The Solution Is Single-Payer
In the face of the monstrosity that is Trumpcare, we must demand Medicare for All.
On June 1, the California State Senate voted 23-14 to pass the Healthy California Act, which would create a universal single-payer health care system for all residents of California, regardless of immigration status.
Two weeks earlier, in New York, the state assembly passed a universal single-payer bill, the New York Health Act, for the third year in a row.
Both bills now face challenges in the other houses of their state legislatures — the California State Assembly and the New York State Senate. But the fact that they have come this far shows that support for single-payer health care is strong and surging.
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