California Governorâs Plan for Health Care in Trouble
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A California Senate health committee is expected to vote against Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggerâs widely promoted and potentially legacy-defining universal health care bill.
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Though the governors of California, Illinois and Pennsylvania proposed sweeping plans to restructure health care this year, none will finish 2007 with bills passed and signed.
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Some states are mismanaging their Medicaid programs and have cheated taxpayers out of as much as &#36;40 billion over the past decade, President Bush's new health secretary says, setting the stage for a fierce fight over how to pay for the increasingly costly health program for the poor.
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California moved significantly closer to enacting a broad expansion of health insurance coverage on Monday when the Democratic-controlled Assembly passed legislation that has the backing of the Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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For some, they&#39;re an innovative and necessary reform for the ailing health care industry. For others, they&#39;re potentially ruinous for Americansâ health care coverage.
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Governor Deval Patrick's proposal to inject $1 billion into medical research and biotechnology is a complex plan whose details have yet to be worked out, and it depends on the Legislature's willingness to fund it over a decade. But his strategy could also be more flexible and cost effective than competing plans in California and other states, according to policy ...
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Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney hurled some of the harshest words of anyone at the health care plan that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton announced yesterday, even though as Massachusetts governor in 2006 he created a strikingly similar system.
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California may be losing its chance to set the U.S. agenda for providing health care to millions of uninsured as lawmakers on Friday said a bill supported by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to do just that is on its deathbed.
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SACRAMENTO  As an alternative to importing low-cost drugs from Canada, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger&#39;s administration is calling for a sweeping new program to offer drug discounts to uninsured, low-income California residents.
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The multi-billion-dollar health care programthat helps fund everything from medical colleges to insurance for poor children may run a shortfall by the end of the state fiscal year.
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California Republican lawmakers unveiled a health-care initiative on Tuesday that they called more realistic than the one proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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HERSHEY | Democrat John Kerry&#39;s health care proposals would result in a massive new government program that would strip doctors and patients of their ability to make their own decisions and
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The Schwarzenegger administration on Thursday proposed changes to a landmark law that limits the number of hospital patients under a nurse&#39;s care, citing a need for hospital staffing flexibility.
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A plan that would provide coverage to an estimated 70 percent of the 5.1 million persistently uninsured Californians passed the State Assembly on Monday.
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California Gov. Arnold   Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday he would veto a bill that would   create a government-run health care system for the most   populous U.S. state.
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California plans to scuttle a confidential rehab program that allows physicians to keep practicing while undergoing treatment for alcoholism or drug addiction. Doctors are furious and other states are watching to see what happens.
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He copes with budget shortfalls, accidental deaths at King/Drew hospital and demands for his ouster. By Jia-Rui Chong. Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, the embattled director of Los Angeles County&#39;s Department of Health