A 12-year-old patient in the emergency department at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital in December.. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) A new bill introduced in the California state Senate ...

SACRAMENTO—Single-payer health care didn’t stand a chance in California this year. Even in this deep-blue bastion, Democratic lawmakers shied away from legislation that would have put state government ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sally Pipes is a scholar and think tank CEO who writes on health care. Pipes writes, "single-payer health care saddles patients ...

For many Californians, the proposal of a state-run single-payer health system remains a ‘pie-in-the-sky’ idea, and odds are it could remain that way, especially if leading advocates can’t agree on how ...

Karl Marx could have been forecasting the future of California when he said that history repeats itself – first as tragedy, then as farce. The tragedy is a state budget of $225.9 billion this year, ...

Healthcare reform has been a topic of debate in the United States for decades. Two terms often used to discuss it are "universal healthcare coverage" and "single-payer" system. Yet "single-payer" as a ...

The key issue in the emerging national health care debate is the role of the federal government. While some Members of Congress favor a “single-payer” national health insurance system—”Medicare for ...