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Both bills, if signed by Newsom, will take effect in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Health\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 24:\u003c/strong> State lawmakers have passed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11772337/california-again-considers-making-abortion-pills-available-at-public-colleges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bill\u003c/a> that would require student health centers at all 34 state campuses to provide medication abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the measure becomes law, it will be the first of its kind in the U.S. The bill’s supporters say they want to remove the obstacles women face accessing medical abortion off campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a consortium of women’s groups that support abortion rights has promised to pay for all the required ultrasound equipment and upfront training costs of providing the abortion pill on campus, eventually universities would likely need to dip into tax dollars or student fees for ongoing costs — which abortion opponents object to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 276/SB 714:\u003c/strong> California Gov. 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But health department officials would review them only when a school’s immunization rate falls below 95% or when a doctor writes more than five medical exemptions per year (beginning in 2020).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The laws would also allow officials to revoke any medical exemptions written by doctors who have faced disciplinary action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since being introduced last year, hundreds of parents have protested the legislation, insisting it would disrupt confidential doctor-patient relationships and scare doctors from writing new exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 343:\u003c/strong> Under legislation signed into law last week, Kaiser Permanente will have to share more information — like other insurers do — on revenue and expenses at each of its facilities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article234806097.html#storylink=cpy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> reported. The legislation was introduced on behalf of Kaiser’s largest union, the Service Employees International Union, which has been in contract negotiations for roughly a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 1482\u003c/strong> marks the biggest victory for California renter protections in decades. It would create a statewide limit on rent increases of 5% plus inflation, and requires that landlords provide a “just cause” when evicting tenants who have been renting for a year. The limits on rent hikes don’t go nearly as far as local rent control laws in places like San Francisco and Oakland, but it would cover millions of Californians whose units don’t already have such protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure exempts units under 15 years old, but it was opposed by real estate agents who argued that the legislation would discourage construction of rental housing. Newsom has committed to signing the bill, which will sunset after 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 1487\u003c/strong>, which has been sent to Newsom, would allow for a Bay Area regional ballot measure to raise money for affordable housing. Previous measures on ballots in the nine counties have raised taxes to pay for transportation and bay restoration. The executive board of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) would decide what form a potential revenue-raising measure would take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 330\u003c/strong>, which has been sent to Newsom, would prohibit local governments from downzoning by either placing a moratorium on development or lowering the number of housing units permitted. It also would speed up the permitting process for development. The provision sunsets after five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Law Enforcement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 22\u003c/strong> requires prompt testing of newly collected rape kits in Califonia. Under the bill, new rape kits must be submitted for testing within 20 days and actually tested with 120 days. The bill’s author, Senator Connie Leyva (D-Chino) says the measure would help solve crimes and prevent testing backlogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Survivors should never have to wait years or even decades for their rape kits to be tested and it is outrageous that collected evidence could ever sit on a shelf untested,” Leyva said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 230 \u003c/strong>is meant to reduce the use of force among law enforcement agencies. Governor Newsom has signed it into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law requires agencies to maintain a policy providing guidelines on the use of force. That policy must also include de-escalation techniques and other alternatives to force, and specific guidelines for when deadly force can be used. In addition, the agencies’ policies must include a way to evaluate and review all use- of-force incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 230\u003c/strong> is meant to be used in conjunction with \u003cstrong>AB 392\u003c/strong>, which Newsom signed into law in August. It states law enforcement can use deadly force only when “necessary,” rather than just “reasonable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 61\u003c/strong> would expand the scope of people able to request a gun violence restraining order against a person they believe is a danger to themselves or others. Currently, only immediate family members and police are allowed to make a request. This measure would allow employers, co-workers, schoolteachers and employees to request a restraining order as well. The legislation has been sent to Newsom for his signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 1215\u003c/strong> places a three-year ban on the use of facial recognition technology on body cameras by the state and local law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was supported by the ACLU, which said the technology is not ready for prime time. To prove its point, the ACLU entered photos of all 120 state legislators into a database of mugshots. The software incorrectly identified 26 of the lawmakers as criminals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and Oakland have already passed similar legislation. The bill has been sent to Newsom for his signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prisons\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 32\u003c/strong> would ban the use of private for-profit prisons and detention centers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill author Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) said there’s no room for the facilities in the state. “California should not be home to companies that are profiteering from the tearing of innocent children from their families. This is inhumane and goes against who we are as Californians and Americans,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the measure would reduce the state’s options for dealing with prison overcrowding and put more pressure on local jails to hold dangerous inmates. The legislation has been sent to Newsom for his signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 132,\u003c/strong> which would allow transgender prisoners in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to be housed according to their gender identity, and not their sex assigned at birth, will be carried over to the next session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California would be the third state in the nation to pass such legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, said the coalition supporting the legislation had decided to make it a two-year bill so they could “come to a solution that works for” the community, CDCR and Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transgender people in our prison system are among the most marginalized people in society, and we must protect them,” he said Friday in a statement. “Over the fall recess, I will join community leaders to visit several state prisons to meet with transgender people who are incarcerated there. This listening tour will help us craft the best legislation possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 136\u003c/strong> is part of a larger push in California to roll back tough on crime laws that helped pack prisons and jails to the brim and resulted in ballooning corrections spending in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would end the practice of automatically adding an extra year to a defendant’s sentence if they had previously served time for a felony. Wiener said 11,000 people currently in prison have this extra year tacked on at a cost of $80,000 a year. State officials estimate that the change would save taxpayers $80 million a year. The legislation has passed the Legislature and is heading to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Environment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 792\u003c/strong> would establish a minimum level of recycled content – 50% – in plastic bottles by 2035. On Monday, Assemblyman Phil Ting introduced another bill, \u003cstrong>AB 54\u003c/strong>, to bring temporary relief to cities feeling the bite from the sudden closure of recycling centers across the state. The bill provides $10 million for recycling centers and gives grocers a reprieve from paying some recycling fees. Both bills passed the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 1\u003c/strong> is aimed at blunting any weakening of federal environmental laws in California by the Trump Administration. It was sent to Gov. Newsom early Saturday morning with strong backing from environmental groups, despite vigorous objections from Sen. Dianne Feinstein and some water groups who warned against creating two sets of environmental standards. If signed by the governor (or allowed to take effect without his signature) it would replace any federal environmental regulation (Clean Power Plan, Endangered Species Act, etc.) with a state alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 1080 and SB 54:\u003c/strong> The legislative session ended without passage of the bills, which would have enacted the strongest plastic pollution rules in