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"content": "\u003cp>It should be said that California’s resistance began before there was a resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/10/gov-browns-190-billion-state-budget/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unveiled his last budget Wednesday\u003c/a>, it will bookended eight years of a progressive march to reduce greenhouse gases, expand health care, grant more rights to undocumented immigrants and raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Along the way, blue state voters have assented by passing temporary taxes on the rich—not once, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-election-day-2016-proposition-55-income-tax-1478277671-htmlstory.html\">twice\u003c/a>. The top marginal income tax rate is now 13.3 percent, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/jul/11/travis-allen/mostly-true-californias-taxes-among-highest-nation/\">highest\u003c/a> state income tax rate in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, policies that are now labeled acts of resistance to President Donald Trump were alive and ascendant in California long before he won the White House. But the contrasts have become much more stark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of cutting taxes, the Democratic governor and his party’s legislative leaders have passed a gas tax to help pay for aging infrastructure. Instead of trying to shift government out of the healthcare marketplace, California is looking for a way to fund single-payer health care, including coverage for undocumented immigrants. Instead of criminalizing pot, the state is looking forward to collecting taxes on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/pot-legal-california-will-get-thought-voted/\">marijuana\u003c/a> sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"N5345J6Czkq4yxEQjYyk1yZAxppZyYHc\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months between now and the June deadline for a final budget, the governor and the Legislature will hammer out details. The focus this year: what to do with an expected surplus of $6.1 billion. Republicans say return it to California’s 40 million residents as a nice tax refund. The governor's priority is to fill up the state’s rainy day fund. Democratic legislators mostly want to spend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a very different approach,” said Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, who chairs the Assembly Budget Committee. “Our focus, the people who we think need tax relief, are the working Californians who are making less than $25,000. That’s where we want to spend our money, making sure they have money to pay rent, to pay for food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than giving out “huge corporate tax breaks and a huge tax break for the wealthiest in this country,” Ting has a long list of how he would like to spend that extra money, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Increase the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit, which puts money into the hands of the working poor\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Expand Medi-Cal health care for poorer Californians to cover all remaining uninsured residents, mostly undocumented immigrants\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Expand early education for 4-year-olds through preschool and transitional kindergarten programs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Increase college aid\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Expand mental and social services to reduce the number of criminals who go on to re-offend\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As supportive as Brown might be of these Democratic aspirations, his administration is urging legislative leaders to proceed with caution. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s tax structure is more vulnerable than ever to the stock market gains and losses of its wealthiest citizens, and the governor said California must prepare for the next economic downturn because a mild recession could wipe away at least $20 billion a year in revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-800x2629.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"2629\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11641531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-800x2629.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-160x526.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-1020x3352.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-1180x3877.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-960x3155.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-240x789.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-375x1232.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-520x1709.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Brown also warns of uncertainty from Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are certain policies that are radical departures from the norm, and California will fight those, whether it’s immigration or offshore drilling,” Brown said. “We don’t know what will happen. I wouldn’t want to portray a California-Washington battle, although there are some key differences and we’ll espouse our values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"QCFefAktUaMCZgjPoS28R9iZWtXzSfDL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Brown was elected to a second stint as governor in November 2010, the state has climbed out of the recession and enjoyed economic prosperity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unemployment rate, which topped 12 percent, now stands at \u003ca href=\"http://www.edd.ca.gov/About_EDD/pdf/urate201712.pdf\">4.6 percent\u003c/a>. Since his return, California has added \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/Top-Statistics.html\">2.4 million\u003c/a> jobs and hourly wages are up \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/Top-Statistics.html\">$4.76 an hour\u003c/a>. The state, which carried a $25 billion deficit in his first year back, has enjoyed billion-dollar surpluses in recent years and the state now has a rainy day fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2018-19/#/Home\">$190 billion\u003c/a> budget is dominated by education (29 percent) and health care (32 percent) \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-state-budget-best-visualization-tool/\">spending\u003c/a>. Health care spending has been growing particularly fast since the state embraced the Affordable Care Act, best known as Obamacare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The act not only grew the marketplace for private health plans but allowed states to expand their Medicaid health insurance programs for the poor. Because California is among 30 states that expanded Medicaid, the federal government is paying at least 90 percent of the cost for newly eligible enrollees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has allowed California to draw billions in extra funding from the federal government to bolster Medi-Cal, the state’s version of the national Medicaid program. As a result, the number of people without health coverage in the state has dropped to a historic low: from \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/~/media/MEDIA%20LIBRARY%20Files/PDF/PDF%20C/PDF%20CaliforniaUninsuredDec2016.pdf\">17.6 percent in the 1980s\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/insur201611.pdf\">7.6 percent in 2016\u003c/a>. Today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/publications/2013/05/medical-facts-figures\">one in three\u003c/a> Californians are covered by Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public schools too have greatly benefited since the recession, with much of the extra spending on schools going to improve teachers’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed-data.org/\">salaries\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, if the federal government doesn’t \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/tens-thousands-california-kids-lose-health-care/\">reauthorize\u003c/a> the Children’s Health Insurance Program for 1.3 million children, that could add more than $850 million in costs to the state over two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"6V0gO63cMEeSjKQhw0mxdejihSZ86928\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worse, if Republicans in Washington slash Medicaid funding in 2018, the state could lose between $25 billion and $50 billion, said Chris Hoene, executive director of the California Budget & Policy Center, a progressive think tank in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is California could not afford the scale of the cuts the GOP has been proposing,” Hoene said. “That’s going to put state leaders in a position of deciding who gets state services and how do they fund that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other factors are straining the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, pension costs for public workers continue to be one of the fastest-growing liabilities—driven by lower investment rate assumptions, higher health care costs and longer life spans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters, too, could turn on Brown and lawmakers. Early \u003ca href=\"https://www.igs.