force the healthy and wealthy to subsidize the rest.  Taxes would be too high
to force them to pay for it that way, so you have to get them on the same
system as the rest.

Those of us that would want choice will never get it again if they ever go
that route.

Mike

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