the U.S. The bills are eligible to be considered next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan required plastics manufacturers to take responsibility for the fate of their products — from coffee cup lids to takeout boxes to plastic packaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses would have had to ensure that plastic forks, for example, are recyclable or face a potential ban. If the bill had passed, all of the state’s single-use plastic utensils would need to be recyclable or compostable by 2030, and companies must reduce waste from plastic packaging by 75%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Wildfires\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 160:\u003c/strong> This bill mandates that counties include “cultural competence” into emergency plans. It’s partially a response to elderly and non-English-speaking residents who missed emergency alerts during the state’s recent wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which has been sent to Newsom for his signature, calls for local communities to hold public forums that represent residents of many backgrounds when counties plan their emergency protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 520\u003c/strong> would give utilities like PG&E the designation of “provider of last resort” in the areas they serve. Utilities already enjoy that privilege in practice, but the law sponsored by Sen. Robert Hertzberg would enshrine it in the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the bill could limit the options that cities and counties have to wrest control from utilities and run them municipally, and limit opportunities for community choice aggregation just as they are starting to thrive. The legislation has been sent to Newsom for his signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other Notable Bills\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 206:\u003c/strong> NBA icon LeBron James threw his weight behind SB 206, the “Fair Pay to Play” bill by East Bay Sen. Nancy Skinner that would allow student-athletes at all four-year colleges in California to sign endorsement deals and receive compensation for the use of their names, images or likenesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But NCAA President Mark Emmert wrote in a letter to Newsom that signing the legislation could make it “impossible to host fair national championships.” He also implied that if the bill became law, athletes at California schools could be barred from competing in NCAA national championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, the Senate and the Assembly passed the bill without any opposition. Now — will LeBron be there for the bill signing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 44: \u003c/strong>Anti-fur advocates have long sought a ban on killing animals for their fur. And if Newsom signs this bill, which he said he will in a tweet, California will become the first state in the nation to ban the creation of new fur products. Republican critics said the state was once again telling Californians what they can and cannot do (the nanny state argument) and that it was disrespectful to Native Americans, whose cultures value fur. The mink, rabbit and coyote communities are no doubt pleased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 1505\u003c/strong> seeks to more closely regulate California’s 1,300 charter schools. It would allow school districts to consider the impact to the community and the neighborhood schools when reviewing applications for new or expanded charter schools. It would require charter school teachers to be credentialed and establishes a two-year moratorium on non-classroom based charter schools. The legislation has been sent to Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 313:\u003c/strong> Another victory for furry citizens of California, this bill would ban the use of wild animals in circus acts, including bears, elephants, tigers and monkeys. If signed by Newsom, California will become the third state after New Jersey and Hawaii to enact such a ban.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The final day of session for the California State Legislature was disrupted late Friday afternoon when a woman in the Senate gallery \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/0ff009de977741e0abdd8568d9d80a29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tossed\u003c/a> what the California Highway Patrol said was a substance that “appeared to be blood” onto the Senate floor while yelling “That’s for the dead babies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay Sen. Steve Glazer (D-Orinda) said the liquid landed on his head and splashed onto five other senators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman, identified as 43-year-old Rebecca Dalelio of Santa Cruz County, is linked to some of the anti-vaccine protesters demonstrating in recent weeks over the passage of Senate Bills 276 and 714 aimed at tightening up medical exemptions for children’s vaccines. She was arrested and charged with assault, vandalism and disrupting the business at hand in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP cordoned off the Senate, forcing lawmakers, media and others to move into a committee room to finish its business hours later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are some of the highlights from this legislative session, including bills that have already been signed into law, are awaiting signature or are in limbo until next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Children’s Issues\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 378:\u003c/strong> In-home child care providers would be allowed to unionize under this measure. Supporters said unionizing could give child care workers a voice and encourage them to stay in the industry. The bill has made it through the Legislature. Several similar bills have either died or been vetoed by governors in the past. But supporters are hoping this measure will be signed by Governor Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 337/AB 1092:\u003c/strong> Lawmakers sent Newsom two bills aimed at making sure more low-income kids in California benefit from child support payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, a quarter of a million California families only receive $50 a month in child support payments, even if the non-custodial parent is paying hundreds of dollars more each month in child support. This happens when a family is also receiving government assistance, like welfare or Medi-Cal. The government takes the rest of the money to repay the public for the cost of those safety net programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And parents that fail to pay their required child support on time see huge interest added to those debts — 10% a year. In addition to the crippling debt that racks up, parents can also lose their driver’s license, or go to jail if they fall too far behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two bills now on Newsom’s desk would change that: Oakland Sen. Nancy Skinner’s SB337 will increase the amount of child support paid to families on welfare assistance. Families with one child will get $100 a month under the bill; families with two or more kids will receive $200 a month. And AB 1092 will end the practice of adding interest to child support debt. Both bills, if signed by Newsom, will take effect in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Health\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 24:\u003c/strong> State lawmakers have passed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11772337/california-again-considers-making-abortion-pills-available-at-public-colleges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bill\u003c/a> that would require student health centers at all 34 state campuses to provide medication abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the measure becomes law, it will be the first of its kind in the U.S. The bill’s supporters say they want to remove the obstacles women face accessing medical abortion off campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a consortium of women’s groups that support abortion rights has promised to pay for all the required ultrasound equipment and upfront training costs of providing the abortion pill on campus, eventually universities would likely need to dip into tax dollars or student fees for ongoing costs — which abortion opponents object to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 276/SB 714:\u003c/strong> California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11773308/anti-vaccine-protesters-swarm-capitol-as-lawmakers-pass-bill-limiting-medical-exemptions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pair of bills\u003c/a> into law earlier this week to crack down on doctors who write fraudulent medical exemptions for schoolchildren’s vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news laws would create state oversight of medical exemptions for vaccines required by most schools and day care centers in California. Under them, the state would begin collecting medical exemptions electronically by Jan. 1, 2021. But health department officials would review them only when a school’s immunization rate falls below 95% or when a doctor writes more than five medical exemptions per year (beginning in 2020).