{"id":681482,"date":"2026-05-20T08:14:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/681482\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:14:29","slug":"opinion-xavier-becerra-didnt-sell-out-by-admitting-single-payer-is-infeasible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/681482\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Xavier Becerra didn&#8217;t sell out by admitting single payer is infeasible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"23O7MQZBVJBXPIHYOSH6SNOJV4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Former health and human services secretary Xavier Becerra recently nodded to reality on health care, and his Democratic rivals for California governor are pummeling him for it.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"SIT2IBGXCBBSTPEMIGLXG4MBTQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">After decades of championing a single-payer system, Becerra <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/12082059\/xavier-becerra-backpedals-on-single-payer-as-he-woos-powerful-doctors-lobby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly told<\/a> the California Medical Association that he\u2019s not supportive at this point. His spokesman clarified that single payer remains \u201cthe right goal,\u201d but President Donald Trump would never approve the state diverting funds for its implementation, so he plans to focus instead on shoring up Medicaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former health and human services secretary Xavier Becerra recently nodded to reality on health care, and his Democratic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-681482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}