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California comes pretty close.
A marketplace of private health insurance companies is very different from single payer healthcare.
Yes. CA is looking to get single payer, but that has a longer runway because America.
As a Californian, this is mostly just propaganda. Yes, immigration doesn’t affect Medicaid eligibility, and yes that’s a good thing, but if you aren’t low ENOUGH income for Medicaid, coverage is expensive.
Also as others have noted (and more directly addressing OP) California isn’t anywhere close to a single payer system. We have a marketplace of private insurers like everybody else