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"content": "\u003cp>A California bill that aims to help protect most workers from violence at their job sites has cleared a key hurdle in the Legislature, and heads now for a full vote in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB553\">SB 553\u003c/a>, employers in all kinds of industries would be required to implement a workplace violence prevention plan developed together with their employees. Similar protections have been in place for healthcare workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/WPVPIHC_FAQs.html\">since 2017\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers in the Appropriations Committee \u003ca href=\"https://sd15.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-corteses-statement-assembly-appropriations-committee-passage-sb-553-preventing\">advanced\u003c/a> the measure last week, after amendments included exemptions for very small businesses. The California Chamber of Commerce, which lobbied for the changes, \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:9dbe5ed4-aecd-47ab-8628-e76f0ad94e09\">withdrew its opposition\u003c/a> today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggressive or violent behavior at work sites has increasingly become a serious concern, especially in industries such as retail, which has suffered a spike in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/business/retail-workers-assaults.html\">reported assaults\u003c/a>, particularly at grocery and convenience stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/CFOI/CFOI_2021/cfoi2021-A-9.pdf\">57 Californians who died (PDF)\u003c/a> from work-related violence in 2021 was Miguel Nuñez Peñaloza, a clerk at a Rite Aid in Los Angeles. The 36-year-old was fatally shot after confronting a shoplifter at the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened to him was tragic. It still makes me cry,” said Juana Rodriguez, 70, who remembered her coworker of several years as kind and respectful. “I’m afraid that something like that could happen again.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"State Sen. Dave Cortese (D-San José)\"]‘That’s not a good thing when you have violence spiking up and people losing their lives. Rules should be put in place as soon as possible.’[/pullquote]Her employer installed a better security camera system and a guard for all shifts after the fatality, Rodriguez said. But she worries about the fact that shoplifting has become more frequent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 553 would help improve safety by pushing more employers to communicate at least annually with workers about how to minimize hazards, as well as keep a log of violent incidents, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Employers would really know what we are facing each day,” said Rodriguez, a member of the United Food & Commercial Workers, which sponsored the bill. “We are the ones that are frontline at the store, risking our lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Addressing opposition concerns\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The California Chamber of Commerce, representing a long list of business groups including the California Retailers Association and the California Grocers Association, initially fought the measure. The Chamber argued, in part, that the bill would be infeasible for small employers, and create considerable costs for all other businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after changes announced last week that exempt potentially hundreds of thousands of workplaces with fewer than 10 employees that are not accessible to the public, the Chamber of Commerce \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:9dbe5ed4-aecd-47ab-8628-e76f0ad94e09\">changed its position (PDF)\u003c/a> to “neutral,” meaning it won’t actively oppose the measure.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11939361,news_11875404,news_11950765\"]Robert Moutrie, a policy advocate with the Chamber of Commerce, cautioned that some business groups might still fight it because of expected costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no one in our coalition who in any way thinks that workplace violence is not a terrible thing,” said Moutrie. “But the issue has been how do we make sure that the requirements we’re putting on businesses and public entities are feasible to do and realistic and really solve the problems? And that has been our back-and-forth\u003cem>.\u003c/em>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and locations chosen by employees to work remotely would also be excluded from the bill, which would go into effect in July 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State occupational safety and health regulators have been crafting a standard that would apply to industries outside healthcare. But that \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/Workplace-Violence-in-General-Industry/\">rulemaking process\u003c/a> by Cal/OSHA, delayed during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been under way for six years and is nowhere near completion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not a good thing when you have violence spiking up and people losing their lives,” said state Sen. 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People were getting beat down, like, head smashed onto the floor, chased, battered, patients would attack other patients.’[/pullquote]Cortese recalled learning from first responders that they couldn’t immediately enter the building, where the shooter was still active, because they didn’t have an access key card. Cortese was also taken aback by the story of one of the victims who helped coworkers escape through a window onto a roof before he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Had there been a plan in place that everyone understood, that this is how you get out of the second floor if there’s an intruder or an emergency that closes off access the other way … it could have saved lives,” said Cortese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the latest figures by federal regulators, workplace violence is the third leading cause of fatal occupational injuries in the U.S., killing \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm\">761 workers in 2021\u003c/a>. However, mass shootings make up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939361/im-afraid-half-moon-bay-shootings-may-have-been-extreme-case-of-workplace-violence\">small fraction\u003c/a> of workplace homicide incidents, according to occupational safety experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1.3 million nonfatal work-related victimizations such as assaults and robberies occurred in the U.S. on average each year between 2015 and 2019, according to \u003ca href=\"https://bjs.ojp.gov/press-release/federal-agencies-release-joint-study-workplace-violence\">a