A study was released Tuesday apparently it would cost California an extra $10 billion to institute. Which I would think was worth it, if it bypassed the insurance companies, but I am not convinced the Massachusetts plan does that.

This is an opportunity, I think, for our union brothers and sisters to take the lead. Let’s push a statewide single-payer health care system. We need it, and it’d be good politics.

UPDATE: Check out what they’re doing in Wisconsin:

This proposal, paired with a similar publicly-funded plan for those not covered through employment (paid for by reduced public expenditures for Medicaid and Badgercare), would not only solve our health care crisis, it could also be a powerful tool for economic development. Imagine if we could tell current Wisconsin employers, or firms thinking of expanding or locating in Wisconsin , that their health care costs for employees would be lower than in other states, that the quality of care would be higher–and that they would have no administrative costs for the health care of their workers!