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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most eye-popping number, however, is the immense growth in property tax revenue -- well over 50 percent during the last decade alone and about 1,000 percent since 1978, when Proposition 13 was overwhelmingly passed by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature’s budget analyst, Mac Taylor, points out that “the property tax has grown faster than the economy” since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Personal income in California -- an approximate measure of the size of the state’s economy -- has grown at an average annual rate of 6.3 percent since 1979,” Taylor’s 2012 report says. “Over the same period, revenue from the 1 percent property tax rate has grown at an average annual rate of 7.3 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How is that possible?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Proposition 13 limits taxes on any particular piece of property as long as it remains under the same ownership, taxable values are upgraded when it changes hands. That, along with ever-rising market values, accounts for much of the steady increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big factor is new construction, both residential and commercial, added to the tax rolls as population increases. However it happens, property tax revenue keeps growing, currently by about $3 billion each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 13’s critics -- public employee unions and their political allies mostly -- have yearned for decades to repeal or modify it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Repeal would be a political impossibility; it remains very popular with voters, most of whom are homeowners and benefit from its limits. Critics, therefore, have tried to gain traction for a “split roll” that would eliminate the limits for commercial property, arguing that it changes hands less often than homes and its owners are getting an undeserved tax break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve also sought to change laws governing change of ownership, claiming -- with some justification -- that they allow property owners to manipulate the system and avoid tax value upgrades by creative structuring of deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One could argue, however, that Proposition 13 staved off what could have been a much larger tax revolt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had it not been enacted, and were local officials today using the same uncapped assessment practices and still taxing at the same rate as they did before 1978, property taxes would be three times as high, or about $200 billion a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would have been politically unsustainable, so some limit on property tax growth was inevitable. The Legislature had plenty of warning in the 1970s that a tax revolt was coming and ignored it, thus giving Howard Jarvis and other Proposition 13 proponents an opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Proposition 13 debate will continue, but arguing that it has undermined vital tax revenue is disingenuous, as the latest data prove.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a budget that proposes trillions of dollars in cuts to the social safety net and other domestic programs while sharply boosting military spending, a blueprint that elicited criticism from conservatives and moderates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GOP plan, authored by House Budget Committee Chairwoman Diane Black, R-Tenn., is critical to GOP hopes to deliver on one of President Trump's top priorities — a Republican-only effort to overhaul the tax code. Unclear, however, is whether GOP leaders can get the budget measure through the House. Conservatives want a larger package of spending cuts to accompany this fall's tax overhaul bill, while moderates are concerned cuts to programs such as food stamps could go too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black announced a committee vote for Wednesday, but action by the entire House could be delayed by the ongoing quarrel between the GOP's factions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medicare is the second-largest mandatory program after Social Security, and the House GOP plan again proposes to turn Medicare into a voucherlike program in which future retirees would receive a fixed benefit to purchase health insurance on the open market. Republicans have proposed the idea each year since taking back the House in 2011, but they've never tried to implement it — and that's not going to change now, even with a Republican as president. Trump opposes the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan, in theory at least, promises to balance the budget through unprecedented and politically unworkable cuts across the budget. It calls for turning this year's projected $700 billion or so deficit into a tiny $9 billion surplus by 2027. It would do so by slashing $5.4 trillion over the coming decade, including almost $500 billion from Medicare, $1.5 trillion from Medicaid and the Obama health law, along with sweeping cuts to benefits such as federal employee pensions, food stamps, and tax credits for the working poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There’s too much wasteful spending in Washington. Our \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/budget?src=hash\">#budget\u003c/a> calls for serious reforms to get 🇺🇸back on the right fiscal path. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/gSLeOcbiPr\">pic.twitter.com/gSLeOcbiPr\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Diane Black (@RepDianeBlack) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepDianeBlack/status/887388818302799872\">July 18, 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"The status quo is unsustainable. A mounting national debt and lackluster economic growth will limit opportunity for people all across the country,\" Black said. \"But we don't have to accept this reality. We can move forward with an optimistic vision for the future, and this budget is the first step in that process. This is the moment to get real results for the American people. The time for talking is over. Now is the time for action.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the immediate future the GOP measure is a budget buster. It would add almost $30 billion to Trump's $668 billion request for national defense, which already exceeds an existing \"cap\" on spending by $54 billion. But while Trump proposed taking that $54 billion from domestic agencies and foreign aid, the GOP budget plan would restore most of the cuts, trimming non-defense agencies by just $5 billion. And of the more than $4 trillion in promised saving from mandatory programs like Medicare and Medicaid, the plan assumes just $203 billion would actually pass this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats focused their fire on the plan's sweeping but nonbinding promises to cut from almost every corner of the budget, other than Social Security, defense and veterans' programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It embraces the worst extremes of the Trump budget, sacrificing nearly every investment that helps American families get ahead,\" said top Budget Committee Democrat John Yarmuth of Kentucky. \"It puts education, job training, transportation, medical research, and veterans' health care at risk — all investments that the American people overwhelmingly support.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, the GOP plan would spend about $67 billion more in the upcoming annual appropriations bills than would be allowed under harsh spending limits set by a failed 2011 budget and debt agreement and pads war accounts by $10 billion. And, like Trump's budget, the House GOP plan assumes rosy economic projections that would erase another $1.5 trillion from the deficit over 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget resolution is nonbinding. It would allow Republicans controlling Congress to pass follow-up legislation through the Senate without the threat of a filibuster by Democrats. GOP leaders and the White House plan to use that measure to rewrite the tax code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As proposed by House leaders, tax reform would essentially be deficit neutral, which means cuts to tax rates would be mostly \"paid for\" by closing various tax breaks such as the deduction for state and local taxes. However, the GOP plan would devote $300 billion claimed from economic growth to the tax reform effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But conservatives are insisting on adding cuts to so-called mandatory programs, which make up more than two-thirds of the federal budget and basically run on autopilot. 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"content": "\u003cp>On the heels of of the worst drought in California history, state officials are telling water users in the San Joaquin River basin to give up a major share of their water supplies—permanently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing, in some ways, couldn’t be worse for farmers who struggled through the drought. On the other hand, the time is right for imperiled salmon that live in the river and its tributaries. This iconic species may not survive the next drought without more water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”fBbypJgmO04AhEpifVrr0OHDv3Wdi73W”]The \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">State Water Resources Control Board \u003c/a>announced in September that it plans to return the San Joaquin River to 40 percent of its “unimpaired flow.” This means the amount of water that would naturally flow through the river without existing dams and diversions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal, according to the water board, is to rebalance water demand on the state’s second-largest river. Policy and practice have long favored human water consumption over water quality and wildlife like Chinook salmon, a species in a steep decline for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board plans a similar process for the Sacramento River, the state’s largest river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize this is very hard to do,” said Les Grober, the water board’s deputy director for water rights. “We just have to be smarter about how water is used overall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To reach the 40 percent goal on the San Joaquin River, hundreds of companies and individuals will have to give up a portion of their right to divert water from the river and three of its tributaries: the Tuolumne, Stanislaus and Merced rivers. The biggest water users are farms and irrigation districts, who use the water to grow crops like almonds, cherries, peaches, apples and tomatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1858489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1858489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493.jpg 1632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Joaquin River in January 2017 after persistent winter storms. