The California HealthCare Foundation is launching an ambitious program to study the state's major health economies, including the Sacramento region, as part of a broad analysis to better understand how local health systems respond to the needs of their communities. Understanding the dynamics of each market could have important implications as policymakers tinker with the health care system. The foundation, in cooperation with the Center for Studying Health System Change, released today the first in what is expected to be a series of reports that take stock of different characteristics in six key markets. "We have great variations in the way health care is financed and delivered in this state.