state-run 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...

California Legislature Passes Health Insurance Individual Mandate Penalty

June 25, 2019 6:40 amJanuary 16, 2020 12:19 pm

Despite that 93 percent of Californians have health insurance, the California Legislature voted Monday to tax California citizens who do not buy health insurance. This penalty revenue will be used to fund health insurance subsidies to encourage more people to purchase...

Gavin Newsom’s California Budget: Undocumented Immigrants Will Get Health Care Coverage

June 10, 2019 6:12 pmJune 12, 2019 6:15 am

California Democrats reached a budget deal late Sunday agreeing to pay for undocumented immigrants living in the country illegally to have full health benefits, while abandoning the $140 million water tax on residential customers. Undocumented immigrants between the ages of...

California Budget Countdown: Focus on Single Payer, Individual Mandate Tax, Medical Socialism

June 8, 2019 9:52 amJune 10, 2019 12:08 pm

June 15 is the deadline for the passage of the California budget, which must be passed by midnight. As of Friday afternoon, lawmakers who are members of the Conference Committee on the Budget were still waiting around for news of...