State Senate Hits Stalemate On Universal Healthcare For California

By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times
Thu, 01/26/2012 - 1:55pm

State lawmakers deadlocked Thursday over a controversial measure that would provide universal healthcare in California.

Senh: And so the state fight begins for universal healthcare. The same old arguments for and against it.

Sections: u.s.

GOP boycotts health care advisory board
House and Senate Republican leaders told President Barack Obama Thursday that they will refuse to nominate candidates to serve on an advisory board that is to play a role in holding down Medicare costs under the new health care act. More
US medicine spending shows rare dip
Total U.S. spending on prescription medicines declined last year, a first in more than half a century. The dip was 1 percent, to $325.8 billion — a 3.5 percent drop after accounting for population growth and economic expansion, according to the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. More
Study Finds Expanded Medicaid Increases Health Care Use
Come January, millions of low-income adults will gain health insurance coverage through Medicaid in one of the farthest-reaching provisions of the Obama health care law. More
One flight closer to space tourism
Virgin Galactic is one flight closer to becoming a commercial "spaceline." The company's passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, completed its first rocket-powered flight Monday morning above the Mojave Desert in California. More
Police confiscate 4-foot, 2-pound marijuana joint
California police confiscated a mammoth joint during a 4/20 pot rally on Saturday, reports the Los Angeles Times. As the paper notes, hundreds of UC Santa Cruz students gather each year for the event, and each year campus police confiscate things like bongs and dime bags. More

BING NEWS:

UnitedHealth says ‘substantial proportion’ of Americans’ information hit by cyberattack
Due to the scope of the attack, UHG said it will likely take “several months” to identify and notify customers who were impacted.
04/23/2024 - 10:11 am | View Link
Capital Fellows Programs
Established in 1973, the California Senate Fellows (CSF) program is one of the oldest and most distinguished service-learning programs in the country. The CSF program grew out of a desire to cultivate ...
10/5/2023 - 1:00 pm | View Link
More

Comment On This Story