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Major municipalities will also be affected, including San Francisco, which diverts water from the Tuolumne River.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The water board has the legal authority to take back water rights when public trust resources, like Chinook salmon populations, are threatened. But it has rarely exercised that authority, partly because to do so requires long and painful deliberations that are likely to result in litigation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">board’s process\u003c/span>\u003c/a> is effectively a water-quality action: The board is proclaiming that streamflows aren’t sufficient to keep water temperatures cold enough for salmon survival.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">In fact, the federal Clean Water Act requires the water board to review streamflows every three years to maintain healthy water quality. The state water board holds this responsibility under a custodial arrangement with the United States Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1858487\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1858487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muddy water in the river after high flows in January 2017. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">In the case of the San Joaquin River, the board is 20 years late reviewing streamflows: They have not been comprehensively updated since 1995. As part of the water quality plan it adopted that year, the water board also set a goal to double salmon populations, a target that has never been achieved.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Supporters of flow increases note that the San Joaquin River today is routinely far below the 40 percent target – sometimes near zero. In many of its reaches, the river becomes a series of stagnant pools for weeks or months at a time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“The board’s ability to revise water rights in order to rebalance the system and protect public interests is very powerful,” said Doug Obegi, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “Significantly more water is going to be required to achieve the salmon doubling goal.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The water board acknowledges that the 40 percent goal is a compromise. Recent studies have shown salmon actually need 60 percent, including a 2013 \u003cspan class=\"s2\">“\u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/deltaflow/final_rpt.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">flow criteria” report\u003c/span>\u003c/a> by the board itself, and analysis that same year by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">But Grober said 40 percent acknowledges that river flows must continue serving multiple purposes in the 21st century. So it has called for a range of 30–50 percent of unimpaired flow, with 40 percent as an interim target.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“If you were only considering protection of fish, you’d of course be at the upper end of that range,” Grober said. “The measure isn’t adopting an objective that provides absolute protection, but what is the number that reasonably protects fish and wildlife.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">To those who have to give up water, however, the number isn’t reasonable at all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“It will have enormous economic consequences,” said Jake Wenger, general manager of Modesto Irrigation District. “During a dry year, we would essentially have no water.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Wenger’s district serves about 100,000 acres of farmland with water diverted from the Tuolumne River. It stores much of that water in Don Pedro Reservoir, which it owns jointly with Turlock Irrigation District and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The water board has received more than 20,000 comment letters from supporters and opponents of the flow increase measure. While many of these are form letters generated by interest groups, Grober said “thousands” are unique letters sent by individuals.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The water board staff is in the process of reviewing all these comments, and will then prepare a revised proposal for the board to vote on by the end of this year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Modesto and Turlock irrigation districts estimate the streamflow revisions could cost their region $\u003cspan class=\"caps\">1.6\u003c/span> billion in economic output. They launched a website, \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"https://worthyourfight.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">WorthYourFight.org\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, to rally support for their cause.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Wenger is critical of the state’s proposal, he said, because it requires the 40 percent unimpaired flow target to be met continuously between February and June of every year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“That means you’re putting a lot of water downstream when fish are not present,” he said. “Whereas the state’s plan is sort of a shotgun approach, we’re proposing a sniper approach.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Wenger says his district is willing to give up some water for what he calls “functional flows.” This means releasing water for instream habitat when monitoring shows salmon are actually present in the river. This ensures the water will be there when fish need it for migrating and spawning, and won’t require farmers and others to give up so much water.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission supports this approach, as well. The agency delivers water not just to San Franciscans, but also as a wholesaler to several other Bay Area cities. This water comes from Sierra snowmelt in the Tuolumne River that is stored in Hetch Hetchy and Don Pedro reservoirs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Steve Ritchie, the commission’s assistant general manager for water, said the hit to his agency could be even worse than the water board has estimated because of contract language between San Francisco and the Turlock and Modesto Irrigation districts. The contract, which involves their partnership to operate Don Pedro Reservoir, may require San Francisco to absorb 52 percent of any required streamflow increases.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As a result, Ritchie said San Francisco could be required to build 900,000 acre-feet of new water storage to make up for the proposed streamflow losses. To put that in perspective, 900,000 acre-feet is nearly triple the capacity of its existing Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">It could also require the city to impose conservation measures “that we just wouldn’t be able to achieve,” Ritchie said. That’s because San Franciscans are already the state’s water conservation leaders. Their daily water consumption during the drought fell to just 41 gallons per person, the lowest in the state.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“How low can you go when you are the lowest? It’s a real issue when you are already that efficient,” Ritchie said. “We would have to generate some new water.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">San Francisco says “functional flows” would ease the pain by ordering more water only when and where needed, not all the time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“We know we have to give up some water,” Ritchie said. “But the state board proposal really doesn’t work for us.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Grober counters that the state’s proposal accomplishes something similar. By phrasing the flow increases as a percentage of unimpaired flow, it is naturally flexible. Water users would be required to give up a percentage that varies according to the season and according to the presence or absence of drought.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Obegi, the environmental attorney, notes that continuous flow increases over a period of months is important because more than salmon need that water. More flow boosts the food chain, helping to breed aquatic insects that salmon and other species depend on, and it sustains plants that create vital riparian shade in the scorching San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“Rather than prescribing specific flows for all different times and places, it’s really providing a budget of water – an account of water that can be used to best provide the benefits to fish and wildlife,” Grober said. “We’re not locked into a set flow objective.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Adjusting water rights in the traditional manner requires the board to start a complicated adjudication process. This is similar to a court proceeding in which the board functions like a panel of judges, hearing testimony as water users summon witnesses.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">It is tedious and time consuming: Resolving all the water rights to increase streamflow could take years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">In hopes of a faster result, Grober said the state is “vigorously” encouraging water users to offer settlements as an alternative to simply taking back water rights.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">A settlement would make streamflow improvements happen much faster. Water users would voluntarily enter into a binding agreement to give up some lesser amount of water in addition to making other habitat improvements, such as controlling invasive species and restoring streambed spawning gravels.