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

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  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 […]

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CALIFORNIA LOCAL GOV. PASS RESOLUTIONS FOR AB1400 CALCARE

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Sacramento – As the California State Assembly prepares for a health committee hearing next Tuesday to consider the California Guaranteed Healthcare for All Act (AB1400), which would create a single-payer health care coverage system for all California residents, dozens of municipalities and counties across the state representing more than nine million residents have passed resolutions

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California’s Separate and Unequal Healthcare System and How Sacramento May Only Be Making It Worse.

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Article by Paul Y. Song, MD Over the past two years, there have been countless tragic stories about the separate and unequal nature of Medi-Cal (California’s Medicaid system). These reports have highlighted numerous disadvantages, overall difficulties, financial hardships, and outrageous delays that far too many Californians and especially those from communites of color face. From

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Shining a light on murky hospital markups

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By: DAVID LAZARUS Ridiculous, seemingly arbitrary price markups are a defining characteristic of the $4-trillion U.S. healthcare system — and a key reason Americans pay more for treatment than anyone else in the world. But to see price hikes of as much as 675% being imposed in real time, automatically, by a hospital’s computer system

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Save Our Seniors Network Rebuttal to Newsom’s veto of AB 279

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Sobering lessons for the AB 1400 fight can be drawn from the campaign as well as the case made for AB 1400, as currently it is legal for private operators to endanger seniors, particularly oppressed nationality seniors, disproportionately. Save Our Seniors Network (SOSN) is an all-volunteer network of individuals and organizations working to secure the

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She was billed $809 for a boot for her broken foot. Amazon charges $80

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BY DAVID LAZARUSBUSINESS COLUMNIST NOV. 16, 2021 6 AM PT Stephanie Noonan Drachkovitch recently broke her foot while horseback riding. She got treated at a UCLA-affiliated orthopedic facility in Thousand Oaks and has no complaints about the quality of care. “My doctors were fantastic,” Drachkovitch told me. “This isn’t about them.” What this is about,

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Stranded by the pandemic, he had only travel insurance. It left him with a $38,000 bill

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BY ARTHUR ALLEN KAISER HEALTH NEWS NOV. 16, 2021 5 AM PT Duy Hoa Tran, a retired Vietnamese schoolteacher, arrived in Los Angeles in February 2020 to visit his daughter and 2-month-old grandson. Two weeks later, the door closed behind him. To prevent the spread of COVID-19, Vietnam shut its borders. No commercial flights would be allowed

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