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As more and more private insurers consolidate and merge into a de facto for-profit single payer, we need to fight harder than ever to protect the only single payer that cares as much for least among us as it does the top 1%. It is time for Medicare for all!

A review of the campaign for Prop 186, California Health Security Act.

California Healthline asked politicians, academics and consumer advocates how California should pay for the rising costs of providing health coverage for retired state workers.

Just over 50 percent of people say they still support the idea of a single payer healthcare system, including one-quarter of Republicans, according to a new poll.

We can reduce healthcare costs. But not as long as we regard some of the most vulnerable members of society as profit centers.

Taking issue with the $57 million deceptive advertising campaign by the state’s biggest insurance giants, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United has begun a broad radio campaign to inform voters that “real nurses” support Prop 45 to rein in excessive insurance increases that put patients at risk.

Blue Shield policyholders joined with bedside nurses from the California Nurses Association, consumer advocates and other supporters of Proposition 45’s rate relief measure to deliver a pickup truck of steer manure to Blue Shield’s offices.

For the next two months, Californians will to be subjected to a barrage of TV, radio and online ads, which, ironically, they unknowingly will be paying for with their health insurance premiums.

That noise you hear may be the sound of a battle for regulatory supremacy over health insurance in California.

The “Insurance Rate Public Justification and Accountability Act” requires health insurance companies to publicly justify rate increases and obtain approval by the California Insurance Commissioner before they take effect.