When San Jose Democrat Ash Kalra rolled out a proposal in the California State Assembly a couple of years ago to convert California’s largely private health care system to a government-directed single-payer plan that would cover everyone, he had an idea of what he was up against.
“The No. 1 tool that opponents will put out there is fear,” Kalra told Capital & Main in late 2021. “They’ll try to scare people into thinking that we’re taking something away, when in fact we’re trying to make health care available to everyone rather than subsidize a massively profitable health care industry.”