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/2017-21_gas_tax_repeal.pdf\">polling\u003c/a> suggests Republicans have a decent shot at repealing a gas tax hike that went into effect late last year. Brown said at a press conference Wednesday that he believes a repeal initiative could be defeated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature’s nonpartisan budget analyst is urging lawmakers not to commit to too many new spending programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it crafts the 2018-19 budget and future budgets, we encourage the Legislature to consider all of the uncertainty faced by the budget in future years and continue its recent practice of building its reserve levels,” the analyst \u003ca href=\"http://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3718/fiscal-outlook-111517.pdf\">wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flipside, Republicans are calling for a tax refund, if not an outright repeal of state income taxes. They argue that California’s high taxes chase residents out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This surplus is a direct result of Capitol Democrats overtaxing hard-working Californians,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmHarper/status/948969552100057088\">said\u003c/a> Assemblyman Matthew Harper, R-Huntington Beach. “Rather than expanding an ever-growing list of government programs, our leaders should figure out a way to return that money to the people who earned it in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/f2acd022-56d6-48db-bc60-e21c12a1d261?src=embed\" title=\"California Tax Increases\" width=\"800\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Vince Fong, R-Bakersfield, said he plans to introduce tax cuts aimed at helping families and small businesses stay in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we see all too often now, we are losing families and small businesses to neighboring states that have tax burdens much lower than California’s high-priced tax code,” Fong \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/vfong/status/948994635845611525\">said\u003c/a> on Twitter. “We have an opportunity to change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown dismissed the refund idea, saying it would only prompt service cuts to public schools and universities later. “If you want to budget responsibly, you need big surpluses in years that are good,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there’s a growing sentiment that California may have to respond to recent changes in the federal tax plan, specifically to a $10,000 cap on state and local deductions that will hit millions of households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"aePxEpQv8dWe5MbzcOOVpb8RJVDTcrwL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the state \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/Letter-to-conferees-121117.pdf?x74105\">Finance Department\u003c/a>, the average deduction for state and local income taxes alone is nearly $16,000 per return, while state and local property taxes average less than $6,000 per return. Because a portion of those taxes will no longer be deductible, it acts as double taxation for California taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, who is running for U.S. Senate, introduced legislation Thursday to shield Californians from bearing the costs of the tax overhaul. The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB227\">bill\u003c/a>, dubbed Protect California Taxpayers Act, would allow taxpayers to make charitable deductions to the state and receive a dollar-for-dollar tax credit on the full amount of their contribution. By having residents donate to the state government as a charitable contribution, the contribution remains deductible on federal taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Republican tax plan gives corporations and hedge-fund managers a trillion-dollar tax cut and expects California taxpayers to foot the bill,” de León said in announcing his legislation. “We won’t allow California residents to be the casualty of this disastrous tax scheme.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown was particularly vocal against the GOP tax proposal, calling it a “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/trump_california/jerry-brown-urges-no-vote-tax-monstrosity/\">tax monstrosity\u003c/a>,” but the governor expressed reservations about whether the state could sidestep federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks interesting,” Brown said. “But two questions: Can it work? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It should be said that California’s resistance began before there was a resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/10/gov-browns-190-billion-state-budget/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unveiled his last budget Wednesday\u003c/a>, it will bookended eight years of a progressive march to reduce greenhouse gases, expand health care, grant more rights to undocumented immigrants and raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Along the way, blue state voters have assented by passing temporary taxes on the rich—not once, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-election-day-2016-proposition-55-income-tax-1478277671-htmlstory.html\">twice\u003c/a>. The top marginal income tax rate is now 13.3 percent, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/jul/11/travis-allen/mostly-true-californias-taxes-among-highest-nation/\">highest\u003c/a> state income tax rate in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, policies that are now labeled acts of resistance to President Donald Trump were alive and ascendant in California long before he won the White House. But the contrasts have become much more stark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of cutting taxes, the Democratic governor and his party’s legislative leaders have passed a gas tax to help pay for aging infrastructure. Instead of trying to shift government out of the healthcare marketplace, California is looking for a way to fund single-payer health care, including coverage for undocumented immigrants. Instead of criminalizing pot, the state is looking forward to collecting taxes on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/pot-legal-california-will-get-thought-voted/\">marijuana\u003c/a> sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months between now and the June deadline for a final budget, the governor and the Legislature will hammer out details. The focus this year: what to do with an expected surplus of $6.1 billion. Republicans say return it to California’s 40 million residents as a nice tax refund. The governor's priority is to fill up the state’s rainy day fund. Democratic legislators mostly want to spend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a very different approach,” said Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, who chairs the Assembly Budget Committee. “Our focus, the people who we think need tax relief, are the working Californians who are making less than $25,000. That’s where we want to spend our money, making sure they have money to pay rent, to pay for food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than giving out “huge corporate tax breaks and a huge tax break for the wealthiest in this country,” Ting has a long list of how he would like to spend that extra money, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Increase the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit, which puts money into the hands of the working poor\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Expand Medi-Cal health care for poorer Californians to cover all remaining uninsured residents, mostly undocumented immigrants\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Expand early education for 4-year-olds through preschool and transitional kindergarten programs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Increase college aid\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Expand mental and social services to reduce the number of criminals who go on to re-offend\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As supportive as Brown might be of these Democratic aspirations, his administration is urging legislative leaders to proceed with caution. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s tax structure is more vulnerable than ever to the stock market gains and losses of its wealthiest citizens, and the governor said California must prepare for the next economic downturn because a mild recession could wipe away at least $20 billion a year in revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-800x2629.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"2629\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11641531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-800x2629.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-160x526.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-1020x3352.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-1180x3877.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-960x3155.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-240x789.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-375x1232.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BudgetBreakdown-520x1709.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Brown also warns of uncertainty from Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are certain policies that are radical departures from the norm, and California will fight those, whether it’s immigration or offshore drilling,” Brown said. “We don’t know what will happen. I wouldn’t want to portray a California-Washington battle, although there are some key differences and we’ll espouse our values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Brown was elected to a second stint as governor in November 2010, the state has climbed out of the recession and enjoyed economic prosperity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unemployment rate, which topped 12 percent, now stands at \u003ca href=\"http://www.edd.ca.gov/About_EDD/pdf/urate201712.pdf\">4.6 percent\u003c/a>. Since his return, California has added \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/Top-Statistics.html\">2.4 million\u003c/a> jobs and hourly wages are up \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/Top-Statistics.html\">$4.76 an hour\u003c/a>. The state, which carried a $25 billion deficit in his first year back, has enjoyed billion-dollar surpluses in recent years and the state now has a rainy day fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2018-19/#/Home\">$190 billion\u003c/a> budget is dominated by education (29 percent) and health care (32 percent) \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-state-budget-best-visualization-tool/\">spending\u003c/a>. Health care spending has been growing particularly fast since the state embraced the Affordable Care Act, best known as Obamacare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The act not only grew the marketplace for private health plans but allowed states to expand their Medicaid health insurance programs for the poor. Because California is among 30 states that expanded Medicaid, the federal government is paying at least 90 percent of the cost for newly eligible enrollees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has allowed California to draw billions in extra funding from the federal government to bolster Medi-Cal, the state’s version of the national Medicaid program. As a result, the number of people without health coverage in the state has dropped to a historic low: from \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/~/media/MEDIA%20LIBRARY%20Files/PDF/PDF%20C/PDF%20CaliforniaUninsuredDec2016.pdf\">17.6 percent in the 1980s\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/insur201611.pdf\">7.6 percent in 2016\u003c/a>. Today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/publications/2013/05/medical-facts-figures\">one in three\u003c/a> Californians are covered by Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public schools too have greatly benefited since the recession, with much of the extra spending on schools going to improve teachers’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed-data.org/\">salaries\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, if the federal government doesn’t \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/tens-thousands-california-kids-lose-health-care/\">reauthorize\u003c/a> the Children’s Health Insurance Program for 1.3 million children, that could add more than $850 million in costs to the state over two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worse, if Republicans in Washington slash Medicaid funding in 2018, the state could lose between $25 billion and $50 billion, said Chris Hoene, executive director of the California Budget & Policy Center, a progressive think tank in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is California could not afford the scale of the cuts the GOP has been proposing,” Hoene said. “That’s going to put state leaders in a position of deciding who gets state services and how do they fund that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other factors are straining the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, pension costs for public workers continue to be one of the fastest-growing liabilities—driven by lower investment rate assumptions, higher health care costs and longer life spans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters, too, could turn on Brown and lawmakers. Early \u003ca href=\"https://www.igs.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/2017-21_gas_tax_repeal.pdf\">polling\u003c/a> suggests Republicans have a decent shot at repealing a gas tax hike that went into effect late last year. Brown said at a press conference Wednesday that he believes a repeal initiative could be defeated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature’s nonpartisan budget analyst is urging lawmakers not to commit to too many new spending programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it crafts the 2018-19 budget and future budgets, we encourage the Legislature to consider all of the uncertainty faced by the budget in future years and continue its recent practice of building its reserve levels,” the analyst \u003ca href=\"http://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3718/fiscal-outlook-111517.pdf\">wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flipside, Republicans are calling for a tax refund, if not an outright repeal of state income taxes. They argue that California’s high taxes chase residents out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This surplus is a direct result of Capitol Democrats overtaxing hard-working Californians,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmHarper/status/948969552100057088\">said\u003c/a> Assemblyman Matthew Harper, R-Huntington Beach. “Rather than expanding an ever-growing list of government programs, our leaders should figure out a way to return that money to the people who earned it in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/f2acd022-56d6-48db-bc60-e21c12a1d261?src=embed\" title=\"California Tax Increases\" width=\"800\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Vince Fong, R-Bakersfield, said he plans to introduce tax cuts aimed at helping families and small businesses stay in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we see all too often now, we are losing families and small businesses to neighboring states that have tax burdens much lower than California’s high-priced tax code,” Fong \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/vfong/status/948994635845611525\">said\u003c/a> on Twitter. “We have an opportunity to change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown dismissed the refund idea, saying it would only prompt service cuts to public schools and universities later. “If you want to budget responsibly, you need big surpluses in years that are good,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there’s a growing sentiment that California may have to respond to recent changes in the federal tax plan, specifically to a $10,000 cap on state and local deductions that will hit millions of households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the state \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/Letter-to-conferees-121117.pdf?x74105\">Finance Department\u003c/a>, the average deduction for state and local income taxes alone is nearly $16,000 per return, while state and local property taxes average less than $6,000 per return. Because a portion of those taxes will no longer be deductible, it acts as double taxation for California taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, who is running for U.S. Senate, introduced legislation Thursday to shield Californians from bearing the costs of the tax overhaul. The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB227\">bill\u003c/a>, dubbed Protect California Taxpayers Act, would allow taxpayers to make charitable deductions to the state and receive a dollar-for-dollar tax credit on the full amount of their contribution. By having residents donate to the state government as a charitable contribution, the contribution remains deductible on federal taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Republican tax plan gives corporations and hedge-fund managers a trillion-dollar tax cut and expects California taxpayers to foot the bill,” de León said in announcing his legislation. “We won’t allow California residents to be the casualty of this disastrous tax scheme.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown was particularly vocal against the GOP tax proposal, calling it a “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/trump_california/jerry-brown-urges-no-vote-tax-monstrosity/\">tax monstrosity\u003c/a>,” but the governor expressed reservations about whether the state could sidestep federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks interesting,” Brown said. “But two questions: Can it work? 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"content": "\u003cp>The Senate vote on the health care bill has been pushed back, but it still has a lot of people in the nursing home industry worried. About two-thirds of nursing home residents are paid for by Medicaid. And the Congressional Budget Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/115th-congress-2017-2018/costestimate/52849-hr1628senate.pdf\">found\u003c/a> that the Senate health care bill would cut Medicaid by more than $770 billion over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could mean trouble for people like 88-year-old Betty Redlin. She's lived at the \u003ca href=\"http://victoriacarecenter.com/\">Victoria Care Center\u003c/a> in Ventura, Calif. for about 2 1/2 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She explains that she fell and broke her hip and never regained her ability to walk. \"I was living with my granddaughter,\" she says, \"and my doctor won't [allow] going back to her place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betty had a career as a bookkeeper. She also raised three children. Now she's spent everything she had. There's no way she could afford the roughly $80,000 a year this nursing home costs. (That fee is pretty standard for nursing homes.) So it's Medicaid that enables her to stay here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing I can do about it,\" she says. \"It's gotta be [Medicaid] or [I'm] out on the street. 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Whatever Congress does, he doesn't think that Victoria Care Center would close down, though there might have to be cuts in staff and in the costs of food and supplies. Also, Gardner says that Victoria Care Center is part of a chain of 200 facilities, which could cushion the blow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone is as optimistic as he is. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ahcancal.org/Pages/Default.aspx\">American Health Care Association\u003c/a> (AHCA), a national trade group for nursing homes, the current Senate bill's cuts to Medicaid could mean that a typical nursing home would eventually run deficits of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. 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That's just one provision that could hit older Americans hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small group of Republican senators has written the bill in secret in recent weeks, with many Americans and even some fellow Republicans eagerly awaiting details about what's in the bill. After the bill was released on Thursday, protesters gathered outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/877915310526939136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video from NBC\u003c/a> showed police removing some of those protesters from the hallway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/877915310526939136\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Big Changes to Medicaid\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some of the biggest changes this bill makes are to Medicaid, the entitlement program that provides health care to low-income Americans. In that sense, it looks like the House bill, which the CBO said would cut Medicaid by $834 billion over a decade (relative to current law), with a loss of 14 million beneficiaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both bills roll back a Medicaid expansion undertaken under the Affordable Care Act. That law extended the program to some low-income Americans above the poverty level. The Senate proposal would roll back that expansion, though it would do so more slowly than the House bill proposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with the House, the Senate also proposes giving states either a per capita cap on Medicaid spending or a block grant of funds. That's a fundamental change; currently the program is \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletters/headlines-in-health-policy/2017/jan/january-23-2017/medicaid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open-ended\u003c/a>,\" meaning funding increases as need increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's another change on top of that. Those caps would vary based on the rate of inflation, and the inflation rate the Senate would attach to those caps is one that is lower than the inflation rate the House attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might sound like a minor wonky change, but it's not, says one former Medicaid administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's a big deal. It's a big shift,\" said John Corlett, president of the Center for Community Solutions who also served as a director of Ohio's Medicaid program. \"It means billions of dollars less in federal aid to states for their Medicaid programs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tax Cuts for Richer Americans\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Senate bill is also much like the House bill in that it would repeal most of the taxes associated with Obamacare. 