A bill to establish single-payer healthcare screeched to an abrupt halt earlier this summer — but that hasn’t blunted its continuing influence on California politics. What would California's proposed single-payer healthcare system mean for me? Pew Research Center found that nationally, 33% of respondents backed a single-payer healthcare system, a 12-percentage-point bump in approval since 2004. People rally in favor of single-payer healthcare in California outside Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon's office in South Gate on June 27. Gavin Newsom, who is backed by the nurses association, has called for universal healthcare but has not yet rolled out a proposal.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 27, 2017 07:07 UTC