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December 02, 2004 at 07:00 PM
It’s official: California employers have defeated their state’s proposed universal health coverage program.[@@]
State officials announced Wednesday that a ballot measure implementing the program, Proposition 72, failed by a margin of 202,854 votes.
The measure attracted 49.1% of the votes cast, officials said.
Officials reported Nov. 3, the day after the fall general election, that the measure had received only 49.1% of the votes cast. But because the measure was losing by only 163,000 votes and California officials believed that millions of absentee ballots and provisional ballots were still outstanding, supporters held out some hope that the measure might pass.
Proposition 72 appeared on California’s fall ballot because of state Senate Bill 2, a bill that triggered efforts to set up a state-supervised universal health coverage program.
