California assembly leader shelves single payer bill

[publicunofficial]

Sh-t like this is why we need "purity tests". What a disgusting excuse for a left-wing party.

Purity tests are dumb and always will be.

Any Democrat that receives half a million in campaign contributions from the healthcare industry and subsequently sabotages a plan for single-payer deserves to be thrown out of office. I don't see how this could possibly be a controversial assertion.

Support for single payer should absolutely be a purity test.

[publicunofficial]

People might want to read this thread on why it was shelved before bitching about Democrats not being liberal enough.

https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/878474055233523712

I can't see single-payer surviving long in a state like CA (or WA) where voters can directly decide tax policy.

Any plan to implement single-payer in WA would have to involve throwing Tim Eyman into the trunk of a car and driving it into the Puget Sound.