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">To push the process along, the state brought in a high-powered mediator: Bruce Babbitt, the former \u003cspan class=\"caps\">U.S.\u003c/span> Interior Department secretary under President Clinton. Babbitt has been holding a series of closed-door meetings among the parties in hopes of reaching settlements between water users, environmental groups and state officials.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Participants were required to sign a confidentiality agreement, so little information is available about how the talks are proceeding. But word is that the parties remain far apart.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Some environmental groups, for example, view the state’s 40 percent unimpaired flow target as a starting point, and they want to see an even higher number in any negotiated settlement. Water users, of course, want less than 40 percent – a lot less, in some cases.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">If they can’t reach a settlement, the water board is expected to adopt a new flow requirement by the end of this year. Then it would move into an adjudication process to actually begin amending water rights to make the flow increases happen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">This is likely to bring separate lawsuits from water users, which would further delay any streamflow improvements.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"fin\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“Essentially, you have this piano hanging over your head with someone waiting to cut the string,” said Wenger. “We have a lot of hope that we can move these settlement talks along.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"fin\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article originally appeared on \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=9e4bb0e1a7d74f24ba4684ef2533053d&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newsdeeply.com%2fwater\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Water Deeply\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and you can find it \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2017/07/17/battle-looms-as-california-moves-to-dedicate-more-water-to-fish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On the heels of of the worst drought in California history, state officials are telling water users in the San Joaquin River basin to give up a major share of their water supplies—permanently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing, in some ways, couldn’t be worse for farmers who struggled through the drought. On the other hand, the time is right for imperiled salmon that live in the river and its tributaries. This iconic species may not survive the next drought without more water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">State Water Resources Control Board \u003c/a>announced in September that it plans to return the San Joaquin River to 40 percent of its “unimpaired flow.” This means the amount of water that would naturally flow through the river without existing dams and diversions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal, according to the water board, is to rebalance water demand on the state’s second-largest river. Policy and practice have long favored human water consumption over water quality and wildlife like Chinook salmon, a species in a steep decline for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board plans a similar process for the Sacramento River, the state’s largest river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize this is very hard to do,” said Les Grober, the water board’s deputy director for water rights. “We just have to be smarter about how water is used overall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To reach the 40 percent goal on the San Joaquin River, hundreds of companies and individuals will have to give up a portion of their right to divert water from the river and three of its tributaries: the Tuolumne, Stanislaus and Merced rivers. The biggest water users are farms and irrigation districts, who use the water to grow crops like almonds, cherries, peaches, apples and tomatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1858489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1858489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493.jpg 1632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6493-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Joaquin River in January 2017 after persistent winter storms. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Major municipalities will also be affected, including San Francisco, which diverts water from the Tuolumne River.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The water board has the legal authority to take back water rights when public trust resources, like Chinook salmon populations, are threatened. But it has rarely exercised that authority, partly because to do so requires long and painful deliberations that are likely to result in litigation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">board’s process\u003c/span>\u003c/a> is effectively a water-quality action: The board is proclaiming that streamflows aren’t sufficient to keep water temperatures cold enough for salmon survival.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">In fact, the federal Clean Water Act requires the water board to review streamflows every three years to maintain healthy water quality. The state water board holds this responsibility under a custodial arrangement with the United States Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1858487\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1858487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_6498.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muddy water in the river after high flows in January 2017. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">In the case of the San Joaquin River, the board is 20 years late reviewing streamflows: They have not been comprehensively updated since 1995. As part of the water quality plan it adopted that year, the water board also set a goal to double salmon populations, a target that has never been achieved.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Supporters of flow increases note that the San Joaquin River today is routinely far below the 40 percent target – sometimes near zero. In many of its reaches, the river becomes a series of stagnant pools for weeks or months at a time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“The board’s ability to revise water rights in order to rebalance the system and protect public interests is very powerful,” said Doug Obegi, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “Significantly more water is going to be required to achieve the salmon doubling goal.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The water board acknowledges that the 40 percent goal is a compromise. Recent studies have shown salmon actually need 60 percent, including a 2013 \u003cspan class=\"s2\">“\u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/deltaflow/final_rpt.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">flow criteria” report\u003c/span>\u003c/a> by the board itself, and analysis that same year by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">But Grober said 40 percent acknowledges that river flows must continue serving multiple purposes in the 21st century. So it has called for a range of 30–50 percent of unimpaired flow, with 40 percent as an interim target.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“If you were only considering protection of fish, you’d of course be at the upper end of that range,” Grober said. “The measure isn’t adopting an objective that provides absolute protection, but what is the number that reasonably protects fish and wildlife.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">To those who have to give up water, however, the number isn’t reasonable at all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“It will have enormous economic consequences,” said Jake Wenger, general manager of Modesto Irrigation District. “During a dry year, we would essentially have no water.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Wenger’s district serves about 100,000 acres of farmland with water diverted from the Tuolumne River. It stores much of that water in Don Pedro Reservoir, which it owns jointly with Turlock Irrigation District and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The water board has received more than 20,000 comment letters from supporters and opponents of the flow increase measure. While many of these are form letters generated by interest groups, Grober said “thousands” are unique letters sent by individuals.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The water board staff is in the process of reviewing all these comments, and will then prepare a revised proposal for the board to vote on by the end of this year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Modesto and Turlock irrigation districts estimate the streamflow revisions could cost their region $\u003cspan class=\"caps\">1.6\u003c/span> billion in economic output. They launched a website, \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"https://worthyourfight.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">WorthYourFight.org\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, to rally support for their cause.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Wenger is critical of the state’s proposal, he said, because it requires the 40 percent unimpaired flow target to be met continuously between February and June of every year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“That means you’re putting a lot of water downstream when fish are not present,” he said. “Whereas the state’s plan is sort of a shotgun approach, we’re proposing a sniper approach.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Wenger says his district is willing to give up some water for what he calls “functional flows.” This means releasing water for instream habitat when monitoring shows salmon are actually present in the river. This ensures the water will be there when fish need it for migrating and spawning, and won’t require farmers and others to give up so much water.