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From KQED.

Welcome back to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. A bill seeking to cover every Californian with state financed health insurance faced a deadline last night to make it out of the state assembly.

But just before it was set for a vote, Assembly Bill 1400 was withdrawn by its author, Democrat Ash Kalra.

The bill would have made California the only state in the nation with a single-payer health care system.

And for more on what happened, I'm joined by KQED Health correspondent April Dembski.

April, thanks so much for being with us.

Happy to be here.

All right.

So explain why did Assembly member Kalra, who proposed the bill, shepherded it through?

Why did he pull it at the last minute?

He just didn't have the votes.

He needed about 40 to get it through the Assembly floor.

And he said he was short by double digits.

So rather than have it fail miserably, he pulled it.

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