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71 Q2 2018 / CINEMONTAGE CA ASSEMBLY MOVES TOWARD UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Los Angeles 63rd District) has refused to advance a controversial single-payer health-care bill that would significantly reshape the state's health-care financing and delivery system, write Angela Hart and Taryn Luna in The Sacramento Bee. Alternatively, Rendon is laying out a narrower approach that would move toward universal coverage and make Obamacare more affordable. Earlier, Rendon gave lawmakers "autonomy to come up with a package" of health care bills. In late March, the Assembly unveiled a major body of legislation on health care that would expand coverage and lower consumer costs, financed by taxpayers. Assembly lawmakers released 14 bills that would offer financial assistance to people struggling to pay for LABOR MAT TERS increasing insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs, require health insurers to spend more on patient care instead of profits, create a public insurance option and offer health coverage to undocumented immigrants, add Hart and Luna. NY LABOR COUNCIL ELECTS FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT The Central New York Labor Council has elected its first woman president in over 150 years, writes Jim Rondenelli for radio station WIPX 950AM. Samantha DeRiso was elected to the post in February following the retirement of outgoing President Patrick Costello. DeRiso is a 30-year employee of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. "It is an honor to be elected to hold this position and continue working with our affiliated union brothers and sisters to make a difference in the workplace," said DeRiso. f California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon unveiled a major body of legislation on health care that would expand coverage and lower consumer costs, financed by taxpayers.