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Could California’s single-payer proposal reignite debate on health care reform?
Other states will be watching the debate play out in Sacramento.
Fraud and Waste
Single-payer plan is great idea; can California pull it off?
by Michael Hiltzick California, which has shown the determination to go it alone in areas such as environmental protection, scientific research and workers’ rights when its values conflict with policies at the federal level, is moving forward with its most audacious effort yet. That’s a plan to create a universal single-payer healthcare system. Called CalCare, …
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Assembly Health Committee on AB1400 Single-Payer Calcare Passes.
This is the Assembly Health Committee with debate about AB1400 with Ash Kalra presenting the Bill and Ady Barken chiming in about Single-Payer Healthcare. The public comment sections is really interesting and loaded with arguments for and against AB1400. Also an outstanding part is with Assembly woman Aguilar. I learned so much from this and …
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California’s Separate and Unequal Healthcare System and How Sacramento May Only Be Making It Worse.
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 …
Shining a light on murky hospital markups
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 …
California once had mobile hospitals and a ventilator stockpile. But it dismantled them.
A ventilator on display. California built a stockpile of ventilators and other medical equipment in preparation for an emergency, such as a pandemic, but dismantled it years ago.(Mark Lennihan / Associated Press)
Medical Debt Is Crushing Black Americans
Billing tactics are inflicting financial harm on patients—and sometimes health-care companies aren’t even aware of their own practices.
Assemblymember Kalra Talks about AB 1400, the CA Guaranteed Health Care for All Act
This video explains it all
She was billed $809 for a boot for her broken foot. Amazon charges $80
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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Facing Thousands of Dollars in Medical Expense
Christopher Rowland Yesterday at 5:41 p.m. EDT Jamie Azar left a rehab hospital in Tennessee this week with the help of a walker after spending the entire month of August in the ICU and on a ventilator. She had received a shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in mid-July but tested positive for the coronavirus …