California Votes To Create A State Health Care Plan
Sacramento California
Just two days after Massachusetts elected a senator who opposes the president’s national health care plan, and one day after the speaker of the House said she did not have the votes to pass a national health care plan, California voted to create a single-payer system. By some estimates this will cost the state an estimated $210 billion in its first year on top of current California debt, which is about 20 billion in the red
The Senate Appropriations Committee released the bill for a vote by the full Senate next week. The legislation had been held over from last year because of the state’s ongoing budget crisis.
“California Democrats are either tone-deaf or delusional,” California Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring said in a statement.