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The laws would also allow officials to revoke any medical exemptions written by doctors who have faced disciplinary action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since being introduced last year, hundreds of parents have protested the legislation, insisting it would disrupt confidential doctor-patient relationships and scare doctors from writing new exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 343:\u003c/strong> Under legislation signed into law last week, Kaiser Permanente will have to share more information — like other insurers do — on revenue and expenses at each of its facilities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article234806097.html#storylink=cpy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> reported. The legislation was introduced on behalf of Kaiser’s largest union, the Service Employees International Union, which has been in contract negotiations for roughly a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 1482\u003c/strong> marks the biggest victory for California renter protections in decades. It would create a statewide limit on rent increases of 5% plus inflation, and requires that landlords provide a “just cause” when evicting tenants who have been renting for a year. The limits on rent hikes don’t go nearly as far as local rent control laws in places like San Francisco and Oakland, but it would cover millions of Californians whose units don’t already have such protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure exempts units under 15 years old, but it was opposed by real estate agents who argued that the legislation would discourage construction of rental housing. Newsom has committed to signing the bill, which will sunset after 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 1487\u003c/strong>, which has been sent to Newsom, would allow for a Bay Area regional ballot measure to raise money for affordable housing. Previous measures on ballots in the nine counties have raised taxes to pay for transportation and bay restoration. The executive board of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) would decide what form a potential revenue-raising measure would take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 330\u003c/strong>, which has been sent to Newsom, would prohibit local governments from downzoning by either placing a moratorium on development or lowering the number of housing units permitted. It also would speed up the permitting process for development. The provision sunsets after five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Law Enforcement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 22\u003c/strong> requires prompt testing of newly collected rape kits in Califonia. Under the bill, new rape kits must be submitted for testing within 20 days and actually tested with 120 days. The bill’s author, Senator Connie Leyva (D-Chino) says the measure would help solve crimes and prevent testing backlogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Survivors should never have to wait years or even decades for their rape kits to be tested and it is outrageous that collected evidence could ever sit on a shelf untested,” Leyva said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 230 \u003c/strong>is meant to reduce the use of force among law enforcement agencies. Governor Newsom has signed it into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law requires agencies to maintain a policy providing guidelines on the use of force. That policy must also include de-escalation techniques and other alternatives to force, and specific guidelines for when deadly force can be used. In addition, the agencies’ policies must include a way to evaluate and review all use- of-force incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 230\u003c/strong> is meant to be used in conjunction with \u003cstrong>AB 392\u003c/strong>, which Newsom signed into law in August. It states law enforcement can use deadly force only when “necessary,” rather than just “reasonable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 61\u003c/strong> would expand the scope of people able to request a gun violence restraining order against a person they believe is a danger to themselves or others. Currently, only immediate family members and police are allowed to make a request. This measure would allow employers, co-workers, schoolteachers and employees to request a restraining order as well. The legislation has been sent to Newsom for his signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 1215\u003c/strong> places a three-year ban on the use of facial recognition technology on body cameras by the state and local law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was supported by the ACLU, which said the technology is not ready for prime time. To prove its point, the ACLU entered photos of all 120 state legislators into a database of mugshots. The software incorrectly identified 26 of the lawmakers as criminals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and Oakland have already passed similar legislation. The bill has been sent to Newsom for his signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prisons\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 32\u003c/strong> would ban the use of private for-profit prisons and detention centers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill author Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) said there’s no room for the facilities in the state. “California should not be home to companies that are profiteering from the tearing of innocent children from their families. This is inhumane and goes against who we are as Californians and Americans,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the measure would reduce the state’s options for dealing with prison overcrowding and put more pressure on local jails to hold dangerous inmates. The legislation has been sent to Newsom for his signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 132,\u003c/strong> which would allow transgender prisoners in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to be housed according to their gender identity, and not their sex assigned at birth, will be carried over to the next session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California would be the third state in the nation to pass such legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, said the coalition supporting the legislation had decided to make it a two-year bill so they could “come to a solution that works for” the community, CDCR and Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transgender people in our prison system are among the most marginalized people in society, and we must protect them,” he said Friday in a statement. “Over the fall recess, I will join community leaders to visit several state prisons to meet with transgender people who are incarcerated there. This listening tour will help us craft the best legislation possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 136\u003c/strong> is part of a larger push in California to roll back tough on crime laws that helped pack prisons and jails to the brim and resulted in ballooning corrections spending in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would end the practice of automatically adding an extra year to a defendant’s sentence if they had previously served time for a felony. Wiener said 11,000 people currently in prison have this extra year tacked on at a cost of $80,000 a year. State officials estimate that the change would save taxpayers $80 million a year. The legislation has passed the Legislature and is heading to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Environment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 792\u003c/strong> would establish a minimum level of recycled content – 50% – in plastic bottles by 2035. On Monday, Assemblyman Phil Ting introduced another bill, \u003cstrong>AB 54\u003c/strong>, to bring temporary relief to cities feeling the bite from the sudden closure of recycling centers across the state. The bill provides $10 million for recycling centers and gives grocers a reprieve from paying some recycling fees. Both bills passed the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 1\u003c/strong> is aimed at blunting any weakening of federal environmental laws in California by the Trump Administration. It was sent to Gov. Newsom early Saturday morning with strong backing from environmental groups, despite vigorous objections from Sen. Dianne Feinstein and some water groups who warned against creating two sets of environmental standards. If signed by the governor (or allowed to take effect without his signature) it would replace any federal environmental regulation (Clean Power Plan, Endangered Species Act, etc.) with a state alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AB 1080 and SB 54:\u003c/strong> The legislative session ended without passage of the bills, which would have enacted the strongest plastic pollution rules in the U.S. The bills are eligible to be considered next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan required plastics manufacturers to take responsibility for the fate of their products — from coffee cup lids to takeout boxes to plastic packaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses would have had to ensure that plastic forks, for example, are recyclable or face a potential ban. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20683\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/5371998566_179533eed7_z.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-20683\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/5371998566_179533eed7_z.jpg\" alt=\"Kaiser Permanente's lower rates on the California health exchange for 2015 may be meant to attract customers. (Ted Eytan/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/5371998566_179533eed7_z.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/5371998566_179533eed7_z-400x330.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/5371998566_179533eed7_z-320x264.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser Permanente's lower rates on the California health exchange for 2015 may be meant to attract customers. (Ted Eytan/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As all the other health insurers on California's Obamacare exchange raise their rates for next year, Kaiser Permanente plans to lower them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/healthcare/la-fi-obamacare-california-rates-20140810-story.html\">reports\u003c/a> that a new analysis by Citigroup shows Kaiser's premiums dropping by 1.4 percent in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the average premium across all plans on the Covered California exchange will rise 4.2 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citigroup health care analyst Carl McDonald told the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> he thinks Kaiser's move is meant to draw customers:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kaiser was among the most expensive health plans in 2014 and staggered to a fourth-place finish in exchange enrollment. Anthem Blue Cross was the leader statewide, followed by Blue Shield of California and Health Net Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Kaiser doesn’t seem particularly happy with its exchange market share, as it is the only company reducing exchange premiums in 2015,\" McDonald said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>McDonald's report predicts premiums for the other Covered California plans will rise as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>Anthem Blue Cross: 4.6 percent\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>Blue Shield: 6 percent\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Health Net: 4.9 percent\u003c/p>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>(Note that Kaiser's plans on the exchange are different from its employer-based plans and typically have deductibles.