California revisits offering universal health care, despite no clear plan to pay for it

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : They hope that separating the idea of a universal health care system from the question of how to pay for it will give them a better chance of getting the bills passed and eventually winning voter approval.
55% : Universal health care has been debated for decades in the U.S., most recently during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, when U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders promoted it.
53% : The California universal health care plan requires at least a two-thirds vote in both houses of the state Legislature ahead of voter approval in a statewide election.
50% : In 2017, another attempt to create state universal health care passed in the state Senate but failed in the Assembly because there was no funding plan.
41% : In 1994, California voters rejected the ballot initiative, which would have replaced private insurance with a government-run system.
40% : The California Taxpayers Association, which opposes the plan, says it would raise taxes by $163 billion per year on businesses and people.
39% : State lawmakers in Sanders' home state of Vermont have tried and failed to implement their own universal health care system.

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