SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After all the scuffling over single-payer health care legislation, the author mercifully killed the bill himself. It was smart — the only possible move that made sense.
If he had pushed for a vote on the Assembly floor, the measure would have gone "down in flames," Assemblyman Ash Kalra, D-San Jose, told angry supporters in a Zoom call after he allowed the bill to die peacefully.
He hoped to leave open the possibility of a resurrection next year in a new Legislature.