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"content": "\u003cp>One of the biggest budget fights unfolding behind closed doors in Sacramento this week is over how to spend the $1.2 billion raised by the state’s new tobacco tax, with dentists, doctors, gynecologists, and podiatrists all vying for a cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The biggest ask comes from the California Medical Association, which wants at least half of the money, $610 million a year, to increase payments to doctors who treat low-income patients on Medi-Cal. The group has long argued that low reimbursement rates force doctors to limit the number of Medi-Cal patients they can see, making it harder for some patients to find care. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’ve let this program atrophy for so long, you have to put a substantial amount toward it to make a difference in access to care,” says Dustin Corcoran, CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cmanet.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Medical Association\u003c/a>. “It’s been a systemic problem for years, and Prop 56 was an important investment in that.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2016/general/en/pdf/text-proposed-laws.pdf#prop56\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ballot initiative\u003c/a> that raised the tobacco tax earmarked the revenue to \"augment spending on health care for low–income Californians,” in part, by \"providing improved payments for all healthcare.\" That fuels the medical association's argument that increasing Medi-Cal payments to doctors should be the first priority. Other health advocates say California should also bring back services Medi-Cal used to cover before the recession (hearing tests, vision care, podiatry exams); and, allow undocumented immigrant young adults to receive Medi-Cal coverage until age 26. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the loudest fight over the money has revolved around the payments for doctors. The California Medical Association has been highly critical of Gov. Jerry Brown, who has routinely refused to increase doctors’ payments in years past, and whose draft budget again snubbed doctors, allocating the entirety of the tobacco tax proceeds to cover the general costs of the Medi-Cal program in the next fiscal year, namely, new patients coming on to the Medi-Cal rolls. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The thinking behind this is simple, says H.D. Palmer, the governor’s spokesman on finance and the budget. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eighty percent of Medi-Cal patients are covered by managed care plans, Palmer explains. These insurance companies, contracted by the state to run the Medi-Cal program, are the ones who negotiate payment rates with doctors, not the governor. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Four out of every five participants in the Medi-Cal program are in managed care,” Palmer says repeatedly. “Rates are specifically negotiated between the plans and their network of providers. That’s not a negotiation that the state is in the middle of.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state can only raise reimbursement rates for doctors with whom it contracts directly in “fee-for-service” arrangements. Those doctors serve just one out of five Medi-Cal patients. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Managed care plans may look to the state rates when setting payment rates for doctors in their own networks. But insurance experts say that only happens to a minor extent. Plans rely more on a range of actuarial risk data to set rates, and increasingly, plans are paying doctors a fixed, “capitated” payment to manage each patient’s overall health for the year, rather than paying for individual appointments or medical procedures.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fight with Governor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nonetheless, both the state Senate and Assembly have rejected the governor’s spending plan for the tobacco tax. Instead, each house has proposed setting aside hundreds of millions of dollars to fund provider rate increases that would directly benefit doctors who serve the 20 percent of Medi-Cal patients not covered by managed-care.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That’s still three million people,” says Anthony Wright, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.health-access.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health Access\u003c/a>, a patient advocacy group. “There is a rationale to do this.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wright points to dental care and family planning services as two specialties that mainly operate outside managed care plans, and have a “demonstrated need” for improved access.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2013-125.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state audit\u003c/a> found 16 counties in California had no dentists accepting new Medi-Cal patients, while Planned Parenthood recently announced it will close three of its reproductive health clinics in Northern California, and Women’s Health Specialists \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2017/05/19/womens-health-clinics-in-california-struggle-in-a-shifting-healthcare-landscape/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">closed another two\u003c/a>. Both clinic operators cited low Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for family planning services as the main reason for the closures.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than half of Planned Parenthood’s patients are covered by fee-for-service contracts with the state, and the Medi-Cal managed care contracts it does have, covering 31 percent of patients, specifically set fees to match the state rate, says Beth Parker, chief legal counsel for Planned Parenthood. A fee bump could help prevent more clinic closures. 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But the number of children who got dental care only went up by 38 percent, according to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://tely2.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=DgRDGvMxpSQbiM7sxd2OnXy3MuxXAq4cOeo1xBbuoleVreZvnazUCA..&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.nashp.org%2fsites%2fdefault%2ffiles%2fCHCF_dental_rates.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a study\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by the National Academy for State Health Policy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The federal government tried it, too: The Affordable Care Act mandated an increase in Medicaid payments to primary care doctors for two years. 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Doctors would get extra money if 5 percent of their patients were on Medi-Cal; they'd get more if the proportion were 10 percent, and more at 15 percent, and so on up to 30 percent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All doctors would be eligible for these lump sums, whether they’re contracted by the state or by managed care plans.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Many physicians have to severely limit their patient population on Medi-Cal because they lose money on each patient,” says Dustin Corcoran, the California Medical Association’s CEO. “If we can improve that and incentivize physicians to enter the space, we think that would do a lot to improve access.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But patient advocate Anthony Wright says this plan amounts to giving doctors a “bonus” for work they’ve already done, and in some cases, arguably, would have done anyway.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, Wright’s group has convinced the Senate to advocate for rate increases based on data, carefully evaluating geographic regions and medical specialties for shortages, then directing money where the need is most acute. 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That’s not a negotiation that the state is in the middle of.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state can only raise reimbursement rates for doctors with whom it contracts directly in “fee-for-service” arrangements. Those doctors serve just one out of five Medi-Cal patients. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Managed care plans may look to the state rates when setting payment rates for doctors in their own networks. But insurance experts say that only happens to a minor extent. Plans rely more on a range of actuarial risk data to set rates, and increasingly, plans are paying doctors a fixed, “capitated” payment to manage each patient’s overall health for the year, rather than paying for individual appointments or medical procedures.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fight with Governor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nonetheless, both the state Senate and Assembly have rejected the governor’s spending plan for the tobacco tax. Instead, each house has proposed setting aside hundreds of millions of dollars to fund provider rate increases that would directly benefit doctors who serve the 20 percent of Medi-Cal patients not covered by managed-care.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That’s still three million people,” says Anthony Wright, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.health-access.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health Access\u003c/a>, a patient advocacy group. “There is a rationale to do this.