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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A bill that would require health insurers to cover more of the costs of treating mental health conditions moved forward in Congress on Wednesday with wide backing from employers and insurers.
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In a post-election blow to powerful nursing unions, the Schwarzenegger administration moved Thursday to ease some requirements of the state&#39;s first-in-the-nation law telling hospitals how many nurses they must have on hand to care for patients.
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On Tuesday, November 2, 2004, California voters will go to the polls to decide whether to establish, in the California Constitution, an &quot;Institute of Regenerative Medicine,&quot; with sweeping powers to regulate scientific experimentation, medical research
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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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Investor's Business Daily - The Nov. 7 election that gave Democrats majorities in both the House and Senate put health insurance alongside the Iraq War as lead agenda items for the new Congress, which takes over in January.
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A 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.
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Californians voted Tuesday to spend &#36;3 billion on stem cell research, putting the state on the cutting edge of a field questioned by conservatives and the Bush administration. Arizonans approved a crackdown on illegal immigrants, and 11 states from Georgia to Oregon adopted bans on same-sex marriage.
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California voters appeared to be strongly endorsing stem cell research Tuesday night, as exit polls and early returns suggested an easy win for Proposition 71.
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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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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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Voters in California are almost evenly divided on a ballot measure that could approve state funding for stem cell research, according to a poll released on Sunday.
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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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When voters go to the polls Tuesday, they&#39;ll decide whether the state will allow more gambling, less abortion rights and more or less protection for doctors faced with spiraling malpractice insurance premiums.
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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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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.