by Maddog » Tue Jan 11, 2022 2:36 am
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 businesses.
Though some of the policy details of the ambitious plan were laid out last year, the way to fund it had not been determined. The proposal, now laid out in separate pieces of legislation, faces significant hurdles in the coming months — first at the state Capitol, with opposition from groups representing doctors and insurance companies, and then possibly at the ballot box, as voters would have to approve the taxes in an amendment to the California
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... ness-taxesMore power to them. They are more populated than Canada, Australia and most countries in Europe. There has never been anything stopping them from doing this.
I like the idea of 50 different laboratories conducting their own constitutionally protected experiments.
[quote]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 businesses.[/quote]
[quote]Though some of the policy details of the ambitious plan were laid out last year, the way to fund it had not been determined. The proposal, now laid out in separate pieces of legislation, faces significant hurdles in the coming months — first at the state Capitol, with opposition from groups representing doctors and insurance companies, and then possibly at the ballot box, as voters would have to approve the taxes in an amendment to the California [/quote]
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-06/democrats-propose-california-universal-healthcare-funded-by-new-income-and-business-taxes
More power to them. They are more populated than Canada, Australia and most countries in Europe. There has never been anything stopping them from doing this.
I like the idea of 50 different laboratories conducting their own constitutionally protected experiments.
