Healthcare pushed to fore by California vote

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Washington Post, December 26, 2007

The universal health insurance package that one chamber of California's legislature passed last week looks a lot like the one Massachusetts put in place a year earlier. Every resident will be required to have insurance, every employer must pitch in, and no one can be denied coverage because of a preexisting condition.

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