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission supports this approach, as well. The agency delivers water not just to San Franciscans, but also as a wholesaler to several other Bay Area cities. This water comes from Sierra snowmelt in the Tuolumne River that is stored in Hetch Hetchy and Don Pedro reservoirs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Steve Ritchie, the commission’s assistant general manager for water, said the hit to his agency could be even worse than the water board has estimated because of contract language between San Francisco and the Turlock and Modesto Irrigation districts. The contract, which involves their partnership to operate Don Pedro Reservoir, may require San Francisco to absorb 52 percent of any required streamflow increases.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As a result, Ritchie said San Francisco could be required to build 900,000 acre-feet of new water storage to make up for the proposed streamflow losses. To put that in perspective, 900,000 acre-feet is nearly triple the capacity of its existing Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">It could also require the city to impose conservation measures “that we just wouldn’t be able to achieve,” Ritchie said. That’s because San Franciscans are already the state’s water conservation leaders. Their daily water consumption during the drought fell to just 41 gallons per person, the lowest in the state.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“How low can you go when you are the lowest? 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Water users would be required to give up a percentage that varies according to the season and according to the presence or absence of drought.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Obegi, the environmental attorney, notes that continuous flow increases over a period of months is important because more than salmon need that water. More flow boosts the food chain, helping to breed aquatic insects that salmon and other species depend on, and it sustains plants that create vital riparian shade in the scorching San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“Rather than prescribing specific flows for all different times and places, it’s really providing a budget of water – an account of water that can be used to best provide the benefits to fish and wildlife,” Grober said. “We’re not locked into a set flow objective.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Adjusting water rights in the traditional manner requires the board to start a complicated adjudication process. This is similar to a court proceeding in which the board functions like a panel of judges, hearing testimony as water users summon witnesses.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">It is tedious and time consuming: Resolving all the water rights to increase streamflow could take years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">In hopes of a faster result, Grober said the state is “vigorously” encouraging water users to offer settlements as an alternative to simply taking back water rights.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">A settlement would make streamflow improvements happen much faster. Water users would voluntarily enter into a binding agreement to give up some lesser amount of water in addition to making other habitat improvements, such as controlling invasive species and restoring streambed spawning gravels.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">To push the process along, the state brought in a high-powered mediator: Bruce Babbitt, the former \u003cspan class=\"caps\">U.S.\u003c/span> Interior Department secretary under President Clinton. Babbitt has been holding a series of closed-door meetings among the parties in hopes of reaching settlements between water users, environmental groups and state officials.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Participants were required to sign a confidentiality agreement, so little information is available about how the talks are proceeding. But word is that the parties remain far apart.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Some environmental groups, for example, view the state’s 40 percent unimpaired flow target as a starting point, and they want to see an even higher number in any negotiated settlement. Water users, of course, want less than 40 percent – a lot less, in some cases.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">If they can’t reach a settlement, the water board is expected to adopt a new flow requirement by the end of this year. 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"content": "\u003cp>Dr. Lloyd Minor is frustrated. As dean of Stanford University Medical School, he says he can handle the constant cascade of large-scale challenges that come with his job. But what flummoxes him — drives him crazy, in fact — is something that occurs on a much smaller scale every time he examines someone in his clinical practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minor cannot get the electronic health record, which provides a medical history of each patient, to work the way he wants. So he spends too much time wrestling with the computer and not enough directly communicating with his patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There is nothing more frustrating to a patient than talking to their doctor, wanting advice, and that provider is typing away and looking at a computer screen instead of the patient.' \u003ccite>Stanford medical school Dean Lloyd Minor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There is nothing more frustrating to a patient than talking to their doctor, wanting advice, and that provider is typing away and looking at a computer screen instead of the patient,\" Minor says. \"That most fundamental aspect of human communication, which is eye contact, now is being robbed from the medical encounter because of the electronic health record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says EHRs now function primarily as documentation for billing and quality reporting rather than as an aid to doctors. Given their cumbersome nature, the EHR, long touted as a way to dramatically improve patient care, often does just the opposite, Minor believes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a provider, you’re thinking about what do I need to document, or how do I navigate the EHR system, not how do I assimilate this information to provide the best care advice to the patient,\" he says. \"You’re thinking about the mechanics of the documentation, rather than the implications of the symptoms and findings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Data Entry or Medicine?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many physicians are fed up with the amount of documentation required in EHRs. Many feel they spend more time as data-entry clerks than as doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"iCL76xAqQztIVtwiKb3Jdka9M3FawwGC\"]Studies bear that out. Only 27 percent of a doctor’s time is spent with patients — and nearly half is spent on EHR and desk work, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://annals.org/aim/article/2546704/allocation-physician-time-ambulatory-practice-time-motion-study-4-specialties\">2016 study\u003c/a> published in \u003cem>Annals of Internal Medicine\u003c/em>. The study looked at physicians in family practice, internal medicine, cardiology and orthopedics. A smaller\u003ca href=\"http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/36/4/655.abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> study\u003c/a> published in April by \u003cem>Health Affairs, \u003c/em>focusing on primary care physicians, also found about a 50-50 split in direct patient care time versus desktop medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When doctors do spend time in the exam room with patients, they spent 37 percent of that time looking at the computer, the 2016 study estimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not just recording the patient's medical information that takes up time, according to Dr. Albert Chan, a family practice physician and the chief of digital patient experience for the Sutter Health Network. Doctors now need to report a series of quality measurements, provide proper insurance coding, and introduce more legalistic wording into the EHR to prevent lawsuits, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s so much required paperwork and documentation now that primary care physicians spend an estimated one to two hours every night after work finishing up their data entry on EHRs, the study in \u003cem>Annals of Internal Medicine\u003c/em> found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the business, that’s called \"pajama time.\" In the real world, it's called one reason for burnout. Fifty-four \u003ca href=\"http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)00716-8/abstract\">percent of physicians\u003c/a> reported at least one symptom of burnout, according to a recent Mayo Clinic study. A separate Mayo study found that a higher risk of burnout was \u003ca href=\"http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(16)30215-4/abstract\">linked\u003c/a> to frustrations with the data-entry workload of EHRs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Powerful Tool\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Affordable Care Act and the 2009 \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/HITECH-act-enforcement-interim-final-rule/index.html\">HITECH Act\u003c/a> required electronic health records to be incorporated into medical practices, Dr. Chan says, many medical groups and physicians rushed to install EHR systems. That means the search function may not work well, or the system may require multiple keystrokes and screens to accomplish common tasks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Eric Helsher, vice president of client success at Epic, one of the leading EHR providers, responded that customer feedback \"drives our continuous development, with the aim of making the software a joy to use, helping them get value from their data, and facilitating collaboration across the Epic community.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I remember back in the old days of paper medical records … not being able to find a patient’s chart was just maddening. We don’t have that anymore.'