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">These rate changes give us a glimpse of the market forces at work.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Rates for Obamacare exchange plans are rising nationwide, too, but not to the level of the double-digit \"sticker shock\" forecast in Congressional debates last year, \u003ca href=\"http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/214847-average-premium-under-obamacare-to-rise-75-percent\">reports\u003c/a> \u003cem>The Hill\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new PricewaterhouseCoopers analysis shows the price of health plans on Obamacare exchanges will rise by an average of 7.5 percent next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's significant to note that the exchanges were meant to create a new, more competitive market for health insurance. And these rate changes give us a glimpse of the market forces at work. \u003cem>The Hill\u003c/em> explains:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The healthcare law's first enrollment period was a major test for the insurance industry, which set premium prices with little information about exactly who might sign up for coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2015 rates shed light on how well their guesses panned out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies are generally raising prices if their new customers are older, sicker or will use more medical care than projected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firms with a healthier pool, on the other hand, have an incentive to lower premiums.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>State regulators still have to review and approve the California plan prices before enrollment opens on Nov. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Healthline contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20683\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/5371998566_179533eed7_z.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-20683\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/5371998566_179533eed7_z.jpg\" alt=\"Kaiser Permanente's lower rates on the California health exchange for 2015 may be meant to attract customers. (Ted Eytan/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/5371998566_179533eed7_z.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/5371998566_179533eed7_z-400x330.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/5371998566_179533eed7_z-320x264.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser Permanente's lower rates on the California health exchange for 2015 may be meant to attract customers. (Ted Eytan/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As all the other health insurers on California's Obamacare exchange raise their rates for next year, Kaiser Permanente plans to lower them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/healthcare/la-fi-obamacare-california-rates-20140810-story.html\">reports\u003c/a> that a new analysis by Citigroup shows Kaiser's premiums dropping by 1.4 percent in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the average premium across all plans on the Covered California exchange will rise 4.2 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citigroup health care analyst Carl McDonald told the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> he thinks Kaiser's move is meant to draw customers:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kaiser was among the most expensive health plans in 2014 and staggered to a fourth-place finish in exchange enrollment. Anthem Blue Cross was the leader statewide, followed by Blue Shield of California and Health Net Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Kaiser doesn’t seem particularly happy with its exchange market share, as it is the only company reducing exchange premiums in 2015,\" McDonald said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>McDonald's report predicts premiums for the other Covered California plans will rise as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>Anthem Blue Cross: 4.6 percent\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>Blue Shield: 6 percent\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Health Net: 4.9 percent\u003c/p>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>(Note that Kaiser's plans on the exchange are different from its employer-based plans and typically have deductibles.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">These rate changes give us a glimpse of the market forces at work.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Rates for Obamacare exchange plans are rising nationwide, too, but not to the level of the double-digit \"sticker shock\" forecast in Congressional debates last year, \u003ca href=\"http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/214847-average-premium-under-obamacare-to-rise-75-percent\">reports\u003c/a> \u003cem>The Hill\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20235\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/photo-3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-20235\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/photo-3-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Kaiser Permanente's newly opened medical center in Oakland. (Lisa Aliferis/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser Permanente's newly opened medical center in Oakland. (Lisa Aliferis/KQED) \u003ccite>(Lisa Aliferis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is the second of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/07/01/sonoma-co-supervisor-presses-kaiser-on-mental-health-services/\" target=\"_blank\">two parts\u003c/a> about mental health services at Northern California Kaiser.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2013 a woman named “Nina” had a terrible falling out with her father. Soon after, she found out he had incurable cancer and was going to die. In the ensuing weeks, she tried to patch things up, but with the pressures inherent in the last months of a dying man, was unable to attain any form of closure. Some six months after their fight, he was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"People are suffering, and I fear some of my patients will commit suicide for lack of ongoing treatment.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Nina,\" who did not want us to use her real name for reasons of privacy, had been prone to depression. Zoloft had helped, but the now irreparable family rift left her severely depressed, with occasional thoughts of suicide. \"I was in a state of constant emotional pain and confusion,\" she says. “It was affecting all aspects of my life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She went for an intake appointment at the psychiatric department at Kaiser Permanente’s Oakland Medical Center, with the expectation she'd be able to see a therapist for individual appointments during this severe emotional crisis. She requested those sessions, but the intake therapist told her Kaiser only offered group therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said I'm not comfortable talking about my situation with a bunch of strangers,” Nina says. “She very kindly tried to make me aware of the value of group therapy. But I knew in my heart it wasn’t where I wanted to be.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina left even more dispirited. Over the next year, she white-knuckled her depression on her own, before having the epiphany that maybe her medication needed adjustment. She went to see a Kaiser psychiatrist and mentioned she’d been told there was no individual therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The psychiatrist seemed startled. She told Nina individual therapy was offered. “They probably just didn’t have the space,” the psychiatrist said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina was shocked. “I could not believe that a professional therapist would lie to an obviously depressed patient who was sincerely seeking help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She finally did get to see a Kaiser therapist, whom she describes as “fantastic,” but who told her she could only book Nina maybe once every four weeks. At that point, Nina's expectations had been lowered to the point she was grateful to get any therapy at all. She also availed herself of a free Kaiser yoga class, which she considers to have been useful in her recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her therapist, she says, is really helping her with the depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Nina's contact with Kaiser’s psychiatric department left her unnerved. “I started thinking maybe it’s my problem,” she says about her rejection of group therapy. \"It just added to my anxiety. But to share with other people what I was going through was just too much for me at that time. How depressed did this therapist need me to be in order to make room in the schedule for individual therapy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kaiser Under Fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Kaiser was\u003ca href=\"http://www.dmhc.ca.gov/Portals/0/AboutDMHC/PressReleases/2013/prkmhs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> fined $4 million\u003c/a> by the California Department of Managed Health Care for not accurately tracking patient waiting times for initial mental health appointments. And now the health plan is in the middle of another controversy over its mental health care: Some of its therapists and patients say there is a dangerous lack of access to individual therapy appointments and an over-reliance on group therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser maintains that hiring in its psychiatric departments is up, and that patients do not have problems getting appropriate care. It points to its high rating in behavioral and mental health on the \u003ca href=\"http://reportcard.opa.ca.gov/rc2014/hmotopic.aspx?Category=HMOHEDIS&Topic=MentalHealthCare\" target=\"_blank\">2014 California Office of the Patient Advocate report card\u003c/a>. In addition, it has asserted that much of the controversy has been fueled by the union representing mental health