(AP) — California's state budget could take a $30 billion annual hit if health care legislation proposed by U.S. Senate Republicans is passed, state officials said Wednesday. The Senate GOP legislation "takes a sledgehammer" to improvements in California's health care system, said Jennifer Kent, the department's director. Covered California, the state's insurance exchange, on Wednesday released an analysis of how the Senate bill would affect the middle-income consumers who receive subsidized private coverage under Obama's law. [...] in an indication of the liberal anger over the future of health care policy, demonstrators crowded into the California Capitol Wednesday to protest the death of a bill that would have provided government-funded health care to everyone in the state. The California Nurses Association, which wrote and advocated the bill, led chants in in the Capitol rotunda that echoed throughout the building as demonstrators ignored pleas from a California Highway Patrol officer to avoid disrupting people trying to work.