Could California’s Health Care Spending Benchmark Become A Global Budget? Keith Marzilli Ericson August 19, 2026

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/could-california-s-health-care-spending-benchmark-become-global-budget If states, including California, proceed with a penalty scaled to the full spending gap, they should recognize that they are essentially setting a global budget—and that effective global budgets need the apparatus that makes them work elsewhere.