Single Payer 2 Votes Short in Senate - Capitol Desk - California Healthline
The idea of a single-payer health care system in California stalled on the Senate floor yesterday, falling two votes short of passage.
Reconsideration of the bill was granted, though, so proponents of SB 810 by Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) have until Tuesday to reintroduce the bill. First they will have to come up with two big votes. The bill failed on a 19-15 vote.
"We don't want to follow the path of Europe, where the economy is in trouble, where the Euro is failing," Sen. Ted Gaines (R-Roseville) said. "It's not the example we should follow. We don't have the money. I don’t know where the money's going to come from."Read more: http://www.californiahealthline.org/capitol-desk/2012/1/single-payer-fails-on-senate-floor.aspx#ixzz1khjyHfvw
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