Supporters of newly proposed California bill SB 840, entitled “The  Health Insurance Reliability Act,” believe that government-run health care will solve America’s health care problems. Last July, the California Democratic Committee Executive Board announced, “a universal, single-payer health insurance system… has
been predicted in numerous American studies and demonstrated in  other countries to result in greater efficiency, lower costs to businesses, individuals, and government.”¹

Certainly, uninsured patients, rising costs of medical care, and emergency rooms flooded with patients for non-urgent care are evidence of a broken health care system. But socialized medicine is not the answer. Californians should seriously consider the Constitutional consequences of a completely government-run system.

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