study\u003c/a> by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and other federal agencies. Exchanging money with the public and working with volatile or unstable people such as in healthcare settings, are some of the most likely risk factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why healthcare led the way in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before healthcare employers in the state were required to take steps to prevent violence, psychiatric nurse Rachel Cohen Zepeda said she witnessed terrible assaults on coworkers at different hospitals in the Bay Area, often by patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959649\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959649\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS41431_002_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3376-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a sport coat and sitting at a large round table speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS41431_002_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3376-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS41431_002_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3376-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS41431_002_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3376-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS41431_002_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3376-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS41431_002_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3376-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS41431_002_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3376-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Cortese, then a District 15 State Senate candidate, speaks during a forum at the Campbell City Hall on Feb. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We knew we weren’t safe. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cortese recalled learning from first responders that they couldn’t immediately enter the building, where the shooter was still active, because they didn’t have an access key card. Cortese was also taken aback by the story of one of the victims who helped coworkers escape through a window onto a roof before he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Had there been a plan in place that everyone understood, that this is how you get out of the second floor if there’s an intruder or an emergency that closes off access the other way … it could have saved lives,” said Cortese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the latest figures by federal regulators, workplace violence is the third leading cause of fatal occupational injuries in the U.S., killing \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm\">761 workers in 2021\u003c/a>. However, mass shootings make up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939361/im-afraid-half-moon-bay-shootings-may-have-been-extreme-case-of-workplace-violence\">small fraction\u003c/a> of workplace homicide incidents, according to occupational safety experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1.3 million nonfatal work-related victimizations such as assaults and robberies occurred in the U.S. on average each year between 2015 and 2019, according to \u003ca href=\"https://bjs.ojp.gov/press-release/federal-agencies-release-joint-study-workplace-violence\">a study\u003c/a> by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and other federal agencies. Exchanging money with the public and working with volatile or unstable people such as in healthcare settings, are some of the most likely risk factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why healthcare led the way in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before healthcare employers in the state were required to take steps to prevent violence, psychiatric nurse Rachel Cohen Zepeda said she witnessed terrible assaults on coworkers at different hospitals in the Bay Area, often by patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959649\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959649\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS41431_002_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3376-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a sport coat and sitting at a large round table speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS41431_002_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3376-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS41431_002_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3376-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS41431_002_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3376-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS41431_002_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3376-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS41431_002_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3376-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS41431_002_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3376-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Cortese, then a District 15 State Senate candidate, speaks during a forum at the Campbell City Hall on Feb. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We knew we weren’t safe. People were getting beat down, like, head smashed onto the floor, chased, battered, patients would attack other patients,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the rules have given nurses like her a seat at the table to push for safety improvements, said Cohen Zepeda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A guard is now available in the building to immediately respond to incidents, and nurses are regularly trained on how to prevent violence and, if necessary, get out of choke holds. The panic buttons work, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need laws in place that force employers to acknowledge the situation and try to do something about it,” said Cohen Zepeda, who is part of a workplace violence prevention committee at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think everything is fixed already. It’s a work in progress,” she added. “But it’s a complete change of culture from ‘You are a nurse, you are a human punching bag, what do you expect?’ to ‘Oh, this is not acceptable.