California Moves Toward Universal Health Care
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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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SIGNAL HILL, Calif., Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Care, Inc., a managed care health plan dedicated to providing, arranging and delivering quality health care programs and services to California&#39;s diverse
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SACRAMENTO, California  - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday vowed to continue pressing for legislation that would provide health insurance to his state's uninsured, a day after a universal health care bill he supported died in a Senate committee.
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Californians voted by a wide margin last month to pass a landmark &#36;3 billion initiative to fund stem-cell research. That may have been the easy part.
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Hawaii, the first U.S. state to mandate that employers provide health insurance for workers, scored best among its peers in providing safe and affordable medical care, a report released on Wednesday found.
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LOS ANGELES -- With his own party sidelined, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) is working with Democrats to produce a bill that would extend health insurance to everyone in the nation's largest state if voters approve new taxes to pay for it.
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SACRAMENTO, California  - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday vowed to press on with legislation to provide health insurance to his state's uninsured, a day after a universal health care bill he backed died in a Senate committee.
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California is moving quickly to launch a &#36;3 billion stem cell research program approved by voters this month even as the United States is leading a campaign at the United Nations to ban all cloning of human embryos, including for stem cell studies.
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The Mayo Clinic today called for every individual to have basic universal insurance as a step toward gradually replacing the current employer-based system.
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Proposition 72 is a $7 billion employer-mandated health-care tax to create a massive government run health-care system aimed at helping the uninsured.
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California has emerged as a key  battleground state on the issue of pension overhaul, with Gov.  Arnold Schwarzenegger pushing private accounts for state  employees and lower government contributions to public pension  plans that provide defined benefits.
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The California Legislature has offered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger an opportunity to save thousands of lives and millions of health-care dollars at almost no cost to state government.
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San Francisco is gambling that it can provide universal and sensibly managed care to the uninsured for about the amount being spent on their treatment now.
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Uninsured Washington area residents shopping for health coverage -- or convinced they have to go without -- have a new tool to help them assess the options available to them. A Web site first developed for California by the nonprofit Foundation for Health Coverage Education now includes informati...
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California becomes the first US state to provide funding for stem cell research, medical experiments that involve human embryos.
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California officials are unveiling a proposed bill that would make it a crime to drop off hospital patients on the street.
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Among health care experts there is a surprising consensus that the U.S. must inevitably adopt some kind of universal coverage.