Health Care Pushed to Fore By Calif. Vote
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 -- The universal health insurance package that one chamber of California's legislature passed this week looks a lot like the one Massachusetts not only passed but put in place a year earlier: Every resident will be required to have insurance, every employer must pitch in, and...
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The California Legislature passed a bill that would give California's 55 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, rather than the candidate who captured the state &#151; but for now, the measure stands a slim chance of becoming reality.
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In California, seriously ill patients await a Supreme Court decision on the doctor-recommended medical marijuana which they feel has saved their lives.
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California did not start the current wave of efforts to overhaul the American health-care system, but what happens in Sacramento over the next few weeks could have a big impact on whether the drive gains momentum or peters out.
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A House committee on Thursday unanimously approved a bill to protect health care facilities and providers from malpractice liability in natural disasters.  The House Business and Labor Committee voted 11-0 to move SB153 to House floor.
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SACRAMENTO, California  - Seeking to give voters in the nation's most populous state a greater voice in choosing the next U.S. president, California's state assembly agreed on Tuesday to move its presidential primary to February 2008.
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California will vote on a broad campaign-finance measure that includes limits on corporate donors.
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Clinton has a big advantage in California among this powerful voting bloc, but Obama is trying to make inroads
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Vote-by-mail ballots go out this week in the nation's most populous state, forcing presidential campaigns to consider using scarce dollars to lure early California voters while contests unfold in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
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San Francisco's universal health-care plan, a first-of-its kind local program to be funded in part by fees on employers, may go forward while under appeal, a U.S. appeals court panel ruled on Wednesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- If health care is a highly ranked domestic priority among voters as expected, Sen. John Kerry may have an advantage: A new report suggests Americans are worse off than they were four
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U.S. lawmakers on Thursday prepared for a major battle over children's health care as President George W. Bush vowed to veto a Democratic-backed bill that would raise cigarette taxes to pay for expanding a program for kids in low-income families.
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A controversial California ballot measure that would fund a decade of stem cell research with &#36;3 billion in state money was headed for a resounding victory on Wednesday, initial returns showed.
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The cost crunch in health care is being made one of the most potent domestic issues of the election year.
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State efforts to transform the nationâs health care system appear to be on a collision course with the Bush administrationâs latest budget proposal.
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Defying a veto threat from President George W. Bush, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to expand a health care program for children in low-income families and raise tobacco taxes to pay for it.
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Tuesday&#39;s vote by Californians to spend $3 billion on human embryonic stem cell research could speed progress on the promising but controversial field and make the state the epicenter of such research.