Jerry Brown stuck to his skeptical view on matters of broad healthcare reform on Wednesday, dismissing the idea of a universal healthcare system as something akin to a financial impossibility. This is the whole question," Brown said in an interview after wrapping up a day's worth of events and meetings in Washington. But in the wide-ranging discussion with reporters later, he dismissed any notion that it might soon be time to look for a different way to fund healthcare in California — including the idea of a single-payer, universal system. Brown also rejected the idea that it might soon be time to look for ways of finding the billions of dollars his administration thinks would be cut if the GOP healthcare plan is enacted. "The first idea is to do everything to prevent it from happening," he said of the Republican plan.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 22, 2017 23:48 UTC