This week, California's latest attempt at enacting single-payer health care fell flat when the San Jose assemblyman who wrote the bill pulled it just moments before a floor vote because he did not have the votes to pass it. There's been a bit of a political firestorm ever since.

The failure to advance the measure came just days after a new study that showed just how costly California's current health care system is, and how much trouble so many Californians have in getting the care they need.

For more, KCBS Radio reporter and host of this segment Doug Sovern spoke with Larry Levitt, Executive Vice President for Health Policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation.