California seems finally poised to eliminate all healthcare insurance systems to be replace by… the state’s bureaucratic overlords:

“The Healthy California Act, co-authored by Sen. Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, was submitted just before the deadline for new legislation. It doesn’t yet offer many specifics other than the lawmakers’ intent: to create a so-called single-payer system that would pay for coverage for everyone. “Proponents argue that single-payer systems make health care more affordable and efficient because they eliminate the need for reams of paperwork, but opponents say they raise taxpayer costs and give government too much power.”

Because California bureaucracy is known for eschewing paperwork and regulations…

“Anna Johnson, whose school-age daughter has a chronic heart condition, put her feelings about insurers more bluntly: “‘Cut them out. They’re not good at it. They cause families like ours headaches. Just cut them out.'”

And the state government isn’t???

There is a reason that companies and individuals who can escape California, are.

The arguments for the measure are, at best, pie-in-the-sky:

Every California resident has one plan and more choice.

No more plan-switching or guesswork when insurance rates or plans change.

You pick your doctor, not health insurers

Clinicians make decisions about care, not computers

By pooling health care funds in a publicly-run fund we get the bargaining power of the seventh largest economy.

We cut out insurance company waste and duplication

No more out of control co-pays and high deductibles

Public oversight on costs and care, not decisions made in secret

Managing prescription drug costs

All of these claims have been readily smacked down:

California is sooo DOOMED.

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