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Members of the California Nurses Association and supporters rally at the state Capitol calling for a single-payer health plan on June 28, 2017, in Sacramento. When running for governor in 2018, Gavin Newsom vowed to implement single-payer health care and the pressure is mounting to make good on that promise. (Photo by Rich Pedroncelli/AP, via CalMatters)
Along with a pandemic, a recession, closed schools, ongoing budget negotiations and a likely recall campaign coming later this year, Gov. Gavin Newsom now has one more political problem to deal with: How to keep or break one of his biggest campaign promises.
When running for governor in 2018, Newsom vowed to replace an “inefficient and wasteful” patchwork of private insurance companies and programs with a single, state-funded health plan for everyone. “I don’t know how to do it, because it’s never been done. But I believe it can be done. And if any state can prove it, we can,” he told CalMatters then. �
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our breaking news tonight, the sub surface search for flight 370 has begun. joining me now to explain is eric vance, an oceanographer at the university of new south wales and he joins us now via skype, along with david souci, a vn safety analyst. eric, this is your area of expertise. what does it mean to you that they have been able to narrow an under-sea search area to 240 kilometers? for sure it s a good thing if they think the plane is really down there. but even 240 kilometers or 150 miles is a vast area of ocean to cover. and the thing about working in the ocean and i ve been out on