clinicians, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), which has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2012/1/24/three-unions-announce-one-day-strike-at-kaiser-over-labor-negotiations\" target=\"_blank\">embroiled in contract negotiations\u003c/a> with Kaiser since 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reporting this story I talked to some two dozen current and former Kaiser clinicians and mental health patients as well as outside therapists. The vast majority express similar complaints: While health plans are required to provide medically necessary appointments within 10 business days, Kaiser patients have to wait long periods, sometimes months, between individual therapy appointments. These critics say Kaiser is referring patients to group therapy even in cases where ongoing individual sessions are clinically necessary. The reason, the union and clinicians say, is a serious staff shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Therapists, Patients Speak Out\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/07/01/sonoma-co-supervisor-presses-kaiser-on-mental-health-services/\" target=\"_blank\">we've reported\u003c/a>, the issue came to a head this year when a \u003ca href=\"http://90daystochange.com/\" target=\"_blank\">behind-the-scenes blog \u003c/a>by Andy Weisskoff, a now-former therapist at the health plan’s Santa Rosa Medical Center, detailed long waiting times for therapy appointments and the deleterious effects on both patients and therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I see someone today with suicidal thoughts ... I am often uncertain how well they’ll fare in the intervening weeks,” he \u003ca href=\"http://90daystochange.com/2014/03/04/even-if-youre-thinking-of-killing-yourself/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote\u003c/a>. “Did I miss something in our hour long interview?… Maybe I should have sent them to our intensive outpatient group instead of a skills group designed for people who are higher functioning. And then I wait, at least a month, to see if my intuition, one way or another, was correct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Kaiser therapist from a Northern California facility described similar concerns. She wants to remain anonymous out of fear for her job. She is unnerved by the common practice of steering patients into groups instead of individual therapy sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel unethical when I go home at night, and feel really guilty,” she said. \"People are suffering, and I fear some of my patients will commit suicide for lack of ongoing treatment, but I’m powerless to treat them because I don’t have return visits available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another therapist who worked at a South Bay Kaiser says she quit her position earlier this year because she considered the treatment of patients there \"unethical.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"We believe these descriptions are not reflective of the millions of mental health visits we provide each year in Northern California.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Patients that need individual therapy are not getting it,” she said. “We had to tell patients we offer group therapy. ... The patients that are the most severely mentally ill are the ones that can’t speak up for themselves, and the ones who get lost in the system. With the Affordable Care Act, we’re seeing more and more of those patients.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of Kaiser patients also reported similar dissatisfaction with the unavailability of individual sessions. Loran Watkins’ story was typical of the complaints many patients described to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watkins, 53, said that in 2010 her husband was battling cancer and \"desperately needed therapy to get through this. They said he could go to a group. There was no way in God's green earth he would have gone to a group. He was already a social introvert, was on six different kinds of pain medications so his ability to focus was very limited.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \"pushing and pushing and pushing,\" Watkins says, her husband was finally given the okay to see a therapist, but only once a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here you have a man actively battling cancer, was relapsing,\" she said. \"After the seventh or eighth appointment, the therapist said he was retiring, and that there were no more appointments available.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watkins added that when her own longtime therapist at Kaiser's Walnut Creek medical center retired, she told Watkins there was no replacement available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I asked her for a referral. She said there's no one to refer you to. The only thing I can do is they will place me in a group type setting; there's no individual therapy appointments anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser responded to an email outlining these accounts and disputed the allegations that individual therapy is not available:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We apologize if there are members who may have received incorrect information about the availability of services. All of our medical centers provide individual therapy as part of the wide range of mental health treatments available to Kaiser Permanente patients.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We encourage our members and staff to share their concerns, and we investigate thoroughly and work to resolve any issues. We take the examples in your email very seriously. Out of respect for patient privacy, we cannot respond in the media about individual cases. Each patient’s concern is important to us and we will investigate with the information we have. We believe these descriptions are not reflective of the millions of mental health visits we provide each year in Northern California, but we recognize that we have opportunities to make our program even better and are committed to doing so.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Group Therapy vs. Individual Therapy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Mason Turner is Kaiser’s director of patient operations for regional mental health services in Northern California. He takes umbrage at the notion that individual therapy is the “gold standard,” as he puts it, and that group therapy is somehow inferior. “This is a disservice to the hundreds of thousands of Kaiser Permanente members -- and millions throughout the country -- who have benefited from this type of proven, effective treatment and to the mental health professionals, including our Kaiser Permanente therapists, who provide it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no evidence that individual psychotherapy is superior to group therapy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Dr. John Norcross, a psychology professor at the University of Scranton, if that was true. Norcross’ research is on treatment adaptations -- \"how to tailor therapy for individual patients,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norcross is a “big supporter” of group therapy, but only when indicated. And group treatment is contraindicated, he said, if the patient has a strong preference for individual therapy. That can make a difference in both retention of the patient and effectiveness of the treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are dozens of studies that show we should always begin with patients’ preferences if ethically or clinically possible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I recounted to him the experience of Nina, the woman who had expressed a preference for individual therapy at Kaiser Oakland and was erroneously told it wasn’t offered. Norcross said in her case a group would not be effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this woman wants 50 minutes to express and resolve longstanding conflicts, you’re not going to get that kind of opportunity in a therapy group of 6-12 people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Weisskoff, the former Kaiser therapist who blogged about his experience at Kaiser Santa Rosa, wrote that only a quarter of those who were referred to groups attended one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The assertion that groups are better than individual therapy is a little bit beside the point if they don’t go to the groups in the first place,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some patients who I spoke with amplified his concern. For example, a 60-year-old woman who uses Kaiser’s Roseville facility and suffers from panic disorder said the last time she had an appointment, the therapist told her she could be seen maybe once every three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead she was sent to a group, where she says the discussions triggered her anxiety attacks. She estimated the number of patients in another group at about two dozen -- “like cattle in there, how can anyone’s needs be met?” she said. So she quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On disability because of her anxiety, unable to tolerate medication, and with the cost of an outside therapist out of reach, she sees no available options. “There’s nowhere for me to go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corlene Van Sluizer described the same lack of options for her sister, 71. Her sister was ordered into an inpatient facility this year after telling her Kaiser Santa Rosa psychiatrist of plans to commit suicide, Van Sluizer says. Even with a diagnosis of major depression, after being released she was told she’d have to pay for any individual therapy on her own. Instead, she was sent to a group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It lasted 6 sessions. She got no benefit from it,” Van Sluizer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many non-Kaiser therapists sent me emails asserting some of their patients have been forced to pay out-of-pocket because they cannot get individual therapy at Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A typical response came from Karen Taylor, a therapist in Campbell: “(I) see a number of Kaiser clients. (Kaiser) tells them to go to a group or will only see them every six weeks for private therapy. Neither of these options have been appropriate or effective for my clients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A therapist who wanted to remain anonymous said that a patient was referred to her by Kaiser staff following his suicide attempt and hospitalization. “I considered him high risk for a second suicide. He attempted again soon after our intake. None of these incidents convinced Kaiser to provide individual therapy to him. … Kaiser continued to refer him to groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Kaiser said therapists have a responsibility to inform more senior staff of need for specific services:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The well-being of our patients is our primary concern. We would expect any therapist with concerns about a patient's urgent needs to immediately respond and escalate appropriately, and we support them in doing so.