{"id":226409,"date":"2022-02-01T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/?p=226409"},"modified":"2022-02-01T15:52:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T23:52:51","slug":"california-single-payer-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/_es\/politics\/2022\/02\/california-single-payer-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Por qu\u00e9 el pagador \u00fanico muri\u00f3 en la Legislatura de California, nuevamente"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Un proyecto de ley para la atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica de pagador \u00fanico en California ni siquiera obtuvo votaci\u00f3n en la Asamblea estatal despu\u00e9s de que su autor no pudo reunir suficiente apoyo antes de la fecha l\u00edmite del lunes. Los defensores est\u00e1n indignados.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n

Lea este art\u00edculo en <\/em>ingles<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite, or perhaps because of, an aggressive last-minute push by progressive activists ahead of a crucial deadline, legislation to create a government-run universal health care system in California died Monday without coming up for a vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The single-payer measure, Assembly Bill 1400, was the latest attempt to deliver on a longtime priority of Democratic Party faithful to get private insurers and profit margins out of health care. Because it was introduced last year, when it stalled without receiving a single hearing, it needed to pass the Assembly by Monday to continue through the legislative process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even the threat of losing the party\u2019s endorsement in the upcoming election cycle was not enough to persuade the Assembly\u2019s Democratic supermajority to advance the bill for further consideration, effectively killing the effort for another year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After several tense hours Monday afternoon, during which a scramble of meetings took place just off the Assembly floor, Assemblymember Ash Kalra, the San Jose Democrat carrying AB 1400, announced that he would not bring up the measure for a vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kalra declined multiple requests to discuss his decision and whether he would seek another path forward for his proposal. Following the floor session, he waited on a members-only balcony outside the chamber until a group of reporters was told to leave by a sergeant-at-arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don’t believe it would have served the cause of getting single payer done by having the vote and having it go down in flames and further alienating members,\u201d Kalra said on a Zoom call with disappointed supporters later in the evening, in which he shared that he believed the bill, which needed 41 votes to pass, was short by \u201cdouble digits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Assemblymember Ash Kalra discusses his bill that would pay for the universal health care at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Jan. 6, 2022. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Stuck between powerful interests <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The political obstacles to such a radical restructuring of the health care system remain enormous, even in a state as putatively liberal as California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The influential California Chamber of Commerce, which represents business interests in the state, labeled AB 1400 a “job killer\u201d shortly after it was reintroduced in January, indicating it would be a top priority to defeat. Its lobbying campaign \u2014 joined by dozens of insurers<\/a>, industry groups and the associations representing doctors and hospitals \u2014 included social media advertisements and a letter to members<\/a> denouncing the “crippling tax increases” that would be needed to pay for the system. After the bill stalled Monday, the chamber declared it would be ready if ideas from the \u201cdangerous proposal\u201d resurfaced<\/a>.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n