Before leaving for a week-long spring break, the California Legislature took action on a heath insurance plan tax.
We’re a big state with big challenges. Each morning we explain the top issues and how Californians are trying to solve them.Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi speaks during the floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Feb. 20, 2024. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters
One is a bill to increase the state’s tax on managed care health plans. As part of a strategy to increase tax revenue and reduce the state budget deficit, the state can increase theon Medi-Cal insurance plans and commercial plans and use that money to request matching federal dollars. The tax contributes about $1.
Gov. Newsom said late Thursday that he supports President Joe Biden’s call for a ceasefire in Gaza, citing the “ongoing and horrific loss of innocent civilian life.”addressed to California’s Muslim, Palestinian American, and Arab American communities: “I support President Biden’s call for an immediate ceasefire as part of a deal to secure desperately needed relief for Gazan civilians and the release of hostages. I also unequivocally denounce Hamas’s terrorist attack against Israel.
Officials from California chapters of the Council on American Islamic Relations and other groups have been pushing the governor to call for a ceasefire for months — including at aA warehouse worker sorts packages at an Amazon fulfillment center on Nov. 11, 2010. Photo by Ross D. Franklin, AP Photo
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