Heard an informative discussion on future of California medical system on radio. The interviewee is Craig Gotwas, a lawyer who makes his living advising companies on how to cope with government regulations for their employees’ medical insurance. Scroll forward to about the one minute mark to get over the show opening stuff.
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Taxpayers in California now fund 70% of all healthcare (UCLA Study: Taxpayers Foot 70 Percent Of California’s Health Care Tab | California Healthline) via Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, the VA, Tricare, County/Local Health Programs, PPACA Exchanges and state, local and fed gov’t employees. Other states are generally 60% to 65%. So we already have a mostly socialized system
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Gotwas estimates that if the Democrats’ plan is implemented it will add about 2 million people to the government paid medical system in California
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His prediction is that this will lead to even longer wait times for services and reduction in quality of the service.
Craig’s website is well worth reading for fact based information on the state of medical system