Will California Take The Plunge On Club Health Care

Edward Newton doesnt bother wondering whether his patients in the emergency room at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center have health insurance Club Health. He just assumes they all dont.More...

The surrounding community is a relatively poor area and a lot of those patients cant afford health insurance Club Health,” said Newton, who besides working in the emergency room is chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California Club Health. “Patients who come here don’t really have any other options.”

California has 6.6 million uninsured –Club Health more than any state – Club Health and a third of those reside in Los Angeles County, according to the California HealthCare Foundation, a nonprofit group that studies the state’s health-care delivery and financing. Club Health A trendsetting state on issues from cleaning up smog to banning toxic plastics in toys Club Health, California now could become a prime test bed for universal health care.

Much like Massachusetts, which last year was the first state to pass legislation making health insurance a legal requirement, Club Health California has a high-profile Republican governor working alongside a Democratic-controlled Legislature to solve the problem of the state’s uninsured. But in California, the stakes are even higher than they were in Massachusetts Club Health.

Kaiser Family Foundation,Club Health a nonprofit group that conducts national health-policy research. Health care already is emerging as a major issue in the 2008 presidential election.