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Volume 358:1537-1540 April 10, 2008 Number 15 Next

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On January 8, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced a plan to ensure health care coverage for virtually all the state's residents, in part by requiring businesses to insure their employees and residents to have health insurance. Nearly a year later, the governor and California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez agreed on a compromise bill that kept most of the original proposal but revised the funding mechanism considerably. The Assembly passed the bill in mid-December along strict party lines (Democrats, yea; Republicans, nay) and sent it to the Senate, whose Health Committee rejected it overwhelmingly on January 28, 2008. Although Schwarzenegger . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Mr. Isaacs is a partner in the consulting firm Isaacs–Jellinek, San Francisco, which serves foundations. Dr. Schroeder is a professor of health and health care in the Department of Medicine and the director of the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at the University of California, San Francisco.

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