Repealing the HMO Act is not on any politician’s agenda. But perhaps a better regulated, less heavily profit-oriented system of multiple payers could work in the U.S.

Xavier Becerra, the former U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services and a leading Democratic contender for California ...

No candidate has outlined how California would fund comprehensive health coverage for its 40 million residents.

Becerra indicated that making progress on government-run healthcare while President Donald Trump is in office was unrealistic ...

Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 770 three years ago. The legislation stemmed from a commission Newsom appointed to study how ...

California Democratic gubernatorial candidates are reviving promises of single-payer healthcare even as state lawmakers have ...

Single-payer health care systems deliver better outcomes at much lower cost than those that rely primarily on private insurance, as we do in the United States. Considerable evidence supports this ...

There is slightly more physician support for a single-payer system over a multiple-payer system, although only 35.2 percent of physicians projected a single-payer system would improve or ...

Tom Steyer, the controversial billionaire who ran unsuccessfully for president, is trying to appeal to California voters with ...

The Vermont legislature, which has considered imposing a single-payer health care system in the past, is discussing the step once again in the current legislative session. William Hsiao, the K. T. Li ...

With Democrats pushing to upend US health care and create a single-payer system, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Wednesday offered a look at how such a system would pay for pharmaceuticals, ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom edged away from his campaign pledge to adopt single-payer healthcare. He got UCLA to study it and instead expanded Medi-Cal coverage.