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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19051\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/sb10069454g-001-e1399421017698.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-19051\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/sb10069454g-001-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The California Hospital Association and Service Employees International Union say they have reached a \"unique agreement\" that will \"change the face of healthcare in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the process, the two ballot initiatives SEIU backed -- that would have put dramatic limits on both\u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/admin/press-releases/2014/db14-002.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewsUpdatesFromCaliforniaSecretaryOfStateDebraBowen+(News+Updates+from+California+Secretary+of+State+Debra+Bowen)\" target=\"_blank\"> hospital charges\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/admin/press-releases/2014/db14-001.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CEO compensation\u003c/a> -- are being withdrawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The partnership was announced Tuesday morning, is effective immediately, and runs through December 31, 2017. In a long call with reporters, both sides emphasized what they called the centerpiece of the deal: a $100 million \"joint advocacy fund.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Major Goal is Raising Medi-Cal Rates\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHA president Duane Dauner said the parties \"will undertake the task of making sure that we fundamentally reform California's Medi-Cal program over the coming two years.\" Medi-Cal is the federal-state health program for people who are low income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, both SEIU and the CHA seek to increase Medi-Cal reimbursement rates to providers, currently 49th in the country, a move that was good news to advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We certainly support increasing Medi-Cal rates, because that improves access to care for the 8-plus million Californians in Medi-Cal right now,\" said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access. He noted that some 9 million Californians are now enrolled in Medi-Cal, in the wake of the expansion under the Affordable Care Act. \"All those folks need access to primary care providers and hospitals, to get the care they need, but that means paying a decent rate to providers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some people are curious what the union is getting out of this move. The details of the agreement will not be made public. Instead, the deal was summarized in a one-page press release. To Glenn Melnick, a health economist at USC, the potential overhaul of Medi-Cal is not where focus should lie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The big news is that they're pulling those items off the ballot,\" he said. \"That's the big news. Why? I can't tell from this release.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melnick called the initiative that would have regulated nonprofit hospital prices \"the nuclear option … it was tying hospital pricing to cost. That's a tremendously powerful threat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he noted that if such a measure would have passed, then hospitals would have had less revenue -- meaning they would have had less money to spend on wages and salaries of their employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/148382927&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Regan, president and CEO of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, said that working to overhaul Medi-Cal might ensure a more stable future for workers. \"What do we get out of (the deal)? We get the opportunity to built the best health care system in America. We get to do it in collaboration with hospital providers, we get to offer our younger members an opportunity to help create a future that will offer them stable employment to retirement and then hopefully a secure retirement beyond that, and frankly, we don't have that right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melnick did agree that higher Medi-Cal payments would potentially give hospitals more money to spend on their workforce. \"Sixty percent of budget is wages and salaries in a hospital,\" he said. \"If they have more, they'll spend it, because they're good at that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to SEIU and the California Hospital Association, other hospitals and health systems are parties to the deal which covers a majority of hospital beds in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman with the state's Department of Health Care Services said they were reviewing the agreement and declined comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harsh Criticism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a joint release, three powerful unions in California harshly criticized the agreement, calling it \"an act of treason.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This agreement will undermine the rights of workers and will eliminate the union's watchdog role on behalf of patients,\" read the statement from the California Nurses Association, the National Union of Healthcare Workers and the AFL-CIO. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\"> [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrKwTm5jldE&w=640&h=360]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jahvonn Mair was only 4 when he was diagnosed last year with asthma. He’s still so tiny that his inhaler apparatus is half as big as his head, and his twice-daily doses have slipped into his everyday routine alongside watching cartoons and playing with a favorite stuffed monkey named George.