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Single-payer health care tabled
Assemblymember Ash Kalra at a press conference on the opening day of the 2020 legislative session. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
A proposal to create single-payer health care in California has been tabled until next year freeing Newsom from having to take a stance in a heated intra-party debate as he faces an almost-certain recall election. The bill’s lead author, Assemblymember Ash Kalra, said Wednesday that he chose to delay consideration of the bill until January 2022 in response to “many of my colleagues” raising “concerns that the funding mechanism for the bill had not been identified.”