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wright points to dental care and family planning services as two specialties that mainly operate outside managed care plans, and have a “demonstrated need” for improved access.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2013-125.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state audit\u003c/a> found 16 counties in California had no dentists accepting new Medi-Cal patients, while Planned Parenthood recently announced it will close three of its reproductive health clinics in Northern California, and Women’s Health Specialists \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2017/05/19/womens-health-clinics-in-california-struggle-in-a-shifting-healthcare-landscape/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">closed another two\u003c/a>. Both clinic operators cited low Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for family planning services as the main reason for the closures.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than half of Planned Parenthood’s patients are covered by fee-for-service contracts with the state, and the Medi-Cal managed care contracts it does have, covering 31 percent of patients, specifically set fees to match the state rate, says Beth Parker, chief legal counsel for Planned Parenthood. A fee bump could help prevent more clinic closures. Also, making it easy for women to get contraception saves the state more money in the long run.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“California pays for \u003ca href=\"https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/state-facts-about-unintended-pregnancy-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">64 percent of unplanned births\u003c/a> in the state through the Medi-Cal program,\" she says. \"So every time an unplanned pregnancy is averted, it saves the state a tremendous amount of money, not just in the maternity costs, but also all the social services costs that come after.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state Senate and Assembly are both proposing giving a small portion of the tobacco tax money specifically to family planning providers ($50 million) and dentists (up to $247 million). 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Medicaid covers nursing home care if seniors can't pay for it themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people, when they think about Medicaid, they think of it as sort of a low-income, working population welfare health care program,” says Matt Salo, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors. “But what really comes as a big surprise to almost everybody is that that’s not where Medicaid spends most of its dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salo says Medicaid spends about two-thirds of its annual budget on the elderly and those with disabilities. And that’s why patient advocates say they’re worried about the Medicaid provision contained in the newly released \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52486\" target=\"_blank\">GOP plan \u003c/a>to replace and repeal Obamacare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2017/03/06/text-american-health-care-act/\" target=\"_blank\">legislation\u003c/a> would impose per-person limits on federal Medicaid spending, known as \"per capita caps.\" Those fixed spending limits would replace the existing funding approach in which the federal government provides matching funds of $1 to $3 for every $1 the state spends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Carlson is an attorney for the nonprofit advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://www.justiceinaging.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Justice in Aging\u003c/a>. He’s also co-author of a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.justiceinaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Medicaid-Funding-Caps-Would-Harm-Older-Americans.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> by the group , which says the proposed spending caps are certain to hurt older Americans who rely on Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really a form of rationing where you have the care based on the money that’s budgeted rather than on the needs of the people,” Carlson says. “And that’s entirely backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Oren Cass, a senior fellow with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.manhattan-institute.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Manhattan Institute, \u003c/a>disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just forces states to work within the budget constraints of a fixed amount of federal money, which, by the way, is how every other part of our federal government already works,” Cass says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the GOP plan would also remove some federal rules now imposed on states and give them more flexibility in how they spend their Medicaid dollars. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent rainy morning in Los Angeles, Maria Bernal’s stove clicks to life with a bright blue flame to toast bread on a griddle for her 9-year-old son Edwin to smear with peanut butter. As she scoops papaya chunks into the blender for a smoothie, she recalls her worry during all the years when she couldn’t afford health care and he suffered painful ear infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The waiting six months to get an appointment for Edwin at a county facility. The nights trying to calm him as he cried in constant pain. The months-long wait for each of three surgeries to insert tubes into his ears. The fear when the medical bills arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, she couldn’t afford health care, and he wasn't eligible for regular government-funded Medi-Cal coverage because she had brought Edwin to the United States illegally from Mexico when he was 1. He qualified for a local program and emergency Medi-Cal, but that didn’t provide all the care he needed. Then last year, she heard on TV that California was \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/eligibility/Documents/SB75/SB75_EE_Plan_032116_Final.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">creating a new program\u003c/a> under Medi-Cal to fully cover poor undocumented children. Relieved, she rushed to sign Edwin up. As a result, she says, “I can take him in whenever he needs to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, however, the ability of Edwin and some 164,000 poor undocumented California children to see a doctor for regular medical care hangs in the balance—with several experts predicting they could be among the first to lose health coverage if the Trump administration carries out its promise to end much of Obamacare, leaving California to try to make up the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be clear, the federal government does pay \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/eligibility/Pages/Medi-CalFAQs2014b.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">limited medical costs\u003c/a> for kids in the country illegally under the restricted-scope Medi-Cal program, which is available to anyone regardless of immigration status for emergency and prenatal services only. Last May, however, California became one of a handful of states to provide \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2016/04/21/48148/medi-cal-for-immigrant-kids-in-us-illegally-starts/\" target=\"_blank\">state-funded full-scope Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, California’s Medicaid program. About 71 percent of the program is funded by the state, according to the state \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/eligibility/Pages/SB-75.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Health Care Services\u003c/a>, with 29 percent paid for out of \u003ca href=\"https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/outreach-and-enrollment/downloads/overview-of-eligibility-for-non-citizens-in-medicaid-and-chip.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">federal funds\u003c/a> for emergency coverage. Also of note: Because the federal government funds emergency services, the state shares enrollee information with federal health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his most recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2017-18/pdf/BudgetSummary/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">budget proposal\u003c/a>, Gov. Jerry Brown allocated $279.5 million to cover approximately 185,000 kids in the coming year in what the state has dubbed its Health for All Kids program—double what the program was estimated to cost when it was approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the election of Donald Trump, who took office last week, some health policy experts and advocates say the fledgling program is in danger. Assuming the new administration carries out plans to change how Medicaid is funded, California could stand to lose $17 billion the federal government currently provides for the Medi-Cal expansion that California adopted under the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a cut would leave state leaders unable to fully make up the funding difference—and could force them to revisit a decades-old debate over whether the state has an obligation to care for sick children regardless of their immigration status, or should focus limited resources on citizens and legal residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s impossible to precisely predict the ripple effects. But, said Nancy Gomez, organizing director of the health advocacy organization \u003ca href=\"http://Health%20Access%20California\" target=\"_blank\">Health Access California\u003c/a>: “The first things that are going to go are these optional programs. They are not optional to us. But Health for All Kids are discretionary funds and they may be the first to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trying to make up the gap will be nearly impossible, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These federal cuts to the broader Medi-Cal program would force California policymakers to make some difficult decisions—raise revenue by unprecedented amounts to maintain the current program, cut benefits, reduce eligibility, or make other cuts to the program,” said Laurel Lucia, manager of the Health Care Program at the UC Berkeley \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Labor Research and Education\u003c/a>. But, she acknowledged, “if the Legislature decides to take a 'last in, first out' approach to making eligibility cuts in response to federal cuts, state-funded Medi-Cal for undocumented kids would especially be at risk because the expansion started less than one year ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s as is should be, according to those who insist that anyone in the country illegally should not receive state resources—especially if funding is cut short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sacramento should be focused on helping American citizens,” said Robin Hvidston, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://wethepeoplerising.