Gavin Newsom in Jacobin Magazine


On Health Care: Public option is not the right thing

Gavin Newsom recently announced that California is going to start manufacturing its own insulin later this year. The California news is one small indication of the way health care policy debates have shifted in the last decade and a half. I can remember watching then president Barack Obama on TV when he first rolled out the Affordable Care Act (the ACA, otherwise known as "Obamacare") in 2009. Obama said that if the United States was starting its health care system over from scratch, he would prefer a "single-payer" system--what would later became known as Medicare for All. But because we weren't "starting from scratch," what Obama actually proposed was a market-based patchwork of regulations.
Source: Jacobin e-zine on California insulin deal Jun 9, 2023

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