With concern rising that a Republican alternative to Obamacare could fail to adequately cover pre-existing conditions (“Eight billion won’t even begin to cover it,” one Washington insider told THCB late this week) and will likely sharply cut benefits for Medicaid recipients, a number of states are preparing contingency plans. Some are preparing legal challenges. In California, progressives are once again laying the groundwork for a single payer system.
Could it happen? And could California serve as a model for other states?
California, the largest state in the union by population and the world’s sixth-largest economy, has good reason to push public policy in the opposite direction.
