California State Health Care: Unions Learn Wrong Lessons

Eyes fixed on other things, you may have missed the Los Angeles Times’ recent post-mortem of a very California coup — the attempted state takeover of health care led by the powerful California Nurses Association (CNA) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Since then, the Times reports, the unions and their allies across the nation have carefully studied the disaster and drawn precisely the wrong lessons from their defeat. Regrouping now, they’ve promised to return in 2023 — and to impose their Great Idea on you, wherever you live.

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Will Swaim

Will Swaim is the CEO of the California Policy Center and, with David L. Bahnsen, a co-host of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast.

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Eyes fixed on other things, you may have missed the Los Angeles Times’ recent post-mortem of a very California coup — the attempted state takeover of health care led by the powerful California Nurses Association (CNA) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Since then, the Times reports, the unions and their allies across the nation have carefully studied the disaster and drawn precisely the wrong lessons from their defeat. Regrouping now, they’ve promised to return in 2023 — and to impose their Great Idea on you, wherever you live.