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jahvonn lives in West Oakland, a neighborhood clogged with air pollution from the surrounding freeways and the Port of Oakland. Residents here are twice as likely to go to the emergency room with asthma as people in Alameda County overall. They’re also more likely to die of cancer, heart disease or lung disease — all illnesses with known links to polluted air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now officials and activists are tussling over a massive development project underway right next door, at the decommissioned Oakland Army Base. The project promises to bring much-needed jobs and economic benefits to Oakland and beyond. But health officials fear it could worsen the already toxic air in West Oakland, sticking residents with more than their fair share of the burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hope and Risk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopes for the remade former base, decommissioned in 1999, are high. The city and the port are turning about 300 acres of it into a \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandglobal.com/\">modern trade and logistics hub\u003c/a> right next to the current port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once it’s up and running in 2020, the new trade center will have an additional shipping terminal, a bigger rail yard and ample facilities for handling and sorting cargo. It will give the port area the capacity to handle hundreds of thousands more cargo containers each year. And the city predicts it will provide at least 2,000 new jobs, plus an economic boost reaching into the American Midwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Oakland Army Base was an economic engine for West Oakland especially, and Oakland and the region generally,” says Fred Blackwell, Oakland’s interim city administrator. “So the notion of bringing it back and having it be an economic engine for the neighborhood and the city once again … is pretty exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for jobs is real — in the city and in this neighborhood in particular. West Oakland’s unemployment rate is typically higher than the city’s overall, which dipped below 10 percent at the end of last year. With that in mind, city officials placed a job recruiting center for the Army Base project at 18th and Adeline streets, smack in the middle of West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134748\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 319px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/trucks-west-oakland.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134748\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/trucks-west-oakland-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Every day at the Port of Oakland trucks line up for 7-8 hours waiting to unload their trucks onto the diesel ships. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"319\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every day at the Port of Oakland trucks line up for seven or eight hours waiting to unload their cargo onto the ships. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \u003ccite>( Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what’s the potential harm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction, which began last fall, will require heavy-duty diesel trucks and construction vehicles to make tens of thousands of trips to and from the site. And the new trade center will ultimately host a lot more freight activity than the port alone does today — all of which takes fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents point out that the impact will be somewhat offset by the efficiency of shifting more cargo from trucks to trains. Still, the project’s official \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221109312/Environmental-Impact-Report-on-Oakland-Army-Base-and-Air-Quality\">environmental analysis\u003c/a> predicts that it will “significantly and unavoidably” expose nearby residents to toxic air pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a worst-case scenario, the analysis says the project could raise a West Oaklander’s lifetime risk of cancer by close to 100 cases per 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That number might sound small. But local activists and health officials argue that West Oakland — a community that’s about half African-American and 85 percent nonwhite, where residents make about half the county’s average household income — is already bearing an unfair burden. Public health studies have found that the life expectancy for someone born and raised in West Oakland is at least 15 years less than someone born and raised in the Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health problems are not all because of air pollution. Still, David Vintze, the air quality planning manager at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, says West Oakland can’t take any more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our own studies have shown a two to three times increase in the amount of pollution in that community versus any other place in the Bay Area,” Vintze says. “That community is already too overburdened to be saturated with more particulate matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jahvonn lives in the Ironhorse apartment building on 14th Street, literally next door to Interstate 880 and directly across the freeway from the Army base. He calls his asthma attacks “heart attacks” and says they make his stomach hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mom, Charlotte Lynn, keeps him indoors more often since his diagnosis. When he does go outside, it’s often to the second-floor courtyard of his apartment building, where he and his friends ride bikes within direct view of the interstate. Many of them also have asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing by the courtyard’s railing, Lynn watches one tractor-trailer truck after another drive by, leaving the port of today. “All you can see is trucks on the freeway,” she says. “That’s it, trucks, trucks, trucks. See? There’s another one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Is Enough?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health concerns notwithstanding, everyone, including Vintze, wants the Army base project to go on. What’s disputed is whether the city is doing enough to limit emissions and protect West Oakland residents such as Jahvonn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackwell points to a thick \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221282783/Air-Pollution-Mitigation-Plan-for-Oakland-Army-Base-Redevelopment-Project\">air-quality plan\u003c/a>, dozens of pages long and required by state law, and says: “I think we have gone about as far as we can go to try to mitigate these issues while still having a viable project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vintze, along with the Alameda County Public Health Department and local environmental activists, disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has to be some other things put into place in order to limit the impact of what they’re going to do,” says county Public Health Director Muntu Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is doing more than the law demands in at least one regard, by requiring heavy construction vehicles, like backhoes, to install cleaner engine technology a year ahead of the state’s mandated schedule (though for some vehicles that’s still not for another two to four years).