Becker's Healthcare May 16, 2022
The letters EDD explain why California’s attempts at a single-payer healthcare system keep stalling out, according to California Focus, a syndicated public affairs newspaper column.
The opinion, published May 12 in the Sonoma Index-Tribune, says the EDD, or the state Employment Development Department and its unemployment insurance system, displayed incompetence during the COVID-19 pandemic and has left residents cautious about entrusting other state departments with major sums of money.
EDD reportedly lost $20 billion to fraudulent claims of the original $180 billion it allocated to residents during the first 18 months of the pandemic, though it has managed to get a few billion back, according to California Focus.
The most recent single-payer proposal from this year would have cost the...
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