Corporate Cash: Why Jerry Brown & California Democratic Leadership Betrayed Citizens On Single-Payer Health Bill
By Theo Anderson In These Times (6/30/17) Last week, the speaker of the California State Assembly, Anthony Rendon, shelved a bill that would have created a single-payer healthcare system. Progressives have looked to New York and California as the best hope for creating a single-payer, universal healthcare system at the state level, and potentially transforming the national debate. Rendon’s decision dealt a serious blow to that hope. It is a particularly painful setback because Democrats, with a supermajority in the legislature, can pass any bill they choose to. We have to understand that, in a system where money determines…