Potential complications await consumers as President Barack Obama's health care law approaches its second open enrollment season, just two months away.
The sales pitch for the health law is getting an overhaul for the fall.
The latest volley in the war over Proposition 45, the November ballot initiative to regulate health insurance rate hikes, is over intervenors who play an obscure role in the state's process for overseeing insurance.
In California, health insurance is already thoroughly regulated by the state.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress on Wednesday his agency is not getting the funding it needs to help consumers sift through new Obamacare requirements during next year's filing season.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law Wednesday morning to provide at least three days of paid sick leave annually to every worker in California, extending the benefit to some 6.5 million employees, or about 40 percent of California's workforce.