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But air quality and public health authorities wanted the city to go further. They \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221058904/BAAQMD-Letter-to-Oakland-7-22-13\">asked Oakland officials\u003c/a> to require diesel filters on all the trucks hauling materials to the construction site, as trucks serving the port must have. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221108341/Oakland-Response-Letter-to-BAAQMD-9-23-13\">city said no\u003c/a>. The City Council had voted to require that fully half the labor for this project come from Oakland, officials explained. And if they required expensive filters, they’d squeeze out too many small, independent Oakland truckers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The West Oakland community, it’s their health, it’s their life,” says Vintze. “It shouldn’t be minimized for profit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Tagami is an Oakland native, CEO of California Capital and Investment Group, and the project developer. He points out that he’s already meeting or exceeding the legal requirements for air quality control, and calls the regulators who are complaining about the project “rogue individuals” who have become overzealous in their oversight role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a handful of shake-down people who want to ring the bell and argue and complain that something more can be done, but I haven’t seen them create many jobs,” he says. “Yelling at the rain is not going to make the rain stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is, indeed, not stopping. Vintze and others have basically given up on further changing the construction plans. Now they’re hoping to get stronger protections into the plan for trade center operations in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134750\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 650px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/inhalers.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134750 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/inhalers.jpg\" alt=\"In Jahvonn Mair's preschool class of 22 students, 7 have been diagnosed with asthma and use an inhaler. Here they display their inhalers. From left to right, Akirah Armstrong, (behind) Adrian Kemp, RiJai Malone, Omarr Daniel (front), Jahvonn Mair and Sarquan Holland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"650\" height=\"452\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Jahvonn Mair’s preschool class of 22 students, seven have been diagnosed with asthma and use an inhaler. Here they display their inhalers. 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And there’s nothing in writing that says what the developer must do to correct it. Instead, says Blackwell, the city administrator, the monitors’ main purpose is to tell if overall pollution in the neighborhood rises or falls over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Unknowns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tagami and other proponents argue that the project could actually pave the way for cleaner air in West Oakland in the long run. It’ll enable companies to handle more cargo on site, instead of trucking it around the region for processing. And it could bring electric power to some cranes and docked ships instead of having them burn diesel. In fact, the California Transportation Commission, which is putting up nearly half the cost of the $500 million project, based its grant in part on the promise of cleaner air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, it’s impossible to predict now whether those improvements will be enough to totally counteract the emissions coming from ships, trains and trucks moving many tons more cargo each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beveridge says he hopes it will but — like the promise of economic benefits for West Oakland — he’ll believe it when he sees it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an old saying. … A rising tide raises all boats,” he says. “That’s great if you have a boat. But if you don’t have a boat, a rising tide just sooner or later goes above your nose and you’re finished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, across the interstate, Charlotte Lynn keeps the windows closed to the traffic. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once it’s up and running in 2020, the new trade center will have an additional shipping terminal, a bigger rail yard and ample facilities for handling and sorting cargo. It will give the port area the capacity to handle hundreds of thousands more cargo containers each year. And the city predicts it will provide at least 2,000 new jobs, plus an economic boost reaching into the American Midwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Oakland Army Base was an economic engine for West Oakland especially, and Oakland and the region generally,” says Fred Blackwell, Oakland’s interim city administrator. “So the notion of bringing it back and having it be an economic engine for the neighborhood and the city once again … is pretty exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for jobs is real — in the city and in this neighborhood in particular. West Oakland’s unemployment rate is typically higher than the city’s overall, which dipped below 10 percent at the end of last year. With that in mind, city officials placed a job recruiting center for the Army Base project at 18th and Adeline streets, smack in the middle of West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134748\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 319px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/trucks-west-oakland.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134748\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/trucks-west-oakland-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Every day at the Port of Oakland trucks line up for 7-8 hours waiting to unload their trucks onto the diesel ships. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"319\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every day at the Port of Oakland trucks line up for seven or eight hours waiting to unload their cargo onto the ships. