Revised Budget Boosts Medi-Cal, Addresses Teacher Pension Gap

Governor Jerry Brown's newly revised budget proposal has the state spending about $2 billion more than the plan he released in January. That includes a $1.2 billion increase for the state's Medi-Cal health care program, and a plan to begin addressing the looming $75 billion hole in the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS). But in this fiscally flush year, there's likely to be a lot of disagreement over whether Brown's new plan spends enough, and in the right places.