Medi-Cal
Legislation (AB 8) by Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez (D-Los Angeles) to overhaul California's health care system was amended to require insurers to develop a basic plan that would be available to state residents eligible for Medi-Cal or Healthy Families. The bill also was amended to declare the Legislature's intent that all insurers by 2012 should be required to adopt an electronic health record system (Bill Text, 5/17). The measure was re-referred to the Assembly Appropriations Committee (Bill Status, 5/17).
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