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Democrats Help Corporate Donors Block California Health Care Measure, And Progressives Lose Again</h1>
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BY <span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;"><span itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemprop="author" itemscope="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; vertical-align: top;" class=""><a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/reporters/david-sirota" class="author-name" rel="author" itemprop="url" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(36, 36, 41);"><span itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; vertical-align: top;" class="">DAVID
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Rendon’s move, things seemed to be looking up for Democratic single-payer proponents in deep blue California, which has been hammered by insurance premium increases. There, the Democratic Party — which originally created Medicare — just added a legislative
supermajority to a Democratic-controlled state government that oversees the world’s sixth largest economy. That 2016</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: 'San Francisco', -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.24px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> election
victory came as a poll showed nearly two-thirds of Californians support the creation of a taxpayer-funded universal health care system in a state whose population is roughly the size of Canada — which already has such a system.<br class="">
California’s highest-profile federal Democratic lawmaker recently endorsed state efforts to create single-payer systems, and 25 members of its congressional delegation had signed on to sponsor a federal single-payer bill.<br class="">
Meanwhile, after Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had twice vetoed state single-payer legislation, California in 2010 elected a governor who had previously campaigned for president on a pledge to support such a system. Other statewide elected officials
had also declared their support for single-payer, including the current lieutenant governor, who promised to enact a universal health care program if he is wins the governorship in 2018.<br class="">
.... None of that, though, made the difference: Late Friday, Rendon announced that even though a single-payer bill had passed the Democratic-controlled state senate, he would not permit the bill to be voted on by the Assembly this year.<br class="">
... Since 2012, Rendon has taken in more than $82,000 from business groups and healthcare corporations that are listed in state documents opposed the measure, according to an International Business Times review of data amassed by the National Institute on Money
In State Politics. In all, he has received more than $101,000 from pharmaceutical companies and another $50,000 from major health insurers.<br class="">
In the same time, the California Democratic Party has received more than $1.2 million from the specific groups opposing the bill, and more than $2.2 million from pharmaceutical and health insurance industry donors. That includes a $100,000 infusion of cash
from Blue Shield of California in the waning days of the 2016 election — just before state records show the insurer began lobbying against the single-payer bill.<br class="">
...The episode in California was the latest defeat for single-payer health care advocates, who have faced a string of losses at the hands of Democrats whose party has continued to attract significant cash from the health care industries that benefit from the
current system."</span></div>
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