California State Assembly members were slated to vote on single-payer health care bill Assembly Bill 1400 on Jan. 31 after it passed a series of hurdles this month. However, the bill didn’t have enough support to pass the legislative body, and lawmakers let the bill die without bringing it to a vote by the deadline. “We are all gutted,” Amar Shergill, chairman of the Progressive Caucus and executive board member of the California Democratic Party, wrote on Twitter. “Will need a moment to absorb and recover.” AB 1400—which would have created the first state single-payer health care system in the nation—would have required an estimated $163 billion in new taxes per year and offered health care to all citizens and noncitizens living in the state. “Despite heavy opposition and substantial misinformation from those that stand to profit from our current healthcare system, we were able to ignite a realistic and achievable …