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Supporters of a proposal to raise the minimum wage for California health workers point to Inglewood, where last fall voters approved a wage hike that primarily applied to staff at dialysis clinics and the city’s only hospital. But the implementation of that local measure has been bumpy, signaling potential problems for the larger effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/10/health-care-workers/\">Inglewood’s ordinance\u003c/a> went into effect Jan. 1, raising the minimum wage for those workers to $25 an hour. Then in March, Centinela Hospital Medical Center, a 362-bed acute care facility owned by Prime Healthcare, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CA_SUP_LAX_23STCV08047_d126900179e341_Complaint.pdf\">laid off 48 workers and reduced hours for others (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to a complaint filed earlier this month by Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West. The local union led Inglewood’s measure, and its parent organization, SEIU California, is sponsoring the statewide bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Renee Saldaña, spokesperson, SEIU-UHW\"]‘It’s not asking for the moon. This is just the baseline of a fair wage for the people who provide vital treatment.’[/pullquote]The union alleges hospital administrators made the cuts in retaliation for the newly implemented wage increase, even though \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Inglewood-Ordinance-23-10.pdf\">the city ordinance prohibits health facilities from funding the pay increase by laying off workers or reducing their benefits (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centinela officials maintain that the hospital is complying with Inglewood’s minimum wage ordinance. They say they laid off workers after a thorough assessment that determined the hospital was overstaffed in certain units. Centinela offered nearly half of the affected staff other positions within the hospital and many accepted, according to a hospital spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recent reduction in force was entirely unrelated to the ordinance and affected 2% of the staff,” Susan Lowe, Centinela’s spokesperson, said in an email. “It was related to strategic changes in operational needs and improvement measures, and staff have been added in areas that positively impact patient care and address community needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the lawsuit is pending, the union is advocating for a broader pay hike for California health workers via \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB525\">Senate Bill 525\u003c/a>, by Los Angeles Democratic Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, a longtime labor leader. Durazo’s bill calls for a minimum hourly wage of $25 that would be adjusted annually for inflation. California’s minimum wage is currently $15.50, although it’s higher in some cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the proposal becomes law, the new minimum wage would go into effect in January 2024 and benefit an estimated 469,000 health workers. It would include people who make slightly more than $25, \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Proposed-health-care-minimum-wage-increase-FINAL.pdf\">who would likely get a corresponding pay increase (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to an analysis by UC Berkeley’s Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Qualifying workers would receive an average increase of $5.74 per hour, which would increase operating costs at health facilities by about 3%, the report said. Some lower-paid workers in health facilities include nursing assistants, patient aides, medical technicians and janitorial workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal faces a great deal of opposition from industry heavy hitters, including hospital executives, clinic leaders and the doctors lobby, which argue this isn’t something all providers can afford or easily implement, especially when they’re dealing with other stressors in their budgets. The California Chamber of Commerce lists \u003ca href=\"https://advocacy.calchamber.com/policy/bill-tracking/2023-job-killers/\">the bill as a “job killer.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11947102,news_11936507,forum_2010101892748\" label=\"Related Posts\"]But union leaders say the time is now, especially as the industry grapples with workforce shortages that are burning out current staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Twenty-five dollars an hour breaks down to roughly $50,000 a year,” said Renee Saldaña, spokesperson for SEIU-UHW. “It’s not asking for the moon. This is just the baseline of a fair wage for the people who provide vital treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who would benefit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eneryk Santana last month joined the tens of thousands of people who commute daily across the San Diego-Tijuana border for work or school. He’s a medical assistant at San Ysidro Health Center in Chula Vista and the high cost of living on the U.S. side, he said, forced him to look for housing in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid rush-hour traffic at the border crossing, he tries to leave his place by 4 a.m. While the border cities are less than 20 miles apart, the process of crossing the border can take up to a few hours on busy days. The commute has been an adjustment, but, he said, his monthly rent in Tijuana is about $1,000 less than what he was paying in Chula Vista — a significant difference for someone making $22 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Santana, a boost in pay would allow him to consider moving back to the U.S., he said. Ideally it could also mean more people being attracted to this type of work. “Being short-staffed, when someone calls off, we don’t have much staff who can cover,” Santana said. “And it’s hard not only for workers, but also for the patients, who sometimes have long wait times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in clinics and hospitals account for about half of all workers who would see a boost in pay under Durazo’s bill, according to the analysis from the UC Berkeley Labor Center. Because of their current low earnings, workers in home health services and nursing homes would see the biggest difference — approximately a 40% increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three-fourths of the workforce who would receive a raise under the bill are women, and almost half are Latino, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The fight against industry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hospitals are leading the opposition to the wage hike, arguing that some facilities are in precarious financial situations. A handful of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/04/hospital-closures-california/\">hospitals in the state have reduced or plan to reduce services\u003c/a>. Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-20/beverly-hospital-in-montebello-files-for-bankruptcy-in-effort-to-avoid-closure\">a Montebello hospital filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/01/hospital-closure/\">a hospital in the San Joaquin Valley closed its doors\u003c/a> at the beginning of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to boost minimum wage pay, hospital leaders say, would only add to that strain. A wage hike at this time “takes a very serious problem and makes it impossible,” Carmela Coyle, president of the California Hospital Association, recently said in a call with reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Punctuating its point, the hospital association released a report earlier this month that found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kaufmanhall.com/sites/default/files/2023-04/CHA-Financial-Impact-Report.pdf?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=248c284920-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-248c284920-150460103&mc_cid=248c284920&mc_eid=099a508f5c\">1 in 5 hospitals are in an “unsustainable financial position” and at risk of closing (PDF)\u003c/a>. Hospitals are considered at risk if their incomes aren’t covering costs, meaning they are losing money and have increasing debt, said the report, which sampled 114 hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union leaders have pushed back on hospitals’ arguments, noting that most hospitals are part of large health systems that can weather rough patches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health economists have described the current landscape of California hospitals as a mixed bag, with independent and rural hospitals especially experiencing severe financial pressures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the peak of the pandemic, hospitals had increased expenses, but also received \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/funding-for-health-care-providers-during-the-pandemic-an-update/\">financial aid from the federal government\u003c/a>. That funding phased out in 2022. The state has not yet audited totals for this last fiscal year, but in 2021 California hospitals \u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/hospital-annual-financial-data-selected-data-pivot-tables/resource/29bacfe7-a98d-4183-9282-a5803a3d4c6e\">posted total earnings of $11.9 billion\u003c/a>, up from the \u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/hospital-annual-financial-data-selected-data-pivot-tables/resource/84d0a088-3689-40b4-ab82-6b04e8c0b213\">$8.5 billion hospitals recorded in 2019\u003c/a>, according to financial data from the Department of Health Care Access and Information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of counties has also \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Counties-SB-525-Durazo-Sen-Labor-Oppose.pdf\">voiced its opposition to the bill (PDF)\u003c/a>, noting it would apply to workers at county public health and mental health departments, as well as clinics and hospitals operated by counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Implementing such a bill would cost the counties hundreds of millions of dollars annually, said Kalyn Dean, legislative advocate with the California State Association of Counties. To absorb that cost, she said, counties could be forced to reduce services and cut jobs in other government departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, clinic leaders say that while they support the idea of boosting pay for their workers, they are subject to strict reimbursement rules that do not allow them to take on the additional expense. \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/MediCalExplainedHealthCentersPaid.pdf\">The vast majority of community health centers’ patients are covered by Medi-Cal (PDF)\u003c/a>, the health insurance program for people with lower incomes. Medi-Cal pays these centers a fixed amount per patient visit. Modifying that amount to afford a wage increase would require both state and federal approval, said Dennis Cuevas-Romero, vice president of government affairs at the California Primary Care Association, which represents health centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unlike other businesses, we can’t just say, ‘OK, the state requires us to increase the minimum wage, let’s just increase the cost of our services.’ We are prohibited from doing so,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some provider groups are likely to seek an exemption from this bill, but community health centers say they would like to find a way to make this work because a “nightmare” scenario would be for their clinic employees to leave for better-paying jobs at a nearby hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our health centers want to get there,” Cuevas-Romero said. “I think the questions are: Where’s the money coming from? And how do we implement it?”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He’s a medical assistant at San Ysidro Health Center in Chula Vista and the high cost of living on the U.S. side, he said, forced him to look for housing in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid rush-hour traffic at the border crossing, he tries to leave his place by 4 a.m. While the border cities are less than 20 miles apart, the process of crossing the border can take up to a few hours on busy days. The commute has been an adjustment, but, he said, his monthly rent in Tijuana is about $1,000 less than what he was paying in Chula Vista — a significant difference for someone making $22 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Santana, a boost in pay would allow him to consider moving back to the U.S., he said. Ideally it could also mean more people being attracted to this type of work. “Being short-staffed, when someone calls off, we don’t have much staff who can cover,” Santana said. “And it’s hard not only for workers, but also for the patients, who sometimes have long wait times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in clinics and hospitals account for about half of all workers who would see a boost in pay under Durazo’s bill, according to the analysis from the UC Berkeley Labor Center. Because of their current low earnings, workers in home health services and nursing homes would see the biggest difference — approximately a 40% increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three-fourths of the workforce who would receive a raise under the bill are women, and almost half are Latino, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The fight against industry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hospitals are leading the opposition to the wage hike, arguing that some facilities are in precarious financial situations. A handful of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/04/hospital-closures-california/\">hospitals in the state have reduced or plan to reduce services\u003c/a>. Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-20/beverly-hospital-in-montebello-files-for-bankruptcy-in-effort-to-avoid-closure\">a Montebello hospital filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/01/hospital-closure/\">a hospital in the San Joaquin Valley closed its doors\u003c/a> at the beginning of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to boost minimum wage pay, hospital leaders say, would only add to that strain. A wage hike at this time “takes a very serious problem and makes it impossible,” Carmela Coyle, president of the California Hospital Association, recently said in a call with reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Punctuating its point, the hospital association released a report earlier this month that found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kaufmanhall.com/sites/default/files/2023-04/CHA-Financial-Impact-Report.pdf?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=248c284920-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-248c284920-150460103&mc_cid=248c284920&mc_eid=099a508f5c\">1 in 5 hospitals are in an “unsustainable financial position” and at risk of closing (PDF)\u003c/a>. Hospitals are considered at risk if their incomes aren’t covering costs, meaning they are losing money and have increasing debt, said the report, which sampled 114 hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union leaders have pushed back on hospitals’ arguments, noting that most hospitals are part of large health systems that can weather rough patches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health economists have described the current landscape of California hospitals as a mixed bag, with independent and rural hospitals especially experiencing severe financial pressures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the peak of the pandemic, hospitals had increased expenses, but also received \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/funding-for-health-care-providers-during-the-pandemic-an-update/\">financial aid from the federal government\u003c/a>. That funding phased out in 2022. The state has not yet audited totals for this last fiscal year, but in 2021 California hospitals \u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/hospital-annual-financial-data-selected-data-pivot-tables/resource/29bacfe7-a98d-4183-9282-a5803a3d4c6e\">posted total earnings of $11.9 billion\u003c/a>, up from the \u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/hospital-annual-financial-data-selected-data-pivot-tables/resource/84d0a088-3689-40b4-ab82-6b04e8c0b213\">$8.5 billion hospitals recorded in 2019\u003c/a>, according to financial data from the Department of Health Care Access and Information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of counties has also \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Counties-SB-525-Durazo-Sen-Labor-Oppose.pdf\">voiced its opposition to the bill (PDF)\u003c/a>, noting it would apply to workers at county public health and mental health departments, as well as clinics and hospitals operated by counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Implementing such a bill would cost the counties hundreds of millions of dollars annually, said Kalyn Dean, legislative advocate with the California State Association of Counties. To absorb that cost, she said, counties could be forced to reduce services and cut jobs in other government departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, clinic leaders say that while they support the idea of boosting pay for their workers, they are subject to strict reimbursement rules that do not allow them to take on the additional expense. \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/MediCalExplainedHealthCentersPaid.pdf\">The vast majority of community health centers’ patients are covered by Medi-Cal (PDF)\u003c/a>, the health insurance program for people with lower incomes. Medi-Cal pays these centers a fixed amount per patient visit. 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Assemblymember Ash Kalra announced that he would withdraw AB 1400, California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act (CalCare), from a vote today after it became clear there would not be enough votes for it to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite heavy opposition and substantial misinformation from those that stand to profit from our current healthcare system, we were able to ignite a realistic and achievable path toward single-payer and bring AB 1400 to the floor of the Assembly,” said Kalra in a news release. “Although the bill did not pass the Assembly by today’s deadline, this is only a pause for the single-payer movement; our coalition, including the mighty California Nurses Association, will continue the fight for accessible, affordable, and equitable healthcare for all Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would have created the nation’s only statewide universal health care system and set its rules — but it would not have paid for it. There’s another bill that would do that. It has a different deadline and does not have to pass on Monday.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Ash Kalra, D-San Jose\"]‘Although the bill did not pass the Assembly by today’s deadline, this is only a pause for the single-payer movement; our coalition, including the mighty California Nurses Association, will continue the fight for accessible, affordable, and equitable healthcare for all Californians.’[/pullquote]There were still many unanswered questions about financing, quality and how doctors would make decisions. Monday’s debate would likely have been dominated by concerns about cost. The latest estimate says it would cost taxpayers at least $356.5 billion per year to pay for the health care of nearly 40 million residents. 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Nurses condemn this failure by elected representatives to put patients above profits, especially during the worst surge of COVID-19 yet, at a time when it’s more clear than ever before that health care must be a right, not just a privilege for those who can afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Republican Leader Marie Waldron lauded Democrats who stood up to their base and joined Republicans to put an end to the bill she referred to as a “foolhardy plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Better late than never,” said Waldron in a news release. “The fact that a proposal for a government takeover of our state’s entire health care system even made it this far shows just how out of touch the Democratic party is from the needs of everyday Californians. Even though this plan is dead for now, every Democrat who supported it will have to answer for their effort to end Medicare, kick 20 million Californians off their existing plans, require the largest tax increase in state history and put bureaucrats in charge of health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other coalitions opposed to the bill expressed concern that its passage would have done more harm than good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians are already facing higher inflation and taxes while struggling with the many difficulties/hardships that the pandemic has caused,” said Ned Wigglesworth, a spokesperson for the Protect California Health Care coalition, in a news statement. “They should have the right to choose the coverage they want, and deserve a stable health care system they can always rely on. AB 1400 would have eliminated both Medicare for seniors and private coverage for everyone, with no guarantee that patients could keep their doctor. The bill would have irreparably damaged the health care that millions of Californians rely on every day — all in the middle of a pandemic. Today’s vote in the Assembly was a vote to protect their constituents from higher taxes and chaos in our health care system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Democrats filed a proposed amendment to the state Constitution that would impose hefty new taxes on businesses and individuals to pay for the system. The taxes would generate roughly $163 billion per year, and the amendment would give lawmakers the power to raise those taxes to keep up with costs. Supporters hoped both proposals — the bill to create the system and the bill to pay for it — would move forward together this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Monday’s deadline was only on the bill that would create the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say Californians and their employers are already paying exorbitant amounts for health care through high deductibles, co-pays and monthly insurance premiums. The bill would have eliminated all of those and replace them with taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sure, there is sticker shock. But there should be sticker shock for how much we are paying now,” said Stephanie Roberson, director of government relations for the California Nurses Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are we getting? People are still uninsured. People are still underinsured. People are going into medical debt. People have to reach tens of thousands of dollars of deductibles. We’ll eliminate that under this program,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, lots of people pay for California’s health care system, including patients, insurance companies and employers. The bill before the Legislature would change that to a single payer — the government. If enacted, it would unravel the private health insurance market. Private health insurance would still be allowed, but only for services not covered by the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Progressives have long dreamed of a single-payer health system in the U.S., believing it would control costs and save lives. But it’s never happened. Vermont enacted the nation’s first single-payer health care system in 2011, but later abandoned it because of the cost. Proposals in Congress have gone nowhere.[aside postID=\"news_11902591,news_11901347,news_11902585\" label=\"Related Posts\"]In California, voters overwhelmingly rejected a single-payer system in a 1994 ballot initiative. State lawmakers tried again in the 2000s, twice passing single-payer legislation only to have both bills vetoed by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican. Another attempt in 2017 passed the Senate but died in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s vote wouldn’t have been easy, even in famously liberal California. While this bill had the support of some Democratic leaders and powerful labor unions, it had intense opposition from business groups that are pressuring more moderate Democrats not to vote for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill needed 41 votes to survive on Monday. Democrats have 56 of the 80 seats in the Assembly. But they are missing three of their more liberal members, who have recently resigned to take other jobs, leaving little room for defections. The current idea for financing includes new taxes, and legislators will need to get voter approval for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters did not get a boost from Newsom, who they thought would be an important ally. 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Instead, Assembly Member Ash Kalra, the main author of the bill, chose not to hold a vote on this bill at all, providing cover for those who would have been forced to go on the record about where they stand on guaranteed health care for all people in California. Nurses condemn this failure by elected representatives to put patients above profits, especially during the worst surge of COVID-19 yet, at a time when it’s more clear than ever before that health care must be a right, not just a privilege for those who can afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Republican Leader Marie Waldron lauded Democrats who stood up to their base and joined Republicans to put an end to the bill she referred to as a “foolhardy plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Better late than never,” said Waldron in a news release. “The fact that a proposal for a government takeover of our state’s entire health care system even made it this far shows just how out of touch the Democratic party is from the needs of everyday Californians. Even though this plan is dead for now, every Democrat who supported it will have to answer for their effort to end Medicare, kick 20 million Californians off their existing plans, require the largest tax increase in state history and put bureaucrats in charge of health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other coalitions opposed to the bill expressed concern that its passage would have done more harm than good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians are already facing higher inflation and taxes while struggling with the many difficulties/hardships that the pandemic has caused,” said Ned Wigglesworth, a spokesperson for the Protect California Health Care coalition, in a news statement. “They should have the right to choose the coverage they want, and deserve a stable health care system they can always rely on. AB 1400 would have eliminated both Medicare for seniors and private coverage for everyone, with no guarantee that patients could keep their doctor. The bill would have irreparably damaged the health care that millions of Californians rely on every day — all in the middle of a pandemic. Today’s vote in the Assembly was a vote to protect their constituents from higher taxes and chaos in our health care system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Democrats filed a proposed amendment to the state Constitution that would impose hefty new taxes on businesses and individuals to pay for the system. The taxes would generate roughly $163 billion per year, and the amendment would give lawmakers the power to raise those taxes to keep up with costs. 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