\u003ccite>Dr. Albert Chan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But, Chan says, as flawed as the EHR is, it would be wise not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to note that the EHR is an incredibly powerful tool,” he says. “There are tremendous things you can do with the EHR. You can automatically alert patients about their conditions, for example; you can personalize their care. The lesson I’ve learned is that the EHR requires work to make it work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan says he would never want to go back to the paper-only era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember back in the old days of paper medical records ... not being able to find a patient’s chart was just maddening. We don’t have that anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Interoperability Problem\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current design problems can be corrected over time by EHR system vendors, Chan says, and he expects the furor over EHRs to dissipate as annoying and time-consuming glitches are altered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the big complaints doctors have had is the lack of interoperability between EHR systems, so that hospitals, medical groups, insurers and physicians can't easily share patient data with each other. In the San Francisco Bay Area, some sharing is now starting to occur among institutions like Sutter Health, Kaiser, UCSF and Stanford that all that use the EHR system Epic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re starting to see fruits of our labor to connect data,” Chan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that may be a glass-half-full view, according to Will Ross, a project manager at Redwood MedNet, a nonprofit health information exchange based in Ukiah. Ross has been working on trying to improve the interoperability of EHRs for two decades, and says the progress has been plodding, to say the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross says EHRs took a turn for the worse after Congress tried to get physicians to prove they were meaningfully using them in the HITECH Act of 2009. Those rules, which he calls arbitrary, made the whole process much more complex and time-consuming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b\">“That transformed all of this into busy work and nonsense,” Ross says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The obvious solution is for vendors to improve their products, he says. But that’s easier proposed than accomplished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the EHRs are cash cows to their owners,” Ross says. “They make their money on installing them, not changing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the complex problems of interoperability and ease of use were magically solved today, physicians would still be overloaded by reporting requirements, Ross says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Documentation is still there, so blaming the computer for what insurers and the government are requiring you to do is misplacing the blame.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large organizations such as Kaiser and Sutter Health have tackled some of the ease-of-use problems of the EHR, according to David Lansky, executive director of the Pacific Business Group on Health, a nonprofit consortium of private businesses and public agencies. That’s not so easy for smaller practices to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In big medical groups, the burden on the individual doctor using EHR is lower already, it’s easier,” Lansky says. “But small-group practices and individuals have the same administrative burden as the large-group practices.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lansky’s organization is encouraging smaller groups to join provider contracting networks — niche companies that will help them track patients, install reminder systems, streamline quality reporting and connect with health information exchanges — so smaller practices are not trying to solve the problem themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">He says the idea is to get doctors to use their skills and training properly. “We have this cult of the physician, and we pay a lot of money to train them,” Lansky says, “yet they’re being asked to do work others can do very well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That rings true for Stanford medical school's Dean Minor. He’s sick of scrolling down page by page; sick of checking off a million little boxes. All the time spent on medical documentation cuts down on physician efficiency, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If doctors are working so many extra hours entering data, they’re likely to cut down on their patient load to make up for it. That means they make less money, and the quality of patient visits continues to decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It negatively impacts patient care, that’s the main thing,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post had been edited.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Data Entry or Medicine?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many physicians are fed up with the amount of documentation required in EHRs. Many feel they spend more time as data-entry clerks than as doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Studies bear that out. Only 27 percent of a doctor’s time is spent with patients — and nearly half is spent on EHR and desk work, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://annals.org/aim/article/2546704/allocation-physician-time-ambulatory-practice-time-motion-study-4-specialties\">2016 study\u003c/a> published in \u003cem>Annals of Internal Medicine\u003c/em>. The study looked at physicians in family practice, internal medicine, cardiology and orthopedics. A smaller\u003ca href=\"http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/36/4/655.abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> study\u003c/a> published in April by \u003cem>Health Affairs, \u003c/em>focusing on primary care physicians, also found about a 50-50 split in direct patient care time versus desktop medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When doctors do spend time in the exam room with patients, they spent 37 percent of that time looking at the computer, the 2016 study estimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not just recording the patient's medical information that takes up time, according to Dr. Albert Chan, a family practice physician and the chief of digital patient experience for the Sutter Health Network. Doctors now need to report a series of quality measurements, provide proper insurance coding, and introduce more legalistic wording into the EHR to prevent lawsuits, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s so much required paperwork and documentation now that primary care physicians spend an estimated one to two hours every night after work finishing up their data entry on EHRs, the study in \u003cem>Annals of Internal Medicine\u003c/em> found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the business, that’s called \"pajama time.\" In the real world, it's called one reason for burnout. Fifty-four \u003ca href=\"http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)00716-8/abstract\">percent of physicians\u003c/a> reported at least one symptom of burnout, according to a recent Mayo Clinic study. A separate Mayo study found that a higher risk of burnout was \u003ca href=\"http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(16)30215-4/abstract\">linked\u003c/a> to frustrations with the data-entry workload of EHRs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Powerful Tool\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Affordable Care Act and the 2009 \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/HITECH-act-enforcement-interim-final-rule/index.html\">HITECH Act\u003c/a> required electronic health records to be incorporated into medical practices, Dr. Chan says, many medical groups and physicians rushed to install EHR systems. That means the search function may not work well, or the system may require multiple keystrokes and screens to accomplish common tasks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Eric Helsher, vice president of client success at Epic, one of the leading EHR providers, responded that customer feedback \"drives our continuous development, with the aim of making the software a joy to use, helping them get value from their data, and facilitating collaboration across the Epic community.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I remember back in the old days of paper medical records … not being able to find a patient’s chart was just maddening. We don’t have that anymore.'\u003ccite>Dr. Albert Chan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But, Chan says, as flawed as the EHR is, it would be wise not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to note that the EHR is an incredibly powerful tool,” he says. “There are tremendous things you can do with the EHR. You can automatically alert patients about their conditions, for example; you can personalize their care. The lesson I’ve learned is that the EHR requires work to make it work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan says he would never want to go back to the paper-only era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember back in the old days of paper medical records ... not being able to find a patient’s chart was just maddening. We don’t have that anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Interoperability Problem\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current design problems can be corrected over time by EHR system vendors, Chan says, and he expects the furor over EHRs to dissipate as annoying and time-consuming glitches are altered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the big complaints doctors have had is the lack of interoperability between EHR systems, so that hospitals, medical groups, insurers and physicians can't easily share patient data with each other. In the San Francisco Bay Area, some sharing is now starting to occur among institutions like Sutter Health, Kaiser, UCSF and Stanford that all that use the EHR system Epic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re starting to see fruits of our labor to connect data,” Chan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that may be a glass-half-full view, according to Will Ross, a project manager at Redwood MedNet, a nonprofit health information exchange based in Ukiah. Ross has been working on trying to improve the interoperability of EHRs for two decades, and says the progress has been plodding, to say the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross says EHRs took a turn for the worse after Congress tried to get physicians to prove they were meaningfully using them in the HITECH Act of 2009. 