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kaiser Disputes Shortage of Staff\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser's Dr. Turner says any notion that a staff shortage is driving the choice of treatment options is untrue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have nearly 14 percent more therapists in Northern California than three years ago, and we are continuing to recruit and hire,” he told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Kaiser mental health staff say any new hiring hasn’t kept up with the influx of patients due to Obamacare. But Turner disputes that. “Staffing increases (have) increased significantly ahead of membership growth,” he said. “Seventy percent of our therapy is individual psychotherapy.\" While that figure includes the intake sessions for new patients, Turner said the “bulk” of the 70 percent figure is for return visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say that 4-6 weeks is the time between visits is not accurate,” Turner said. “We encourage therapists to look at all the different contact modalities: telephone appointments, email visits, and individual visits, to understand how best to reach out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called Kaiser’s system of care “multi-modal, highly integrated,” and listed medication management, crisis intervention, “evidence-based group programs,” and intensive outpatient and inpatient services among its services for mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner says patients can get individual therapy at more frequent intervals if they, in consultation with their therapist, consider that is the best course of treatment. He also put the responsibility for arranging appropriate care on therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would expect our therapists, if they thought (a patient) needed to be seen sooner, would elect to discuss it with their manager and look for alternative times. Or have a discussion with their colleagues how they’ve managed patients like that before. It’s really up to the patient and therapist to make sure that occurs. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(But) we have ways of accommodating this when it comes up.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bringing Concerns to Management\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Oakland psychologist Melinda Ginne says she tried that, to no avail. She and other Kaiser clinicians eventually went to California's Department of Managed Health Care with their complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the past two-and-a-half years I have (been) writing my management about … the dangerously long wait times for a return appointment,” she told me. “The response was literally nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginne works with seniors and patients who have serious physical ailments like cancer. She sent me the email she wrote to Kaiser managers last September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My patients have been waiting 3 months for a routine follow-up appointment,” she wrote. “This has been a dire situation with often adverse consequences for the patients. But now they must wait 5 months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Believe me,” she continued. “I can’t tell a patient with 3-6 months to live that I’ll see them in 5 months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One former Kaiser therapist said she brought her concerns about patients not getting enough individual therapy to management “multiple times throughout the five years I was there, and they just don’t want to hear it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it was possible for a therapist to get approval to see a client individually, but only by “really insist(ing). And even if they feel the patient needs it, they don’t have room on their schedule because of the way Kaiser books them back to back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kaiser’s Regulator Weighs In\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marta Green, the California Department of Managed Health Care’s (DMHC) deputy director of communications and planning, said whether Kaiser is in violation of regulations would depend on whether it displayed a pattern of steering patients to groups instead of medically necessary individual sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the medically necessary care to treat an enrollee's condition is an individual therapy session, then the plan must make that session available within a clinically appropriate timeframe and comply with the regulatory timeframes\" of 10 business days,” she wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, if a physician or triage professional, using professionally recognized standards of practice, determines that a longer waiting time will not have a detrimental impact on a patient, that period between appointments may legally be extended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green said if Kaiser can't provide individual therapy to a patient that needs it, then Kaiser would be obligated to partially pay for outside therapy. Any Kaiser enrollees who think this situation may apply to them should file a claim with Kaiser at the same time they \u003ca href=\"http://www.dmhc.ca.gov/FileaComplaint/ConsumerIndependentMedicalReviewComplaint.aspx#.U8gtb41dWSM\" target=\"_blank\">ask the DHMC for a free independent medical review\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Against this backdrop of reports of patient and therapist dissatisfaction, Kaiser maintains that staffing complaints are driven by its four-year-plus contract negotiation with the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents many of the therapists. In its statement to KQED, Kaiser said the union \"has not been cooperative in finding solutions that will enable us to meet our members' needs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, Kaiser has \"entered into an agreement with Value Options,\" a network of mental health providers, to \"make sure that our members have timely access to therapists when we need flexibility in staffing.\" But NUHW \"has so far not agreed to this solution -- despite the union making it clear that its members would not be able to take on the extra demand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Seavey of the NUHW responds that clinicians have requested to bargain with Kaiser “about the impact of these changes -- for example, how these changes in the acuity levels of their patients will affect clinicians' schedules, caseloads, etc and whether Kaiser should alter the productivity quotas under which clinicians currently operate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seavey says Kaiser's clinicians have tried to get Kaiser to address staffing shortages for years. “Kaiser has simply turned a blind eye to them,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A follow-up DMHC report to the one that resulted in last year’s $4 million fine is due in the fall. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20235\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/photo-3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-20235\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/photo-3-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Kaiser Permanente's newly opened medical center in Oakland. (Lisa Aliferis/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser Permanente's newly opened medical center in Oakland. (Lisa Aliferis/KQED) \u003ccite>(Lisa Aliferis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is the second of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/07/01/sonoma-co-supervisor-presses-kaiser-on-mental-health-services/\" target=\"_blank\">two parts\u003c/a> about mental health services at Northern California Kaiser.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2013 a woman named “Nina” had a terrible falling out with her father. Soon after, she found out he had incurable cancer and was going to die. In the ensuing weeks, she tried to patch things up, but with the pressures inherent in the last months of a dying man, was unable to attain any form of closure. Some six months after their fight, he was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"People are suffering, and I fear some of my patients will commit suicide for lack of ongoing treatment.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Nina,\" who did not want us to use her real name for reasons of privacy, had been prone to depression. Zoloft had helped, but the now irreparable family rift left her severely depressed, with occasional thoughts of suicide. \"I was in a state of constant emotional pain and confusion,\" she says. “It was affecting all aspects of my life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She went for an intake appointment at the psychiatric department at Kaiser Permanente’s Oakland Medical Center, with the expectation she'd be able to see a therapist for individual appointments during this severe emotional crisis. She requested those sessions, but the intake therapist told her Kaiser only offered group therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said I'm not comfortable talking about my situation with a bunch of strangers,” Nina says. “She very kindly tried to make me aware of the value of group therapy. But I knew in my heart it wasn’t where I wanted to be.