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \u003ccite>( Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what’s the potential harm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction, which began last fall, will require heavy-duty diesel trucks and construction vehicles to make tens of thousands of trips to and from the site. And the new trade center will ultimately host a lot more freight activity than the port alone does today — all of which takes fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents point out that the impact will be somewhat offset by the efficiency of shifting more cargo from trucks to trains. Still, the project’s official \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221109312/Environmental-Impact-Report-on-Oakland-Army-Base-and-Air-Quality\">environmental analysis\u003c/a> predicts that it will “significantly and unavoidably” expose nearby residents to toxic air pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a worst-case scenario, the analysis says the project could raise a West Oaklander’s lifetime risk of cancer by close to 100 cases per 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That number might sound small. But local activists and health officials argue that West Oakland — a community that’s about half African-American and 85 percent nonwhite, where residents make about half the county’s average household income — is already bearing an unfair burden. Public health studies have found that the life expectancy for someone born and raised in West Oakland is at least 15 years less than someone born and raised in the Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health problems are not all because of air pollution. Still, David Vintze, the air quality planning manager at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, says West Oakland can’t take any more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our own studies have shown a two to three times increase in the amount of pollution in that community versus any other place in the Bay Area,” Vintze says. “That community is already too overburdened to be saturated with more particulate matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jahvonn lives in the Ironhorse apartment building on 14th Street, literally next door to Interstate 880 and directly across the freeway from the Army base. He calls his asthma attacks “heart attacks” and says they make his stomach hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mom, Charlotte Lynn, keeps him indoors more often since his diagnosis. When he does go outside, it’s often to the second-floor courtyard of his apartment building, where he and his friends ride bikes within direct view of the interstate. Many of them also have asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing by the courtyard’s railing, Lynn watches one tractor-trailer truck after another drive by, leaving the port of today. “All you can see is trucks on the freeway,” she says. “That’s it, trucks, trucks, trucks. See? There’s another one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Is Enough?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health concerns notwithstanding, everyone, including Vintze, wants the Army base project to go on. What’s disputed is whether the city is doing enough to limit emissions and protect West Oakland residents such as Jahvonn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackwell points to a thick \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221282783/Air-Pollution-Mitigation-Plan-for-Oakland-Army-Base-Redevelopment-Project\">air-quality plan\u003c/a>, dozens of pages long and required by state law, and says: “I think we have gone about as far as we can go to try to mitigate these issues while still having a viable project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vintze, along with the Alameda County Public Health Department and local environmental activists, disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has to be some other things put into place in order to limit the impact of what they’re going to do,” says county Public Health Director Muntu Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is doing more than the law demands in at least one regard, by requiring heavy construction vehicles, like backhoes, to install cleaner engine technology a year ahead of the state’s mandated schedule (though for some vehicles that’s still not for another two to four years).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But air quality and public health authorities wanted the city to go further. They \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221058904/BAAQMD-Letter-to-Oakland-7-22-13\">asked Oakland officials\u003c/a> to require diesel filters on all the trucks hauling materials to the construction site, as trucks serving the port must have. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221108341/Oakland-Response-Letter-to-BAAQMD-9-23-13\">city said no\u003c/a>. The City Council had voted to require that fully half the labor for this project come from Oakland, officials explained. And if they required expensive filters, they’d squeeze out too many small, independent Oakland truckers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The West Oakland community, it’s their health, it’s their life,” says Vintze. “It shouldn’t be minimized for profit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Tagami is an Oakland native, CEO of California Capital and Investment Group, and the project developer. He points out that he’s already meeting or exceeding the legal requirements for air quality control, and calls the regulators who are complaining about the project “rogue individuals” who have become overzealous in their oversight role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a handful of shake-down people who want to ring the bell and argue and complain that something more can be done, but I haven’t seen them create many jobs,” he says. “Yelling at the rain is not going to make the rain stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is, indeed, not stopping. Vintze and others have basically given up on further changing the construction plans. Now they’re hoping to get stronger protections into the plan for trade center operations in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134750\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 650px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/inhalers.