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Two more GOP senators — \u003ca href=\"https://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=press-releases&id=988195A6-7C42-4878-A59F-3FA344D170C9\">Mike Lee\u003c/a> of Utah and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JerryMoran/status/887108026246803456\">Jerry Moran\u003c/a> of Kansas — came out in opposition to the bill, which means it cannot get enough support to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My colleague \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee\">@SenMikeLee\u003c/a> and I will not support the MTP to this version of BCRA. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/HealthcareBill?src=hash\">#HealthcareBill\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Jerry Moran (@JerryMoran) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JerryMoran/status/887107267824406528\">July 18, 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Shortly afterward, President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/887134287350439936\">wrote\u003c/a>, “Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/887134287350439936\">July 18, 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put out a statement promising to do just that, pointing to a 2015 bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Barack Obama. It would repeal the ACA with a two-year delay, giving a fixed deadline for Congress to replace the law. 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The Congressional Budget Office has not yet given its estimates on the impact of the latest Senate bill, but estimates on an earlier version showed the reductions in Medicaid coverage would have meant 15 million fewer Americans would have coverage under the program in 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to paralyzing the GOP on its top political pledge for the better part of a decade, stalling on the health care bill could tie up the rest of the party’s agenda, including efforts at major tax reform. The health care bill has dominated work on Capitol Hill for the first six months of Trump’s term, typically the most potent period for an administration to move legislation, which is also the first period in a decade when the GOP has controlled both chambers of Congress and the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday Trump said he was deeply “disappointed” by the collapse of the GOP effort to rewrite Obama’s health care law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump told reporters during a lunch with service members that Republicans have been talking for years about repealing and replacing “Obamacare,” and is disappointed they couldn’t deliver. He said it’s time to “Let Obamacare fail,” and says that “I’m not going to own it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said letting Obamacare fail will encourage Democrats to come to the table and negotiate. 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Her students have also been introduced to an array of social tech tools; some of the group’s favorite are FaceTime and Skype for video chatting and Messenger for sharing photos. Many in the group use their iPads to tune in the radio or podcasts, and one has \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/MJofSanFran\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">her own YouTube channel\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The last few classes have been devoted to iPad photography, so today everyone is editing their best shots. In one corner, Marilyn Chan and Shirley Smith keep leaning over to see what’s happening on each other’s screens. Chan is polishing up a selfie of the two of them making the most of Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day. Across the room, Linda Rospendowski, 68, is contemplating a photo of herself in a hot pink dress. But she has a problem: The photographer has chopped off the top of her head, and she's wondering if you can digitally repair hair. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“The bouffant—it has to be there,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>America: Getting Old\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As baby boomers head into their 60s and 70s, advocacy groups are now exploring the benefits of this kind of tech education for seniors. Prime candidates are elderly people who live in rural areas, are estranged or live far from family, or have health or mobility problems that make it difficult to get around.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_414753\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 386px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-414753 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Rospendowski, 68, and Orazgul Tachmuradova, 71, work on editing their photos. \u003ccite>(Kara Platoni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Lisa Marsh Ryerson, president of the AARP Foundation, a charitable affiliate of the advocacy group for seniors, points out that 10,000 Americans turn 65 every day. But despite their numbers, baby boomers don’t always feel like they’re aging together. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“As many as 40 percent of adults who are 65 or older say that they experience significant loneliness,” says Ryerson.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Loneliness isn’t quite the same thing as being alone, but both can influence health. “Loneliness is something that is subjective. It’s our own perception of our experiences,” says Ryerson. It is also one measure of distress. Isolation, on the other hand, is an objective metric, “based on the size of someone’s social network, the frequency of contact with their social network and their access to services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">[contextly_sidebar id=\"pJzqgRcGnSSnAs2omLf83MRF0ZoTRCKk\"]Isolation can cause health problems even for a person who feels perfectly satisfied with a small or distant network. (Imagine not knowing anyone nearby who can check on you when you’re ill.) Ryerson says isolation is often triggered by loss of hearing or mobility, a move to a new community or a partner’s death, and it’s especially common among those who are low-income or identify as a member of a marginalized group.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">To address the problem, the AARP Foundation recently launched \u003ca href=\"https://connect2affect.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Connect2Affect\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a resource portal for older adults and caregivers that encourages online engagement, and includes a \u003ca href=\"https://connect2affect.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/A-Profile-of-Social-Connectedness.pdf\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">study of social connectedness among people over age 62\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://aarptek.aarp.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">AARP Academy\u003c/span>\u003c/a> also offers free online tutorials for using smartphones, tablets or social media, and for conducting job searches on the internet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, the National Council on Aging completed its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncoa.org/healthy-aging/aging-mastery-program/\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">two-year tablet program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, similar to Curry’s. The result? “The more time [participants] were spending on the tablets, the stronger their social interactions, their emotional support, self-esteem,” says \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s4\">Susan Stiles, senior director of product development and strategy for the group. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Getting Seniors Connected\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Yet enticing people online isn’t always easy. According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/05/17/technology-use-among-seniors/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">study \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"s2\">released in May by the Pew Research Center\u003c/span>, while mobile device use is climbing among seniors, still only about a third own a tablet, 42 percent own smartphones, and just over half have broadband at home. Only about a third use social media.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“There were some fears going into the project,” says Stiles of the NCOA program. “People did not necessarily think that a tablet computer had any relevancy for their lives. They had privacy concerns and were afraid of potentially being exposed to scams.” (Ditto the Curry class, where people asked pointed questions about putting credit card information on their iPad and worried about being unfairly charged when ordering photo prints online.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">For the NCOA program, the trick was helping users find their personal killer app. For a former taxi driver now in his 90s, it was Google Maps. Stiles recalls a colleague asking the man to name some streets on his old route. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“She zoomed in on these streets and his eyes just lit up, \" Stiles says. \"And then he wanted to go everywhere in New York City.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">For a former B-movie actress, the most alluring app was YouTube, where she found her old film clips.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Tablets seem to be a nice middle ground for those who are skeptical of full-sized computers. You can use voice commands instead of struggling with a mouse or keyboard; they fit neatly into a small living space like a senior apartment; and you can use them while sitting in your favorite comfy chair. “It doesn't feel like this weighty technology object,” says Stiles. “It really feels like a book.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Designing for Seniors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Pittsburgh-based Breezie, which sells tech solutions for seniors and \u003ca href=\"https://www.breezie.com/breezie-in-action/breezie-brings-online-benefits-to-seniors-in-florida/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">partnered with the NCOA on its program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, is trying to make Android-based devices even easier for new users by offering a service that simplifies a tablet’s interface. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“If you went right now to a Best Buy and if you bought a tablet to give to a senior, there are 43 different settings you would want to change before you make it senior-friendly,”\u003cb> \u003c/b>says CEO and founder Jeh Kazimi. He means things that Breezie can pre-adjust, like brightness and volume, consolidating logins, and making the screen more forgiving if you accidentally put your thumb on it. The company is also trying to develop a way to cancel out hand tremor for people with Parkinson's disease, because uneven pressure can make the tablet think a user is swiping when they mean to click.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_415056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-415056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1020x804.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1020x804.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-800x631.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-768x605.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1180x930.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-960x757.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-240x189.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-375x296.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-520x410.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaycee Springer, 65, polishes up her photo of the sun setting over San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Kara Platoni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Caregivers or Breezie staff can also curate each person’s desktop, like providing ready-made YouTube playlists for fans of jazz music or Muhammad Ali’s boxing matches. For an avid gardener, Kazimi says, they might install a few outdoorsy apps “that don’t show you ads every two minutes or ask you to upgrade every three minutes.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">But tablets aren’t a foolproof platform. Kazimi has seen seniors who need stickers to label the camera, volume and charging socket, because the devices can suddenly flip screen orientation, leaving confused people holding them upside down and wondering where the buttons are. Di Martino encountered some unexpected hurdles, too, “like a couple of the men in the class didn't know how to type.” She helped get people comfortable with the touchscreen by offering styluses, which are more accurate pointing tools than fingers. And she encouraged her students to feel OK about making mistakes. “Sometimes I tell them, ‘I don’t know what that button does. Let’s hit it,’” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Dip in Loneliness\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The seniors in the Curry program report different feelings about living alone—for example, Kaycee Springer enjoys it and is content using video chat to keep in touch with her daughters long-distance. But she does feel a bit socially crimped in the Tenderloin, where it doesn't always seem safe to walk around, especially at night. And she knows some of her elderly neighbors are extremely withdrawn. “There are people in my building, they just lay around and do absolutely nothing,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Di Martino has put together some preliminary stats from surveying participants at the program’s 6-month point. Almost all of the seniors said they used their iPad daily. As with the NCOA program, she noted a slight dip in reported loneliness. But the leaders of both projects say it’s hard to know if that stems from people making friends in class or becoming more social online. The AARP’s Ryerson says you might as well encourage both, so that technological and real-world connections reinforce each other. For example, she says, “FitBits are about taking steps. So let’s walk together.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">At the Curry Center, one other result is very clear: Now that the class is ending, nobody wants to give up their iPads. \"We just started!” exclaims Tachmuradova.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Springer still finds her tablet hard to put down: “I will put it on my bed—and then I will go, ‘\u003ci>It’s calling me\u003c/i>.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Di Martino says not to worry—they’re looking into a second phase that will allow everyone to keep their tablets, perhaps in exchange for peer mentoring the next round of students. Now that she’s taught them every iPad trick she knows, their new challenge will be teaching each other. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The iPad is like a \u003cem>genie\u003c/em>,” she says. She mimes pressing a button: “Hello, Siri? Tell me this one!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Tachmuradova and Siri started conversing during a year-long pilot project, now coming to an end, at San Francisco’s \u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ca href=\"http://curryseniorcenter.org\">Curry Senior Center\u003c/a>. Seventeen s\u003c/span>eniors were given iPads, FitBits and digital scales to monitor their health, and to reduce isolation by teaching them how to socialize, learn and enjoy themselves online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> “When I started this program, I was reborn,” says Tachmuradova. “I am becoming alive! More and more now, we are busy. I don’t feel I am alone. I live alone without \u003ci>being\u003c/i> alone.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">All of the program’s seniors live alone, and most are very low-income.\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“Some people felt isolated, technologically-wise, because they didn't know what other people were doing on the internet,” says Angela Di Martino, who teaches the weekly class on how to use the devices. “Now I think they feel a lot more comfortable because they have that knowledge.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I live alone without \u003ci>being\u003c/i> alone.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Di Martino devoted early lessons to finding trustworthy medical information on the web, emailing your doctor and checking lab results online. Her students have also been introduced to an array of social tech tools; some of the group’s favorite are FaceTime and Skype for video chatting and Messenger for sharing photos. Many in the group use their iPads to tune in the radio or podcasts, and one has \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/MJofSanFran\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">her own YouTube channel\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The last few classes have been devoted to iPad photography, so today everyone is editing their best shots. In one corner, Marilyn Chan and Shirley Smith keep leaning over to see what’s happening on each other’s screens. Chan is polishing up a selfie of the two of them making the most of Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day. Across the room, Linda Rospendowski, 68, is contemplating a photo of herself in a hot pink dress. But she has a problem: The photographer has chopped off the top of her head, and she's wondering if you can digitally repair hair. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“The bouffant—it has to be there,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>America: Getting Old\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As baby boomers head into their 60s and 70s, advocacy groups are now exploring the benefits of this kind of tech education for seniors. Prime candidates are elderly people who live in rural areas, are estranged or live far from family, or have health or mobility problems that make it difficult to get around.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_414753\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 386px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-414753 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS1_Platoni-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Rospendowski, 68, and Orazgul Tachmuradova, 71, work on editing their photos. \u003ccite>(Kara Platoni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Lisa Marsh Ryerson, president of the AARP Foundation, a charitable affiliate of the advocacy group for seniors, points out that 10,000 Americans turn 65 every day. But despite their numbers, baby boomers don’t always feel like they’re aging together. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“As many as 40 percent of adults who are 65 or older say that they experience significant loneliness,” says Ryerson.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Loneliness isn’t quite the same thing as being alone, but both can influence health. “Loneliness is something that is subjective. It’s our own perception of our experiences,” says Ryerson. It is also one measure of distress. Isolation, on the other hand, is an objective metric, “based on the size of someone’s social network, the frequency of contact with their social network and their access to services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Isolation can cause health problems even for a person who feels perfectly satisfied with a small or distant network. (Imagine not knowing anyone nearby who can check on you when you’re ill.) Ryerson says isolation is often triggered by loss of hearing or mobility, a move to a new community or a partner’s death, and it’s especially common among those who are low-income or identify as a member of a marginalized group.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">To address the problem, the AARP Foundation recently launched \u003ca href=\"https://connect2affect.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Connect2Affect\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a resource portal for older adults and caregivers that encourages online engagement, and includes a \u003ca href=\"https://connect2affect.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/A-Profile-of-Social-Connectedness.pdf\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">study of social connectedness among people over age 62\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://aarptek.aarp.