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina left even more dispirited. Over the next year, she white-knuckled her depression on her own, before having the epiphany that maybe her medication needed adjustment. She went to see a Kaiser psychiatrist and mentioned she’d been told there was no individual therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The psychiatrist seemed startled. She told Nina individual therapy was offered. “They probably just didn’t have the space,” the psychiatrist said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina was shocked. “I could not believe that a professional therapist would lie to an obviously depressed patient who was sincerely seeking help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She finally did get to see a Kaiser therapist, whom she describes as “fantastic,” but who told her she could only book Nina maybe once every four weeks. At that point, Nina's expectations had been lowered to the point she was grateful to get any therapy at all. She also availed herself of a free Kaiser yoga class, which she considers to have been useful in her recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her therapist, she says, is really helping her with the depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Nina's contact with Kaiser’s psychiatric department left her unnerved. “I started thinking maybe it’s my problem,” she says about her rejection of group therapy. \"It just added to my anxiety. But to share with other people what I was going through was just too much for me at that time. How depressed did this therapist need me to be in order to make room in the schedule for individual therapy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kaiser Under Fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Kaiser was\u003ca href=\"http://www.dmhc.ca.gov/Portals/0/AboutDMHC/PressReleases/2013/prkmhs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> fined $4 million\u003c/a> by the California Department of Managed Health Care for not accurately tracking patient waiting times for initial mental health appointments. And now the health plan is in the middle of another controversy over its mental health care: Some of its therapists and patients say there is a dangerous lack of access to individual therapy appointments and an over-reliance on group therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser maintains that hiring in its psychiatric departments is up, and that patients do not have problems getting appropriate care. It points to its high rating in behavioral and mental health on the \u003ca href=\"http://reportcard.opa.ca.gov/rc2014/hmotopic.aspx?Category=HMOHEDIS&Topic=MentalHealthCare\" target=\"_blank\">2014 California Office of the Patient Advocate report card\u003c/a>. In addition, it has asserted that much of the controversy has been fueled by the union representing mental health clinicians, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), which has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2012/1/24/three-unions-announce-one-day-strike-at-kaiser-over-labor-negotiations\" target=\"_blank\">embroiled in contract negotiations\u003c/a> with Kaiser since 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reporting this story I talked to some two dozen current and former Kaiser clinicians and mental health patients as well as outside therapists. The vast majority express similar complaints: While health plans are required to provide medically necessary appointments within 10 business days, Kaiser patients have to wait long periods, sometimes months, between individual therapy appointments. These critics say Kaiser is referring patients to group therapy even in cases where ongoing individual sessions are clinically necessary. The reason, the union and clinicians say, is a serious staff shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Therapists, Patients Speak Out\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/07/01/sonoma-co-supervisor-presses-kaiser-on-mental-health-services/\" target=\"_blank\">we've reported\u003c/a>, the issue came to a head this year when a \u003ca href=\"http://90daystochange.com/\" target=\"_blank\">behind-the-scenes blog \u003c/a>by Andy Weisskoff, a now-former therapist at the health plan’s Santa Rosa Medical Center, detailed long waiting times for therapy appointments and the deleterious effects on both patients and therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I see someone today with suicidal thoughts ... I am often uncertain how well they’ll fare in the intervening weeks,” he \u003ca href=\"http://90daystochange.com/2014/03/04/even-if-youre-thinking-of-killing-yourself/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote\u003c/a>. “Did I miss something in our hour long interview?… Maybe I should have sent them to our intensive outpatient group instead of a skills group designed for people who are higher functioning. And then I wait, at least a month, to see if my intuition, one way or another, was correct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Kaiser therapist from a Northern California facility described similar concerns. She wants to remain anonymous out of fear for her job. She is unnerved by the common practice of steering patients into groups instead of individual therapy sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel unethical when I go home at night, and feel really guilty,” she said. \"People are suffering, and I fear some of my patients will commit suicide for lack of ongoing treatment, but I’m powerless to treat them because I don’t have return visits available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another therapist who worked at a South Bay Kaiser says she quit her position earlier this year because she considered the treatment of patients there \"unethical.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"We believe these descriptions are not reflective of the millions of mental health visits we provide each year in Northern California.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Patients that need individual therapy are not getting it,” she said. “We had to tell patients we offer group therapy. ... The patients that are the most severely mentally ill are the ones that can’t speak up for themselves, and the ones who get lost in the system. With the Affordable Care Act, we’re seeing more and more of those patients.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of Kaiser patients also reported similar dissatisfaction with the unavailability of individual sessions. Loran Watkins’ story was typical of the complaints many patients described to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watkins, 53, said that in 2010 her husband was battling cancer and \"desperately needed therapy to get through this. They said he could go to a group. There was no way in God's green earth he would have gone to a group. He was already a social introvert, was on six different kinds of pain medications so his ability to focus was very limited.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \"pushing and pushing and pushing,\" Watkins says, her husband was finally given the okay to see a therapist, but only once a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here you have a man actively battling cancer, was relapsing,\" she said. \"After the seventh or eighth appointment, the therapist said he was retiring, and that there were no more appointments available.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watkins added that when her own longtime therapist at Kaiser's Walnut Creek medical center retired, she told Watkins there was no replacement available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I asked her for a referral. She said there's no one to refer you to. The only thing I can do is they will place me in a group type setting; there's no individual therapy appointments anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser responded to an email outlining these accounts and disputed the allegations that individual therapy is not available:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We apologize if there are members who may have received incorrect information about the availability of services. All of our medical centers provide individual therapy as part of the wide range of mental health treatments available to Kaiser Permanente patients.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We encourage our members and staff to share their concerns, and we investigate thoroughly and work to resolve any issues. We take the examples in your email very seriously. Out of respect for patient privacy, we cannot respond in the media about individual cases. Each patient’s concern is important to us and we will investigate with the information we have. We believe these descriptions are not reflective of the millions of mental health visits we provide each year in Northern California, but we recognize that we have opportunities to make our program even better and are committed to doing so.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Group Therapy vs. Individual Therapy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Mason Turner is Kaiser’s director of patient operations for regional mental health services in Northern California. He takes umbrage at the notion that individual therapy is the “gold standard,” as he puts it, and that group therapy is somehow inferior. “This is a disservice to the hundreds of thousands of Kaiser Permanente members -- and millions throughout the country -- who have benefited from this type of proven, effective treatment and to the mental health professionals, including our Kaiser Permanente therapists, who provide it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no evidence that individual psychotherapy is superior to group therapy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Dr. John Norcross, a psychology professor at the University of Scranton, if that was true. Norcross’ research is on treatment adaptations -- \"how to tailor therapy for individual patients,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norcross is a “big supporter” of group therapy, but only when indicated. And group treatment is contraindicated, he said, if the patient has a strong preference for individual therapy. That can make a difference in both retention of the patient and effectiveness of the treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are dozens of studies that show we should always begin with patients’ preferences if ethically or clinically possible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I recounted to him the experience of Nina, the woman who had expressed a preference for individual therapy at Kaiser Oakland and was erroneously told it wasn’t offered. Norcross said in her case a group would not be effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this woman wants 50 minutes to express and resolve longstanding