If the federal health care overhaul is deemed unconstitutional, some California lawmakers are considering state-run alternatives. But the key element--an individual mandate--would require a two-thirds majority vote in both the Assembly and the Senate.
As doubts grow about the survival of the federal healthcare law, state officials are considering ways to keep key elements of the legislation alive in California. Skepticism of the Affordable Care Act by conservative Supreme Court justices during oral arguments last week has raised the possibility the court will strike the individual mandate to purchase health coverage or throw out the entire law as unconstitutional.
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