The latest set of health care proposals from the Trump administration has done nothing but embolden a California lawmaker to continue swinging for the fences: the creation of a single-payer, state-run system of care that virtually removes health insurance companies from the mix.
That idea is hardly a new one. In fact, the legislator, Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose), has himself introduced or reintroduced a form of it four times over the past five years.