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">We The People Rising\u003c/a>, a Claremont-based organization that fights against legislation that it says promotes illegal immigration. The group opposed the expansion, which she contends is merely an open invitation for illegal immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a program our state cannot afford,” she said. “We have a burgeoning homeless crisis in this state, we have disabled people in this state that need help. This energy and our tax dollars should be going to help our suffering American citizens in this state and not those here illegally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, the lawmaker who \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/californias-undocumented-kidswhy-they-could-be-first-to-lose-medical-care-under-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">authored\u003c/a> the expansion to cover undocumented children, Democratic Sen. Ricardo Lara of Los Angeles, has vowed to protect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will fight to ensure that they remain a priority population in terms of receiving adequate healthcare and meeting their health needs,” Lara said. “It makes economic sense, it’s the moral thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an unmistakable sign that the Democratic-controlled state is changing tactics in response to a less receptive White House, California recently \u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/news/california-withdraws-bid-to-allow-undocumented-immigrants-to-buy-unsubsidized-obamacare-plans/\" target=\"_blank\">retracted\u003c/a> its request for a federal waiver that it had hoped would allow undocumented immigrants of all ages to buy unsubsidized health care via California’s Affordable Care Act exchange. Lara labeled it the “first California casualty of the Trump presidency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the state could always renew its quest for such a waiver, but won’t until it first ensures that the state can protect the data immigrants would be sharing with the federal government by using the health exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very clear and apparent that we are dealing with a hostile administration toward our immigration community,” Lara said. “Given the fact that we are working currently on legislation to protect the privacy of the immigrant communities, we felt that it was appropriate to pull the waiver and focus on the fights ahead with the incoming administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress favor establishing caps on Medicaid and changing funding to a block grant formula that sets limits on total spending per state regardless of how many people are in the program. Currently it is funded as an entitlement for all enrollees who qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medicaid is the largest insurer in the country, with 73 million people enrolled, mostly low-income or disabled. In California, 13.5 million people are on Medi-Cal, or roughly one in three Californians. The program grew by 3.6 million people when it was expanded under the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that the proposals to reorganize Medicaid funding would decrease funding by one-third to one-half within a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such federal cuts would trigger a cascade of effects, said Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the Trump administration decides to remove and take away access to quality healthcare that could possibly drive a budget deficit—and if you drive a budget deficit that means cuts would have to be made,” he said at a health care rally in Los Angeles after the November election. “If cuts have to be made that means other people could be hurt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others aren’t ready to concede that outcome, and say there are likely alternatives the state can employ to keep as many people covered as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is if Congress has enough votes to change the Medicaid program into a block grant program, California will struggle to maintain its commitment to the 13.5 million people currently covered,” said Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. “I suspect the governor and Legislature will give higher priority to cutting covered services rather than cutting the number of beneficiaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Lara said he hopes the state resists choosing one group over another—adding that he plans to suggest cutting coverage, as the state has done during lean times, or increasing eligibility thresholds in his fight to keep health care for the neediest across all groups, including undocumented children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for 9-year-old Edwin Bernal, he says going to the doctor more often is good for him because of his hearing challenges and ear tubes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_287952\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Bernal, 30, cooks breakfast for her son Edwin Bernal, 9, before school at their home in Los Angeles. His mother fears that under the Trump administration the program will be in danger.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-287952\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Bernal, 30, cooks breakfast for her son Edwin Bernal, 9, before school at their home in Los Angeles. His mother fears that under the Trump administration the program will be in danger. \u003ccite>(Maria J. Avila/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My friends talk to me and I’m like ‘what, what,’ because I can’t hear them that good,” he said. “Same with my mom, she tells me something and I don’t really hear her and I don’t do the stuff she tells me because I can’t hear. So it’s better, I can hear her and I’m not getting in more trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If kids like Edwin lose Medi-Cal overage, their health care will depend largely on where they live. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, the county offers a basic low-cost program to everyone regardless of immigration status and emergency Medi-Cal is expected to still be available. Private insurer Kaiser Permanente also offers a community benefit program for kids without legal status who live near their facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be a challenge for us and the patients,” said Chona de Leon, senior vice president and chief operating officer at Eisner Pediatric & Family Center, in downtown Los Angeles, where Edwin has received care since he was a baby. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinics like Eisner would lose the increased funding that has come from previously uninsured patients getting access through the Affordable Care Act. de Leon says they would continue to serve uninsured patients as they always have, although they would have to work hard to find outside funding and donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 11 California counties, including Orange and San Diego, there are no programs for undocumented families to find care for their children outside of charitable clinics and hospital emergency rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://CALmatters.org\" target=\"_blank\">CALmatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California’s policies and politics.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Assuming the new administration carries out plans to change how Medicaid is funded, California could stand to lose $17 billion the federal government currently provides for the Medi-Cal expansion that California adopted under the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a cut would leave state leaders unable to fully make up the funding difference—and could force them to revisit a decades-old debate over whether the state has an obligation to care for sick children regardless of their immigration status, or should focus limited resources on citizens and legal residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s impossible to precisely predict the ripple effects. But, said Nancy Gomez, organizing director of the health advocacy organization \u003ca href=\"http://Health%20Access%20California\" target=\"_blank\">Health Access California\u003c/a>: “The first things that are going to go are these optional programs. They are not optional to us. But Health for All Kids are discretionary funds and they may be the first to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trying to make up the gap will be nearly impossible, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These federal cuts to the broader Medi-Cal program would force California policymakers to make some difficult decisions—raise revenue by unprecedented amounts to maintain the current program, cut benefits, reduce eligibility, or make other cuts to the program,” said Laurel Lucia, manager of the Health Care Program at the UC Berkeley \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Labor Research and Education\u003c/a>. But, she acknowledged, “if the Legislature decides to take a 'last in, first out' approach to making eligibility cuts in response to federal cuts, state-funded Medi-Cal for undocumented kids would especially be at risk because the expansion started less than one year ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s as is should be, according to those who insist that anyone in the country illegally should not receive state resources—especially if funding is cut short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sacramento should be focused on helping American citizens,” said Robin Hvidston, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://wethepeoplerising.