"An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, co-authored by a UCSF physician, proposes one way the state could move toward a single-payer system: Make primary care a public utility, like electricity or clean water, and create a 'common fund' financed by public and private sources that would directly pay primary care doctors to treat patients."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/universal-primary-care-ucsf-22271182.php

#healthcare #insurance #SinglePayer #CommonGood #HealthPolicy #california

Like #CA #GovNewsom, top Dem candidate for state's highest office pulls a #Gavin and quietly backs away from previous pledge to support #SinglePayer #Healthcare in America's most populous state...

#Newsom previously earned a big endorsement from state's powerful #nurses union before betraying promise to put issue on his agenda once elected.

Spokesman for former #HHS secretary under #Biden calls goal "unrealistic"

https://capitalandmain.com/in-california-governors-race-xavier-becerra-walks-away-from-single-payer

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116564823319987788

Anyone who thinks we merely need to get back to the rule of the Democratic Party of #Clinton, or even #Obama, is part of the problem. It's true that that would be better than the uninterrupted continuation of Trumpian fascism. But those Democrats paved the way for Trump. Clinton gave us #NAFTA and the obscene expansion of intellectual property law, among other things. Obama helped the private health insurance industry whittle down #SinglePayer first to the "public option", and then to the #ACA and its "marketplace". And the ever-increasing funneling of the nation's wealth to the #oligarchy continued unabated.

Is it any wonder that so many found fascism alluring, when its perceived only alternative was so useless? Radical change is not a luxury but a necessity; it is the only kind of change that has any chance of enduring — as opposed to setting the stage for the return of fascism.

Any action to make the Democratic Party truly useful will need to be of the nature of a hostile takeover. Its current leadership are in the service of the #oligarchy as much as the fascists are. #JackassParty

@RebelGeek99 And: my understanding is that #Obamacare was a fallback position to avoid the #PublicOption, which in turn had been a fallback position to avoid #SinglePayer — the only thing that anyone should consider acceptable.

Not only the Republicans are our enemies; so are nearly all the Democrats.

Why covid will be with us forever part 45,192:

After two weeks I still tested weakly positive yesterday. I'm now out of covid tests. I have Anthem insurance. They stopped covering at-home tests a couple years ago, as I finally found out after 45 minutes on the phone, dealing with different bots, phone trees and finally, transfers to different actual people (4!).

But, hey! I can go to urgent care and get the test done. But, oops! There's a $30 copay.

I clarified with the last phone guy that my choice was to go to the local pharmacy, pay $18 out of pocket for a single at-home test, or go to an urgent care clinic and pay $30 myself *in addition to Anthem then getting billed hundreds of dollars by the clinic*. Yep, that's their logic.

#HealthInsuranceMustDie #SinglePayer #FreeHealthCareForAll + #GuillotineForAnyPoliticianWhoDoesNotSupportIt

Here is where the top Democrats for California Governor stand on Universal Healthcare:

SWALWELL: Supports a public option

PORTER: Supports single-payer health care

STEYER: Support single-payer health care

BECERRA: Supports single-payer health care

THURMOND: Supports single-payer health care

YEE: Supports single-payer health care

VILLARAIGOSA: Supports a public option

https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/03/california-governor-single-payer-health-care/

#California #universalHealthCare #singlepayer #publicoption