A single-payer health care bill died in the California State Assembly on Jan. 31 without enough support from lawmakers—a win, according to a health care policy expert, as the bill would have increased taxes and slashed doctors’ payroll. Sally Pipes, president in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute, told the EpochTV’s “California Insider” program the bill would have led to an exodus of doctors leaving the state. With centralized health care, the state government would cut doctors’ salaries to meet the costs of the services, Pipes said. “[The doctors are] going to leave the state of California and practice in Nevada, and Arizona and Texas, in Florida,” she said. “So what are we going to do? We’ll have to become medical tourists to leave the state if the best doctors are gone.” Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) introduced Assembly Bill 1400, called California Guaranteed Health Care for All …