Columnist: California Reform Efforts ‘Trial Run’ for U.S.

Wall Street Journal columnist Gerald Seib argues that California's failed health care reform efforts in 2007 and 2008 "represented a kind of trial run for health-care overhaul the president and Congress are about to attempt on the national level, offering useful lessons as well as warning signs about the potholes ahead."

• "California Stages Trial Run for U.S. Health Care Overhaul" (Seib, "Capital Journal," Wall Street Journal, 5/20).