California Legislature enacts no major healthcare overhaul but OKs some key changes
Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 11:28
in Health & Medicine
One bill would curb retroactive cancellation of sick patients' coverage. Aggressive lobbying by insurers and doctors and internal feuds among Democrats kill most proposals. California lawmakers acted to curb some of the most extreme practices of the state's healthcare industry this session, even as they failed to fix some of its most widespread problems, such as high costs and uneven quality.