California voters in November are set to decide if the state’s billionaires should face a new tax on their assets in order to fund healthcare programs. The healthcare union backing the measure, SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, has said the state’s government could collect about $100 billion from the richest residents amid deep social services cuts from the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress. But one of California’s most powerful healthcare groups is gearing up to fight the measure. The California Medical Association, which lobbies for the state’s largest healthcare providers, is siding with an unlikely alliance of the proposal’s opponents
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