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">AARP Academy\u003c/span>\u003c/a> also offers free online tutorials for using smartphones, tablets or social media, and for conducting job searches on the internet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, the National Council on Aging completed its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncoa.org/healthy-aging/aging-mastery-program/\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">two-year tablet program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, similar to Curry’s. The result? “The more time [participants] were spending on the tablets, the stronger their social interactions, their emotional support, self-esteem,” says \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s4\">Susan Stiles, senior director of product development and strategy for the group. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Getting Seniors Connected\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Yet enticing people online isn’t always easy. According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/05/17/technology-use-among-seniors/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">study \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"s2\">released in May by the Pew Research Center\u003c/span>, while mobile device use is climbing among seniors, still only about a third own a tablet, 42 percent own smartphones, and just over half have broadband at home. Only about a third use social media.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“There were some fears going into the project,” says Stiles of the NCOA program. “People did not necessarily think that a tablet computer had any relevancy for their lives. They had privacy concerns and were afraid of potentially being exposed to scams.” (Ditto the Curry class, where people asked pointed questions about putting credit card information on their iPad and worried about being unfairly charged when ordering photo prints online.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">For the NCOA program, the trick was helping users find their personal killer app. For a former taxi driver now in his 90s, it was Google Maps. Stiles recalls a colleague asking the man to name some streets on his old route. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“She zoomed in on these streets and his eyes just lit up, \" Stiles says. \"And then he wanted to go everywhere in New York City.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">For a former B-movie actress, the most alluring app was YouTube, where she found her old film clips.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Tablets seem to be a nice middle ground for those who are skeptical of full-sized computers. You can use voice commands instead of struggling with a mouse or keyboard; they fit neatly into a small living space like a senior apartment; and you can use them while sitting in your favorite comfy chair. “It doesn't feel like this weighty technology object,” says Stiles. “It really feels like a book.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Designing for Seniors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Pittsburgh-based Breezie, which sells tech solutions for seniors and \u003ca href=\"https://www.breezie.com/breezie-in-action/breezie-brings-online-benefits-to-seniors-in-florida/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">partnered with the NCOA on its program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, is trying to make Android-based devices even easier for new users by offering a service that simplifies a tablet’s interface. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“If you went right now to a Best Buy and if you bought a tablet to give to a senior, there are 43 different settings you would want to change before you make it senior-friendly,”\u003cb> \u003c/b>says CEO and founder Jeh Kazimi. He means things that Breezie can pre-adjust, like brightness and volume, consolidating logins, and making the screen more forgiving if you accidentally put your thumb on it. The company is also trying to develop a way to cancel out hand tremor for people with Parkinson's disease, because uneven pressure can make the tablet think a user is swiping when they mean to click.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_415056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-415056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1020x804.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1020x804.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-800x631.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-768x605.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-1180x930.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-960x757.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-240x189.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-375x296.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni-520x410.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/SENIORS15_Platoni.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaycee Springer, 65, polishes up her photo of the sun setting over San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Kara Platoni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Caregivers or Breezie staff can also curate each person’s desktop, like providing ready-made YouTube playlists for fans of jazz music or Muhammad Ali’s boxing matches. For an avid gardener, Kazimi says, they might install a few outdoorsy apps “that don’t show you ads every two minutes or ask you to upgrade every three minutes.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">But tablets aren’t a foolproof platform. Kazimi has seen seniors who need stickers to label the camera, volume and charging socket, because the devices can suddenly flip screen orientation, leaving confused people holding them upside down and wondering where the buttons are. Di Martino encountered some unexpected hurdles, too, “like a couple of the men in the class didn't know how to type.” She helped get people comfortable with the touchscreen by offering styluses, which are more accurate pointing tools than fingers. And she encouraged her students to feel OK about making mistakes. “Sometimes I tell them, ‘I don’t know what that button does. Let’s hit it,’” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Dip in Loneliness\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The seniors in the Curry program report different feelings about living alone—for example, Kaycee Springer enjoys it and is content using video chat to keep in touch with her daughters long-distance. But she does feel a bit socially crimped in the Tenderloin, where it doesn't always seem safe to walk around, especially at night. And she knows some of her elderly neighbors are extremely withdrawn. “There are people in my building, they just lay around and do absolutely nothing,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Di Martino has put together some preliminary stats from surveying participants at the program’s 6-month point. Almost all of the seniors said they used their iPad daily. As with the NCOA program, she noted a slight dip in reported loneliness. But the leaders of both projects say it’s hard to know if that stems from people making friends in class or becoming more social online. The AARP’s Ryerson says you might as well encourage both, so that technological and real-world connections reinforce each other. For example, she says, “FitBits are about taking steps. So let’s walk together.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">At the Curry Center, one other result is very clear: Now that the class is ending, nobody wants to give up their iPads. \"We just started!” exclaims Tachmuradova.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Springer still finds her tablet hard to put down: “I will put it on my bed—and then I will go, ‘\u003ci>It’s calling me\u003c/i>.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>“There will be more butts on bikes — and that’s a good thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s probably the most memorable line from the speaker’s podium during last week’s Ford GoBike launch in downtown Oakland, marking the first-ever arrival of bike sharing in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some supporters of the system say they’re thinking not just about how many butts, but \u003cem>whose\u003c/em> butts, will be on the 1,500 or so shared bicycles expected to be rolling in Oakland, Berkeley and Emeryville by Labor Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/333618243&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bike share has traditionally been white, male and college-educated dominated,” said Stuart Cohen, executive director of the transit advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://www.transformca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TransForm\u003c/a>, at the launch event. “And with the inequality gap we have here in the Bay Area, that would just widen it and would be the wrong way to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To try to shift bike-share demographics, Ford GoBike is adopting a tactic pioneered \u003ca href=\"http://www.lisc-chicago.org/news/2679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two years ago in Chicago\u003c/a>: Riders who qualify for low-income programs — like the state’s CalFresh food program, PG&E’s Reach utility subsidies or Muni’s Lifeline transit passes — can sign up for \u003ca href=\"https://www.fordgobike.com/pricing/bikeshareforall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a $5, one-year membership\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to make bike sharing available to those who don’t have a bank account or credit card, that five bucks can be paid in cash at Oakland’s main library, the Fruitvale BART Station and, for now, a handful of other locations \u003ca href=\"https://www.fordgobike.com/pricing/bikeshareforall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">listed here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been recognized as the most equitable bike share this country has ever seen,” said Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf after the launch celebration. Beyond the low-income membership, Schaaf said, “We required that these bike-share stations be in every part of our city, every community, every income level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some activists are pointing out that Ford GoBike’s planned footprint in Oakland leaves out parts of the city where much of the city’s low-income population is concentrated and where such a service might be most badly needed. 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