A bill that would have created the nation's only government-funded universal health care system died in the California Assembly on Monday as Democrats could not gather enough support to bring it for a vote ahead of a legislative deadline.
A bill for single-payer healthcare in California didn't even get a vote in the state Assembly after its author couldn't round up enough support before Monday's deadline. Advocates are incensed.
Weeks after a federal judge issued a lifetime ban forbidding Martin Shkreli's participation in the pharmaceutical industry, the disgraced so-called "Pharma Bro" and his old companies reached a $28 million deal that would resolve his litigation with Blue Cross and Blue Shield.