single-payer healthcare Archives

The Insurance Lobby is Ruining the California Healthcare System

October 9, 2019 9:39 amOctober 10, 2019 10:13 am

The price of a healthcare plan for a family of four is expected to exceed $30,000. Big changes are on the horizon for California’s healthcare system, and for many, those changes couldn’t come soon enough. Spearheaded by Governor Gavin...

Leaving California: Interviews With Californians Who Moved To Greener Pastures, Part IV

July 26, 2019 8:02 amJuly 27, 2019 7:06 am

Everyone is piling on California these days, and for many valid reasons. California is always ranked as one of the worst states in the country in which to run a business, while many other states are ranked at the top...

Leaving California: Interviews With Californians Who Moved To Greener Pastures, Part III

July 20, 2019 8:05 amJuly 22, 2019 8:54 am

Everyone is piling on California these days, and for many valid reasons. California is always ranked as one of the worst states in the country in which to run a business, while many other states are ranked at the top...

Leaving California: Interviews With Californians Who Moved To Greener Pastures

July 16, 2019 2:04 amSeptember 23, 2019 5:56 am

Everyone is piling on California these days, and for many valid reasons. California is always ranked as one of the worst states in the country in which to run a business, while Texas always ranks as one of the best....

Democrats’ Budget is Making Poverty in California More Tolerable

June 18, 2019 6:55 amJune 18, 2019 6:58 am

You can’t be irrelevant and responsible at the same time “Republicans need to change their product. Californians aren’t buying it,” says the headline on the George Skelton column Monday in the Los Angeles Times. “California voters have not been...

Accusations of Racism in CA Senate Debate Over Medi-Cal Coverage for Illegal Immigrants

May 29, 2019 5:27 pmMay 30, 2019 12:25 pm

California Democrats frequently conflate “legal” and “illegal” immigrants when they debate legislation expanding government services to those in California illegally. When called out on this important distinction in the Senate Wednesday, they reacted with accusations of “racism, bigotry and xenophobia”...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s State of the State Address: Resist Trump, Grow CA Government

February 12, 2019 6:12 pmFebruary 13, 2019 12:27 pm

In his first State of the State speech Tuesday, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he will significantly refashion former Gov. Jerry Brown’s pet projects, including the mismanaged High Speed Rail project, and the Delta Tunnels project will be downsized...