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134750 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/inhalers.jpg\" alt=\"In Jahvonn Mair's preschool class of 22 students, 7 have been diagnosed with asthma and use an inhaler. Here they display their inhalers. From left to right, Akirah Armstrong, (behind) Adrian Kemp, RiJai Malone, Omarr Daniel (front), Jahvonn Mair and Sarquan Holland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"650\" height=\"452\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Jahvonn Mair’s preschool class of 22 students, seven have been diagnosed with asthma and use an inhaler. Here they display their inhalers. 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And there’s nothing in writing that says what the developer must do to correct it. Instead, says Blackwell, the city administrator, the monitors’ main purpose is to tell if overall pollution in the neighborhood rises or falls over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Unknowns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tagami and other proponents argue that the project could actually pave the way for cleaner air in West Oakland in the long run. It’ll enable companies to handle more cargo on site, instead of trucking it around the region for processing. And it could bring electric power to some cranes and docked ships instead of having them burn diesel. In fact, the California Transportation Commission, which is putting up nearly half the cost of the $500 million project, based its grant in part on the promise of cleaner air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, it’s impossible to predict now whether those improvements will be enough to totally counteract the emissions coming from ships, trains and trucks moving many tons more cargo each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beveridge says he hopes it will but — like the promise of economic benefits for West Oakland — he’ll believe it when he sees it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an old saying. … A rising tide raises all boats,” he says. “That’s great if you have a boat. But if you don’t have a boat, a rising tide just sooner or later goes above your nose and you’re finished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, across the interstate, Charlotte Lynn keeps the windows closed to the traffic. 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Now the building’s been sold, its occupants scattered, and the city’s supply of affordable nursing home beds is even smaller.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the families of these elders are helping their loved ones adjust to new and unfamiliar surroundings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Huey’s mom, Chu Huey, is 80 years old and now lives in Oakland at the McClure Convalescent Hospital. She has dementia and a slew of other medical problems. She lives her life bed-bound, so everything about her existence is determined by the care she gets at McClure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu Huey moved from Mission Bay late last year. She’s one of 35 patients who left before the home closed its doors in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shrinking Supply of Beds for Low-Income San Franciscans \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents like Chu Huey appreciated Mission Bay partly because it was familiar: There were bulletin boards with handwritten notices in Chinese, wall calendars in the good-luck colors of red and gold, and when families brought Chinese food with them, patients were surrounded with the smells of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mission Bay was housed in an aging building -- first built in 1917 -- and it needed major upgrades, like fire sprinklers and disabled access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission Bay housed only Medi-Cal patients, so its revenue was limited to the reimbursement it could get, which in 2013 was $185.39 per patient per day according to the state Department of Health Care Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, costs were growing faster than the reimbursements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for the owner, Bill Price, declined an interview request from KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143767118&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benson Nadell is director of the San Francisco Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, a federally-funded patient advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadell says San Francisco is steadily losing low-income nursing home beds. 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"content": "\u003cdiv>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/04/Jennifer-Glass-March-2013-chemo.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-18556\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/04/Jennifer-Glass-March-2013-chemo-640x529.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Glass of San Mateo, undergoing chemotherapy last year for lung cancer. (Courtesy: Mary Thomas)\" width=\"640\" height=\"529\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Glass of San Mateo, undergoing chemotherapy last year for lung cancer. (Courtesy: Mary Thomas)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A new campaign is underway to legalize physician-assisted suicide in California. Advocates launched a series of online ads last week to begin raising awareness. Still, it could take years for the effort to yield any results.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Having choice helps me feel I have some control.\" \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Since the early 1990s, lawmakers and activists have tried and failed several times to pass a death with dignity law in California. Under such a law doctors could prescribe lethal medications to patients who are terminally ill. Oregon and Washington permit the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is a large state. It’s a politically complicated state,” says Barbara Coombs Lee, president of Compassion and Choices. Her advocacy group is leading the effort to try again to pass a law through the legislature or ballot proposition that would make aid in dying accessible in California.