Health care
7 tracked measures relating to health care, in 3 states.
Topic labels are applied by this site to group related measures. They are a navigation aid, not a legal classification, and they are not assigned by any state.
California
4 measures
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On the ballot
Proposition 3 would make permanent the higher personal income tax rates on high earners that voters approved as Proposition 30 in 2012 and extended through Proposition 55 in 2016. Those…
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On the ballot
Proposition 38 would authorize $8.4 billion in state general obligation bonds for research in immunology and immunotherapy — treatments that use the body's immune system to fight disease —…
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On the ballot
Proposition 40 would impose a one-time state tax of up to 5 percent on the covered assets of taxpayers holding more than $1 billion. Covered assets would include businesses, securities…
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On the ballot
Proposition 44 would require nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Centers — community clinics serving medically underserved areas — to spend at least 90 percent of their revenue on "program…
Colorado
1 measure
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On the ballot
This initiated statute would bar any health-care professional or other person in Colorado from knowingly performing, prescribing, administering, or providing surgery to a person under 18…
Nevada
2 measures
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Did not qualify
This proposed constitutional amendment would have established a right for Nevadans with life-altering diseases or conditions to access experimental treatments reviewed by an independent…
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On the ballot
Question 6 would add a right to abortion to the Nevada Constitution, protecting the procedure until fetal viability — generally estimated at about 24 weeks — and after viability when a…
About health care ballot measures
Health care measures cover who is eligible for public coverage, how insurers and providers are regulated, what a state may spend on medical programs, how drug prices are set or disclosed, and the scope of state public-health authority.
Coverage questions usually hinge on money and on federal approval. A measure may expand a program the state runs jointly with the federal government, in which case it may require a waiver or a state plan amendment before anything takes effect, and the state's share of the cost may be phased in over years. The measure page notes the funding source the state's own fiscal analysis identifies, where one has been published.
Regulatory questions — access to particular treatments, provider licensing, price transparency, medical decision-making — are usually statutory rather than constitutional, and often carve out narrow exceptions rather than restating general law. In those cases the exception is the whole measure, so the operative sentence is worth reading in full rather than in summary.
Wording, numbering, and certification status are set by each state and can change up to the printing of the ballot. Every summary above links to the records it was built from; where those records disagree with this page, the records govern. Confirm the final ballot text with your state or county election authority before you rely on it.