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">We The People Rising\u003c/a>, a Claremont-based organization that fights against legislation that it says promotes illegal immigration. The group opposed the expansion, which she contends is merely an open invitation for illegal immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a program our state cannot afford,” she said. “We have a burgeoning homeless crisis in this state, we have disabled people in this state that need help. This energy and our tax dollars should be going to help our suffering American citizens in this state and not those here illegally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, the lawmaker who \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/californias-undocumented-kidswhy-they-could-be-first-to-lose-medical-care-under-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">authored\u003c/a> the expansion to cover undocumented children, Democratic Sen. Ricardo Lara of Los Angeles, has vowed to protect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will fight to ensure that they remain a priority population in terms of receiving adequate healthcare and meeting their health needs,” Lara said. “It makes economic sense, it’s the moral thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an unmistakable sign that the Democratic-controlled state is changing tactics in response to a less receptive White House, California recently \u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/news/california-withdraws-bid-to-allow-undocumented-immigrants-to-buy-unsubsidized-obamacare-plans/\" target=\"_blank\">retracted\u003c/a> its request for a federal waiver that it had hoped would allow undocumented immigrants of all ages to buy unsubsidized health care via California’s Affordable Care Act exchange. Lara labeled it the “first California casualty of the Trump presidency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the state could always renew its quest for such a waiver, but won’t until it first ensures that the state can protect the data immigrants would be sharing with the federal government by using the health exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very clear and apparent that we are dealing with a hostile administration toward our immigration community,” Lara said. “Given the fact that we are working currently on legislation to protect the privacy of the immigrant communities, we felt that it was appropriate to pull the waiver and focus on the fights ahead with the incoming administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress favor establishing caps on Medicaid and changing funding to a block grant formula that sets limits on total spending per state regardless of how many people are in the program. Currently it is funded as an entitlement for all enrollees who qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medicaid is the largest insurer in the country, with 73 million people enrolled, mostly low-income or disabled. In California, 13.5 million people are on Medi-Cal, or roughly one in three Californians. The program grew by 3.6 million people when it was expanded under the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that the proposals to reorganize Medicaid funding would decrease funding by one-third to one-half within a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such federal cuts would trigger a cascade of effects, said Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the Trump administration decides to remove and take away access to quality healthcare that could possibly drive a budget deficit—and if you drive a budget deficit that means cuts would have to be made,” he said at a health care rally in Los Angeles after the November election. “If cuts have to be made that means other people could be hurt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others aren’t ready to concede that outcome, and say there are likely alternatives the state can employ to keep as many people covered as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is if Congress has enough votes to change the Medicaid program into a block grant program, California will struggle to maintain its commitment to the 13.5 million people currently covered,” said Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. “I suspect the governor and Legislature will give higher priority to cutting covered services rather than cutting the number of beneficiaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Lara said he hopes the state resists choosing one group over another—adding that he plans to suggest cutting coverage, as the state has done during lean times, or increasing eligibility thresholds in his fight to keep health care for the neediest across all groups, including undocumented children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for 9-year-old Edwin Bernal, he says going to the doctor more often is good for him because of his hearing challenges and ear tubes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_287952\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Bernal, 30, cooks breakfast for her son Edwin Bernal, 9, before school at their home in Los Angeles. His mother fears that under the Trump administration the program will be in danger.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-287952\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/01/UNDOCUMENTED-KIDS-Photo-2-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Bernal, 30, cooks breakfast for her son Edwin Bernal, 9, before school at their home in Los Angeles. His mother fears that under the Trump administration the program will be in danger. \u003ccite>(Maria J. Avila/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My friends talk to me and I’m like ‘what, what,’ because I can’t hear them that good,” he said. “Same with my mom, she tells me something and I don’t really hear her and I don’t do the stuff she tells me because I can’t hear. So it’s better, I can hear her and I’m not getting in more trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If kids like Edwin lose Medi-Cal overage, their health care will depend largely on where they live. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, the county offers a basic low-cost program to everyone regardless of immigration status and emergency Medi-Cal is expected to still be available. Private insurer Kaiser Permanente also offers a community benefit program for kids without legal status who live near their facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be a challenge for us and the patients,” said Chona de Leon, senior vice president and chief operating officer at Eisner Pediatric & Family Center, in downtown Los Angeles, where Edwin has received care since he was a baby. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinics like Eisner would lose the increased funding that has come from previously uninsured patients getting access through the Affordable Care Act. de Leon says they would continue to serve uninsured patients as they always have, although they would have to work hard to find outside funding and donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 11 California counties, including Orange and San Diego, there are no programs for undocumented families to find care for their children outside of charitable clinics and hospital emergency rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Gov. Jerry Brown unveils his 2017-18 budget Tuesday, there will be one huge question mark hanging over the proposal: What will it cost California when congressional Republicans follow through on their promise to dismantle Obamacare?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GOP lawmakers, along with President-elect Donald Trump, have \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/03/republicans-take-the-first-step-to-repeal-obamacare/\">vowed to repeal the landmark health care law\u003c/a> and replace it with something. But what that something will be is still unknown -- and since California wholeheartedly embraced the Affordable Care Act and insured millions of poor residents through its Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, any rollback is likely to punch a huge hole in the state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/301686124\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2014, Medi-Cal rolls have swelled from about 8 million Californians to about 14 million. One reason: the Affordable Care Act greatly expanded Medicaid eligibility for childless, low-income adults -- more than 3 million new Medi-Cal enrollees have qualified because of that change since 2014. Along with the expanded eligibility came expanded federal funding for Medi-Cal, to the tune of more than $15 billion this fiscal year alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, there are huge questions for both state leaders, who have depended on that federal funding, and the millions of Californians who have benefitted from the expansion of Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"(I'm) really worried,\" said UC Berkeley graduate student Rebecca Fritton, who enrolled in Medi-Cal last summer when she turned 26 and could no longer get coverage from her mother's insurance plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'If they got rid of that funding, you would have 3 million people on the streets without health insurance, and we would be dead in the water.'\u003ccite>State Sen. Ed Hernandez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Fritton wouldn't have been eligible to join Medi-Cal before Obamacare. But after the health care law? Fritton said enrolling was a breeze -- she was even able to keep her primary care doctor at UCSF when she made the switch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has proven to be such a helpful resource for me ... so it’s just a little scary that it could be taken away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fritton considers herself lucky -- she has another option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We get offered health insurance through Berkeley, but it’s pretty expensive and I already have lots of student loans out,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not the case for many other Medi-Cal recipients, said state Sen. Ed Hernandez, who is an optometrist and chairs the Senate's Health Committee. He said there's no way California could keep those millions of new people insured if federal funding disappeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they got rid of that funding, you would have 3 million people on the streets without health insurance, and we would be dead in the water. That is my biggest concern,\" he said. \"I mean, we don't have the additional dollars, so if that money is not available, patients won't get access to health care. That's the bottom line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"UgPaWX92hhGiw9hvTFk5GdsgL7J6tRrH\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor is well aware that funding could disappear, said H.D. Palmer, a spokesman for the Department of Finance. But since the Republican plan is still unclear, California can only budget based on current law, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't know yet what changes are in the works specifically for the Affordable Care Act -- but we know there is a very high likelihood that they will happen, so we recognize it as a broad fiscal pressure on state government,\" Palmer said. \"Until and unless there is a change, however, the ACA constitutes the rules of the road -- those are the governing statutes that we budget by and abide by.