Tag: Antonio Villaraigosa

Single-Payer Issue Drives Dollars Into Gubernatorial Campaign

The California Nurses Association union and Blue Shield of California each have contributed about $1 million to independent committees that support Newsom. The powerful nurses union strongly supports single-payer health care, while that model of health care delivery could pose an existential threat to insurer […]

Gubernatorial Hopefuls Look To Health Care For Election Edge

There’s more energy in California around the idea of universal coverage than people see in lots of other parts of the country, and could be an important factor in this year’s elections.  Pauline Bartolone, California Healthline California’s leading gubernatorial candidates agree that health care should […]