'We will have universal healthcare in the state of California,' Gavin Newsom promises single-payer advocates - LA Times
Hospitals by Ownership Type | The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
I guess they will have universal healthcare by paying a premium to the 76 investor-owned hospitals that California relies on to provide hospital services.
Seems like ultra-Republican Wyoming prefers for most of it's hospitals to be state and county owned by the government. California says they want univeral, single-payer care but they reliant on 76 investor-owned hospitals that are accountable to share holders to provide healthcare to Californians.
I wonder how it's going to work with their plans for single-payer healthcare considering they have 76 hospitals that are for-profit, investor-owned that are accountable to share holders first and foremost.
I hope they have fun with their universal healthcare while possibly facing huge funding cuts from the federal government under per-capita block grant program while paying a huge profit margin to investor hospitals.
Guess, Democrats in California don't believe in government ownership of a majority of hospitals like in Republican Wyoming with 69% of hospitals owned by the local and state government.
The cost per inpatiuent day is 3,300 dollars in California partly because the state is very reliant on 76 for-profit investor owned hospitals to render hospital care, unlike Wyoming with majority state and local government owned hospitals where it costs 1,500 daily.
http://www.kff.org/health-costs/stat...:%22desc%22%7D
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