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State-level single-payer healthcare faces death by sticker-shock

By Sally Pipes

Published June 7, 2017 6:29pm ET

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State-level single-payer healthcare faces death by sticker-shock — As lawmakers in California and New York will soon learn, even progressives balk at handing nearly one-sixth of their earnings in exchange for "free" healthcare. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) | Rich Pedroncelli

Californians and New Yorkers could soon discover just how expensive “free” healthcare really is.

On June 1, California’s Senate passed the Healthy California Act by a vote of 23-14. If it passes the State Assembly, the bill will create a single-payer healthcare system that charges no premiums, co-pays, or deductibles. In mid-May, New York’s State Assembly approved its own single-payer overhaul (the New York Health Act) and sent it to the State Senate.

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