California hits $25B pothole on way to health-care reform - POLITICO.com: "SAN FRANCISCO — When it comes to implementing the health care reform law, California has just one place it wants to be: way out in front.
“We want to be the lead car,” California Health and Human Services Secretary Diana Dooley told POLITICO in January, shortly after the state became the first in the nation to pass legislation allowing it to set up a health exchange."
