A high-profile effort to establish a single-payer healthcare system in California sputtered on Friday when Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) decided to shelve the proposal. Rendon announced late Friday afternoon that the bill, SB 562 by state Sens. “SB 562 was sent to the Assembly woefully incomplete,” Rendon said in a statement. The California Nurses Assn., the bill's sponsors and the state's most vocal advocates for single-payer, blasted Rendon's decision as "cowardly." Updated at 5:38 p.m.: This article was updated to include comments from the California Nurses Assn.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 23, 2017 23:42 UTC