California governor retreats from single payer health care

The current governor of California campaigned on pushing single-payer health care for the state. Kaiser Health News reported on the governor's subsequent distancing from the initiative.

Single-payer health care is popular with certain segments of the population, and one can see why a gubernatorial candidate for the state of California would try to campaign for it. However, as the article points out, Vermont had previously approved it but then did not implement it, suggesting that economics can be difficult. The current governor of California seems to have shifted his strategy to something that seems more achievable: "universal health care," which might be implemented via a patchwork of programs, but seems still difficult. Interesting, the governor still supports the idea of single-payer health care, but is deferring to the federal government.