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Our assemblymember, Jim Wood, helped create a new agency to limit future growth in health care costs. The agency will have the power to enforce that mandate. Story from @CalMatters.

A California ballot initiative that would tax the states wealthiest residents and fund public health initiatives will not go to voters this fall.

For years, consumer advocates and some legislators have been battling to rein in escalating health care costs. Now the state has created a new agency to limit future growth in health care costs — and it will have the power to enforce that mandate.

For years, consumer advocates and some legislators have been battling to rein in escalating health care costs. Now the state has created a new agency to limit future growth in health care costs — and it will have the power to enforce that mandate.

A California ballot initiative that would tax the states wealthiest residents and fund public health initiatives will not go to voters this fall.

A California ballot initiative that would tax the states wealthiest residents and fund public health initiatives will not go to voters this fall.

A California ballot initiative that would tax the states wealthiest residents and fund public health initiatives will not go to voters this fall.

A ballot measure that would have taxed California millionaires to boost public health funding will not be on the November ballot. But the tech titans who bankrolled the effort say they are negotiating with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration to get more money without imposing new taxes.

A California ballot initiative that would tax the states wealthiest residents and fund public health initiatives will not go to voters this fall.

Dozens of state and local budgets depend heavily on tax revenue from oil, gas and coal to fund schools, hospitals and more. Replacing that money is turning out to be a major challenge in the fight against climate change.