Fake news alert. Your posted article states:
On the campaign trail, Democratic candidate for Maryland Governor Ben Jealous is pledging to fight for Medicare-for-All should he be elected in 2018, while New York and California both have live, robust single payer bills in their respective legislatures.
The bill in the CA legislature is hardly "
live". Last I heard it was put abruptly on hold, as stated in the linked article. Why?
Earlier this month, the state Senate voted to pass a $400 billion plan sponsored by the California Nurses Association, sending it to the Assembly. But the measure had few details — including how the state would raise the money to pay for it.
Rendon said he supported the concept of single-payer health care but called the bill “woefully incomplete.”
In other words, the CA single payer legislation as currently constructed would be an underfunded boondoggle, and is DOA in the CA Assembly until someone can figure out how to fund it. Good luck with that.
New York's
legislation is in a similar situation. The legislation passed the Assembly last spring, and calls for an additional $92B in tax increases to fund it (which some believe won't even begin to cover the expected costs. Its going nowhere fast in the state's Senate, however.
Should have posted this in the Fake News thread.