We are doomed.
Unless you mean "It's going to be designed by the California legislature, therefore we're doomed to a horrible and expensive failure", in which case, yeah, that seems likely.
... you can afford it. Moreso that others. You _are_ the wealth.
I find the idea that not being able to earn a high enough salary means you are unworthy of basic medical care repugnant.
I wouldn't call cancer treatments "basic" by any stretch of the imagination.
If you want everyone to have the "Cadillac" health plan and education plan, you need to tell me how society will pay for it? And lets talk sustainable plans .. no more kicking down the can to our kids and grand kids.
Finally, to all the negative commentators on my post, please read up on the difference between wealth and income. At current rents, factoring current child care costs, lack of pensions and existing tax rates, someone who makes 200K in California is worse off than someone who owns a detached house in Mountain View and a few other properties (by virtue of being here from the Orchard days), and then hides his/her income. I've seen too many people like that at this point in my life. Enough is enough.
Why are others entitled to his money (for healthcare)? Because we decided that we are all good people and take care of each other.
At the end of the day we basically live the same lifestyle that I grew up with, and my dad was a police officer, my mom a public high school teacher. Our house is smaller than the one I grew up with, the local public schools are about the same quality. I'm not complaining, because I'm staying in the Bay Area for a reason: I believe that my good tech salary can be an amazing tech salary if I build the right skills, climb the right ladders. I think it's a chance for upward mobility. But it's a tough call when I ponder what my life would be like if I took a slightly lesser paying job in a more reasonable area of the country.
So, anyway, my point is that you can make the case that "you can afford it, your fellow Californians deserve it," and I'll roll my eyes because no one makes decisions that way. If I had to pay 10% more each year in taxes, I'd definitely be out of here. The other options are just way better at that point.
So, there's a point where I'm simply going to move instead of pay. You can lecture me about what I ought to do all you like but I have a family to take care of, and our standard of living matters to me. Yes, we'd be fine with less money, but I want even more for my family and I really don't feel bad about it.
And, if we all chip in, we can have nice things. Roads, water, electricity, museums, libraries, courts, police, etc.
Is that bad?
My thoughts: I benefit from your children being educated on my dime. You and I benefit from infrastructure we both use maintained on our dime. It's not theft, robbery, murder, or bad or fetishize collectivism.