California’s budget slashing stripped health insurance from 700,000 of the state’s poorest children covered by Healthy Families. Now House speaker Karen Bass is trying to save the program with a bill that would replace a 5.5% levy on insurance companies set to expire in October, with a 2.35% tax insurance companies have already agreed to, and which would be matched by federal funds. We check in as a vote goes to the lower house today.

Guests:

Julie Small, KPCC reporter in Sacramento bureau