Taxpayers Foot 70 Percent Of California’s Health Care Tab, Study Finds

This year, taxpayers will cover about 70 percent of what is spent on health care in California, according to a new analysis released Wednesday by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Many people assume that the U.S. health care system is primarily supported by private dollars, such as insurance premiums from employer-based coverage, said Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the study’s lead author. But that’s no longer the case, at least in California — mostly because of its massive expansion of...