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How To Achieve Single-Payer In California
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5:42Now PlayingMichael Lighty, Director of Public Policy for National Nurses United, joins Jimmy Dore to discuss how to best get singlepayer passed in California. Watch the full Aggressive Progressives episode here
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Jimmy Dore, Stef Zamorano, & Dave Dayen on this week’s Aggressive Progressives. The trio talk about single-payer healthcare, Dave’s article in The Intercept, and Prop 98. Ron Placone joins and Michael Lighty, Director of Public Policy from the CNA, skypes in to talk about the healthcare bill.
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"Turns out it's easy for a Democratic legislature to pass single-payer under a Republican Governor, but even with a Democrat in office, it’s success is far from guaranteed. So an urgent task for advocates is to convince Gov. Jerry Brown that now is the time.
What's different now? First, no matter what form ACA “repeal and replace” ultimately takes, Californians are not going to let Democrats just blame the GOP when Democrats control all branches of government here. Nor should they. If the ACA was a compromise with national political forces, there’s no reason California should just try to patch it up after it’s dismantled. Nor would it be easy to ask those who currently have health care benefits to fully pay for any loss of coverage they might suffer in the wake of GOP-led health reform. From a policy perspective, the complexity of the ACA’s financing and expansion of coverage can be replaced by the simpler mechanism of single-payer, which achieves greater cost savings and broader patient choice, while retaining comprehensive benefits."*
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