Matt Mahan

I don't think it's realistic for California to create a single state-run, free healthcare for all system.

I don't understand.

I know many of my opponents in my party, Democratic Party, are proposing this.

I think we...

have a pretty good sense of how to reduce costs.

We just have to be willing to do it.

Price transparency and competition could bring down costs in healthcare by five to 10%.

Preventative care.

We should be incentivizing insurers and health providers for helping someone get healthier and reducing their overall demand on the system over the course of their lifetimes.

Things that may seem small, but getting 100,000 plus people off of our streets and into shelter dramatically reduces the burden on our healthcare system.

I just, I think that prevention, I'll take another one.

practitioners can do so much more than we often allow them to do, which again is a function of this behind-the-scenes negotiation in Sacramento over what are doctors allowed to do, what can nurses do.

Nurse practitioners providing preventative upstream care in clinics in communities can be far more effective at preventing long-term chronic illness than what we do today, which is end up with everybody in the emergency room needing care after they're already really sick.

So

We need to restructure our health care system.

California should be demanding and investing in innovation and better ways of doing things and bend the cost curve, not fall back on this lazy answer that we're just going to find a way to raise taxes more to fund free services that will ultimately just break the bank.

One, I think where this push is coming from is a deep concern about economic inequality and declining social mobility.

And I think these are...

Real issues, I am worried about economic inequality.

I think in the long run, it's a threat to democracy.