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coombs Lee says most people want the prescription not to take the drug -- but just to have it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s having the medication that gives them the sense of comfort and control, peace of mind. They call it their security blanket, their insurance policy,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what it comes down to for San Mateo resident Jennifer Glass. When she was diagnosed with lung cancer last year, her mind immediately raced to a vision of a messy, chaotic death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that my life is going to end was not so frightening to me,” she says. “The idea that I might drown in my own lung fluid while my family watches me suffer. That is terrifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glass, 50, says at least having the option of controlling when and how she dies would bring her peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing that can prepare you for when you’re doctor looks you in the eye and tells you, 'you have cancer,'” she says. “But having choice helps me feel I have some control over a situation that is uncontrollable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her cancer is being managed now. But with California’s fraught history over this issue, it will take some time to see results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The time is now,” says Coombs Lee. “We all together have made a commitment to see aid in dying accessible, transparent, available to Californians within five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=\"Ivyr6AcIFcTADfQwgC7qu3U9hQk3lTTo\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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People of Asian descent make up about 14 percent of the \u003ca href=\"http://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/programs/health-economics/projects/CalSIM/Documents/CalSIM_Statewide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Covered California pool\u003c/a>, according to estimates compiled by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the UC Berkeley Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting with the first release of demographic data in January, Asians were already on target, reaching \u003ca href=\"http://news.coveredca.com/2014/01/milestone-enrollment-numbers-released.html\" target=\"_blank\">13.5 percent \u003c/a>of all enrollees. In the most recent data from Covered California, (for Oct. 1 to Feb. 28 enrollment), Asians advanced to \u003ca href=\"http://news.coveredca.com/2014/03/covered-california-begins-countdown-to.html\" target=\"_blank\">22.9 percent \u003c/a>of all enrollees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Licensed insurance brokers can sell customers plans on the Covered California marketplace, but they must first be specially certified to do so. Covered California says 40 percent of its total Covered California enrollments are coming via these certified insurance agents. But within certain Asian sub-populations, the percentage is much higher. Here's Covered California's breakdown:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>57 percent of Chinese enrollments are through certified insurance agents (CIAs)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>65 percent of Vietnamese enrollments are through CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>70 percent of Korean enrollments are through CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>These numbers \"suggest that the Asian agents are a driving force in helping Covered CA exceed our enrollment goal in Asian communities,\" Wendy McAnelly, a public information officer for Covered California, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This information was not a big surprise to Simon Chew. He runs \u003ca href=\"http://www.simon888.com/obamacare/free-quote-apply-obamacare-coveredca/\" target=\"_blank\">Ehealth-Plans\u003c/a>, an insurance business with four offices in San Francisco. 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They make up nearly half of the marketplace's pool, but only 22 percent of all enrollments. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/02/17/missteps-in-covered-californias-marketing-campaign-to-latinos/\" target=\"_blank\">Covered California has been faulted\u003c/a> for its missteps in signing up Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Asians, Latinos are generally not familiar with health insurance as a product, so this can make sign-ups more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of familiarity with health insurance may stretch to the broker community, too. Covered California has slightly more certified brokers who speak an Asian language than speak Spanish -- 15.31 percent vs. 15.06 percent -- yet Spanish speakers dwarf those who speak an Asian language in California:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>15.06 percent Spanish-speaking CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> 4.01 percent Mandarin-speaking CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> 2.96 percent Cantonese-speaking CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> 4.76 percent Korean-speaking CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> 3.58 percent Vietnamese-speaking CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There is no charge to consumers who work with agents, whose commissions are paid by insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overall Successful Enrollment May Hide Gaps\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Asians are not a monolithic group, advocates caution. Doreena Wong is with Advancing Justice in Los Angeles. Her group oversees the single statewide collaborative of community groups that handles outreach to Asians to encourage enrollment on Covered California. She was surprised by the success that brokers have had over community groups in sign-ups. \"I am surprised that is as high as it is,\" Wong said. \"I don't know if that means that most of the enrollees in these communities are English-speaking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community groups have long worried that those with limited-English skills would be left out of Covered California. 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Yet there are almost certainly undocumented Asian immigrants as well, and there does not seem to be the same level of fear. Wong believes that there may be a higher percentage of mixed-status Latino families than Asian families. \"That fear may not be as pervasive (with undocumented Asian immigrants) because the face of immigration is Latino, even though there are high numbers of Asian immigrants.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Asian Enrollment Likely to Get Tougher\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the modeling from UCLA and UC Berkeley, there are an estimated 370,000 Asians in the Covered California pool of potential enrollees. While their enrollment is strong, as of Feb. 28, slightly more than 160,000 had enrolled. 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