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Article: AP Interview: Schwarzenegger to try health care fix again
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- April 30, 2008
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Three months after his effort to retool the state's health care system ran aground, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told The Associated Press he'll try again.
Schwarzenegger said he has an obligation to try to make health care available to Californians who lack coverage _ an estimated 5.1 million people at any given time.
He said in an interview Tuesday that his staff is working with health care advocates to fix the previous plan, even as the state faces a multibillion-dollar budget deficit.
"Now we'll try again," Schwarzenegger said. "We will continue on, keeping the stakeholders together, fine-tuning it and seeing if we can improve on it since we have the time ...