California Could Adopt a Single Payer System for Healthcare
For many years, one of the leading and most divisive political issues has been health care. Almost everyone agrees that the American health care system is too overpriced with far too little efficacy. While various reform efforts like the Affordable Care Act have had middling results, some governing entities like the state of California are considering a single payer system to rein in costs and grant coverage to all state residents. California attempted to pass a single payer bill in the legislature in 2006 and 2008, but the bills were vetoed by Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who argued that “socialized medicine” was not the solution. Much of the public used this designation to infer that the government would take over provider organizations, when in actuality, the proposed system would merely…