Lawmakers resurrect single-payer proposal
California lawmakers resurrected a bill that would create a single-payer health care program for state residents that would defer to an advisory panel the question about how to handle occupational injuries.
A.B. 1400, which on Thursday was referred to the Assembly Health Committee, proposes to create the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Program. The bill would create a nine-member board that would be tasked with developing a proposal for “coverage of health care items and services currently covered under the workers’ compensation system, including whether and how to continue funding those (items) and services under that system and how to incorporate experience rating.”
The language in A.B. 1400 is similar to what was included in a 2017 measure that also would have created a single-payer system. The 2017 bill was shelved after a fiscal analysis projected annual costs of $400 billion.
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