conflicts, you’re not going to get that kind of opportunity in a therapy group of 6-12 people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Weisskoff, the former Kaiser therapist who blogged about his experience at Kaiser Santa Rosa, wrote that only a quarter of those who were referred to groups attended one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The assertion that groups are better than individual therapy is a little bit beside the point if they don’t go to the groups in the first place,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some patients who I spoke with amplified his concern. For example, a 60-year-old woman who uses Kaiser’s Roseville facility and suffers from panic disorder said the last time she had an appointment, the therapist told her she could be seen maybe once every three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead she was sent to a group, where she says the discussions triggered her anxiety attacks. She estimated the number of patients in another group at about two dozen -- “like cattle in there, how can anyone’s needs be met?” she said. So she quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On disability because of her anxiety, unable to tolerate medication, and with the cost of an outside therapist out of reach, she sees no available options. “There’s nowhere for me to go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corlene Van Sluizer described the same lack of options for her sister, 71. Her sister was ordered into an inpatient facility this year after telling her Kaiser Santa Rosa psychiatrist of plans to commit suicide, Van Sluizer says. Even with a diagnosis of major depression, after being released she was told she’d have to pay for any individual therapy on her own. Instead, she was sent to a group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It lasted 6 sessions. She got no benefit from it,” Van Sluizer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many non-Kaiser therapists sent me emails asserting some of their patients have been forced to pay out-of-pocket because they cannot get individual therapy at Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A typical response came from Karen Taylor, a therapist in Campbell: “(I) see a number of Kaiser clients. (Kaiser) tells them to go to a group or will only see them every six weeks for private therapy. Neither of these options have been appropriate or effective for my clients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A therapist who wanted to remain anonymous said that a patient was referred to her by Kaiser staff following his suicide attempt and hospitalization. “I considered him high risk for a second suicide. He attempted again soon after our intake. None of these incidents convinced Kaiser to provide individual therapy to him. … Kaiser continued to refer him to groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Kaiser said therapists have a responsibility to inform more senior staff of need for specific services:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The well-being of our patients is our primary concern. We would expect any therapist with concerns about a patient's urgent needs to immediately respond and escalate appropriately, and we support them in doing so.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kaiser Disputes Shortage of Staff\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser's Dr. Turner says any notion that a staff shortage is driving the choice of treatment options is untrue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have nearly 14 percent more therapists in Northern California than three years ago, and we are continuing to recruit and hire,” he told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Kaiser mental health staff say any new hiring hasn’t kept up with the influx of patients due to Obamacare. But Turner disputes that. “Staffing increases (have) increased significantly ahead of membership growth,” he said. “Seventy percent of our therapy is individual psychotherapy.\" While that figure includes the intake sessions for new patients, Turner said the “bulk” of the 70 percent figure is for return visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say that 4-6 weeks is the time between visits is not accurate,” Turner said. “We encourage therapists to look at all the different contact modalities: telephone appointments, email visits, and individual visits, to understand how best to reach out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called Kaiser’s system of care “multi-modal, highly integrated,” and listed medication management, crisis intervention, “evidence-based group programs,” and intensive outpatient and inpatient services among its services for mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner says patients can get individual therapy at more frequent intervals if they, in consultation with their therapist, consider that is the best course of treatment. He also put the responsibility for arranging appropriate care on therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would expect our therapists, if they thought (a patient) needed to be seen sooner, would elect to discuss it with their manager and look for alternative times. Or have a discussion with their colleagues how they’ve managed patients like that before. It’s really up to the patient and therapist to make sure that occurs. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(But) we have ways of accommodating this when it comes up.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bringing Concerns to Management\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Oakland psychologist Melinda Ginne says she tried that, to no avail. She and other Kaiser clinicians eventually went to California's Department of Managed Health Care with their complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the past two-and-a-half years I have (been) writing my management about … the dangerously long wait times for a return appointment,” she told me. “The response was literally nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginne works with seniors and patients who have serious physical ailments like cancer. She sent me the email she wrote to Kaiser managers last September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My patients have been waiting 3 months for a routine follow-up appointment,” she wrote. “This has been a dire situation with often adverse consequences for the patients. But now they must wait 5 months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Believe me,” she continued. “I can’t tell a patient with 3-6 months to live that I’ll see them in 5 months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One former Kaiser therapist said she brought her concerns about patients not getting enough individual therapy to management “multiple times throughout the five years I was there, and they just don’t want to hear it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it was possible for a therapist to get approval to see a client individually, but only by “really insist(ing). And even if they feel the patient needs it, they don’t have room on their schedule because of the way Kaiser books them back to back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kaiser’s Regulator Weighs In\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marta Green, the California Department of Managed Health Care’s (DMHC) deputy director of communications and planning, said whether Kaiser is in violation of regulations would depend on whether it displayed a pattern of steering patients to groups instead of medically necessary individual sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the medically necessary care to treat an enrollee's condition is an individual therapy session, then the plan must make that session available within a clinically appropriate timeframe and comply with the regulatory timeframes\" of 10 business days,” she wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, if a physician or triage professional, using professionally recognized standards of practice, determines that a longer waiting time will not have a detrimental impact on a patient, that period between appointments may legally be extended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green said if Kaiser can't provide individual therapy to a patient that needs it, then Kaiser would be obligated to partially pay for outside therapy. Any Kaiser enrollees who think this situation may apply to them should file a claim with Kaiser at the same time they \u003ca href=\"http://www.dmhc.ca.gov/FileaComplaint/ConsumerIndependentMedicalReviewComplaint.aspx#.U8gtb41dWSM\" target=\"_blank\">ask the DHMC for a free independent medical review\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Against this backdrop of reports of patient and therapist dissatisfaction, Kaiser maintains that staffing complaints are driven by its four-year-plus contract negotiation with the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents many of the therapists. In its statement to KQED, Kaiser said the union \"has not been cooperative in finding solutions that will enable us to meet our members' needs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, Kaiser has \"entered into an agreement with Value Options,\" a network of mental health providers, to \"make sure that our members have timely access to therapists when we need flexibility in staffing.\" But NUHW \"has so far not agreed to this solution -- despite the union making it clear that its members would not be able to take on the extra demand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Seavey of the NUHW responds that clinicians have requested to bargain with Kaiser “about the impact of these changes -- for example, how these changes in the acuity levels of their patients will affect clinicians' schedules, caseloads, etc and whether Kaiser should alter the productivity quotas under which clinicians currently operate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seavey says Kaiser's clinicians have tried to get Kaiser to address staffing shortages for years. “Kaiser has simply turned a blind eye to them,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A follow-up DMHC report to the one that resulted in last year’s $4 million fine is due in the fall. The DMHC’s Marta Green said it will take into account any complaints about long waits for follow-up appointments to individual therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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