George Skelton: No debate on skyrocketing cost of California single-payer bill? So much for good government
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Things don't always go as hoped. A prime example is the Democrats' push for single-payer health care legislation.
A good-government hope was that this effort would result in a thoughtful, substantive legislative debate worthy of the monumental issue of universal health care.
That hope was dashed Thursday in a legislative fiscal committee, which failed to carry out what should be its primary duty: to dig into the innards of a spending bill and examine whether it makes financial sense.
The contentious bill, AB 1400, sailed through the Assembly Appropriations Committee on a
