Health Care Initiative Officially on Ballot
California voters will decide in November whether to implement a state-run universal health care program.
Election officials announced Monday that supporters had collected valid signatures of more than 725,000 registered voters, about 110,000 more than they needed to qualify the initiative for the Nov. 8 ballot.
The measure’s supporters gathered more than a million signatures altogether.
The initiative, backed by a coalition of consumer, labor and senior citizen groups, would set up a single-payer, Canadian-style health care system for California’s 31 million residents.
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