Here are four key notes:
1. Mr. Rendon called the proposal “woefully incomplete” in June. When the state Senate first considered the proposal in June, the bill did not give details as to how the state would fund such a system.
2. Officials will consider the proposal this fall along with an ACA expansion bill.
3. Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, introduced the bill. The California Nurses Association sponsored it.
4. In June, when officials took the bill off the table, the association strongly opposed the decision. Regarding the upcoming hearings, the association released a statement saying, “There is nothing a Select Committee can do that could not have been done by first the Assembly Health Committee, then the Assembly Appropriations Committee could have done on SB 562 – if the goal was, in fact ‘serious proposals for healthcare for all.'”
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