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Single-Payer Plan's Price Tag in California: $400 Billion Per Year

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Lawmakers who want to establish a single-payer health care system for California have come up with an estimate of how much it would cost: $400 billion a year. That's more than twice the amount of the entire California state budget. So where would that money come from?

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