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the governor's annual budget revision in May will offer the state an opportunity to tweak Brown's proposal if Republicans have made any concrete decisions by then. In general, he said, Brown's administration is trying to keep costs down because of a number of unknown factors, including potential Obamacare changes and whether California's economy will remain strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the things that we are doing is make sure the state doesn't overcommit itself to ongoing levels of spending that may not be sustainable,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The number of people at Brian and Laura Smart’s San Jose home has been steadily growing since February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By June, it reached six adults: Brian's parents, Laura's mother and an au pair. They're all part of a makeshift medical team aimed at keeping Noah, Brian and Laura's one-year-old son, alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last July, Noah was born with \u003ca href=\"http://www.pted.org/?id=shones1\" target=\"_blank\">Shone’s Complex,\u003c/a> a rare congenital heart disease. In February, he suffered a stroke during a surgical procedure, which further disabled him. 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She specializes in pediatric neurodevelopmental disabilities at Stanford, where she treats Noah. After Noah suffered the stroke, he started having seizures and muscles spasms, Sukumaran says. “He would cry out, be very distressed. ... He was having a harder time digesting his milk, so he was throwing up 10 to 20 times a day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah has a feeding pump, a suction machine, and needs oxygen, his father says. These needs are highly complex, and while some members of Noah's makeshift support system have medical skills -- Brian's mother is a retired registered nurse, the au pair has a nursing license from the Philippines -- everyone agrees this care system is not sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ideally, we would want a nurse 24 hours a day,” Brian says, although he also says they’d take even 8-hour support. But trying to access that level of care has been a months-long odyssey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brian and Laura are both employed full time and have health insurance with United Healthcare through Laura's job at Apple. Despite the insurance, they estimate they're paying $5,000 a month, out-of-pocket, for hired care and copays.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Smarts applied to get an in-home nurse covered by United Healthcare and were denied. The insurance company claimed the care Noah needed was custodial, meaning it was the same as the care that comes with having any baby. They appealed, and were denied again, even though a home nurse would help them avoid emergency room visits that would quickly cost the insurer more than a home nurse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_215866\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-215866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/SyringesCU-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the 15 doses of medication Noah Smart will need each day. \" width=\"400\" height=\"267\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the 15 doses of medication Noah Smart will need each day. \u003ccite>(Jordan Katz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Smarts next turned to Medi-Cal, the state's health insurance generally for people who are low income. Severely disabled children can be deemed eligible for the program, even if their parents’ income exceeds usual limits. This was a waiver the Smarts sought for Noah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting a waiver is just the first hurdle and no guarantee Noah will actually be able to get the nursing care he needs. The problem is home health agencies that provide the care have trouble attracting nurses to meet the pressing demand by families, and they blame low Medi-Cal reimbursement rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On paper, there are all these pediatric home health agencies,\" says Sherri Sager, chief government and community relations officer of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. “To meet the demand for pediatric home health nurses, the supply is nowhere near what we need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Maxim Healthcare Services, a home health agency that connects families with nurses, Kris Frank says he is finding it harder and harder to recruit and retain registered nurses, because the rates they offer are so low compared to what nurses can earn at hospitals or other skilled nursing facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the average hourly rate for a registered nurse working in the Bay Area is around $65 an hour, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_41884.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a>. The reimbursement rate Maxim says it receives for a registered nurse caring for a Medi-Cal patient is $40.16 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Frank says Maxim pays all its nurses the same rate whether the agency is reimbursed by Medi-Cal or another insurer, the net effect of a lower Medi-Cal reimbursement rates to the home health agency is a lower rate overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We blend the rates,” Frank explains. \"but costs go up, and we just can’t continue to pay enough for us to fill all the approved shifts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Crane, Maxim's director of clinical services, first came to the agency as a home health nurse after she and her husband moved to the Bay Area from New York. When she arrived, she says she was “taken aback” by the difference in wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was less than half of what I had been making ten years ago in New York,” Crane says. “Caring in the home, where you don’t have other doctors or other nurses around to support your assessment and your decisions, is a bit of a daunting task.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know this is a different state, but the rates for nursing to be done in the home are just so sub-standard,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now her job is to convince nurses to work in home health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am in the predicament of trying to get nurses to come here and get them to understand how important home health is, even though it’s not financially rewarding,” Crane says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, Frank says, the nurses that agencies like Maxim need to recruit are highly-skilled, almost to the level of a hospital neo-natal intensive care unit. “But we’re bringing them in-home,\" he says, \"and some nurses don’t want to work in the home.\" Then when he tells them the rate, he says, they balk. \"They think, ‘Well, heck. I could be making more working as a waitress, or a waiter—a lot more.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maxim has been working with Sen. Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg, to pass legislation that addresses the issue. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1401\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 1401\u003c/a>, first introduced in March, would establish a three-year pilot program in three regions around California— including the Bay Area. Under the pilot, Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for registered nurses and licensed vocational nurses would be increased 20 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, McGuire pointed out that in-home nursing is cost-effective. “It costs 10 times more each day to care for a child in a hospital,\" he said, \"than it does to care for that child at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Cava, spokesman for the Department of Health Care Services which oversees Medi-Cal, said that the agency was \"not aware of any significant access issues\" with home health care for Medi-Cal recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a family is unable to find a home health agency -- or HHA -- to provide prescribed nursing service, Cava said that \"DHCS nurses [would] provide assistance to the family by referring them to other Medi-Cal-approved HHAs, individual nurse providers, and pediatric day health care centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But implementing SB 1401 would cost more than $20 million to implement, according to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1401\" target=\"_blank\">an analysis \u003c/a>presented to the Senate Committee on Appropriations. The bill was ultimately held in the committee earlier this year and cannot be re-introduced until next January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, home health agencies struggle to fill the hours that patients need. “We should be filling 100 percent,\" Frank says, but even when nurses call in sick, \"we have no backup nurses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the Smarts—after months of phone calls and paperwork, Noah is on track to get Medi-Cal coverage. What's unclear is whether that coverage will make a difference, given the shortage of in-home pediatric nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Smart knew that even with coverage, Noah's name might linger on a wait list for care for a year—or more. Still, he decided it was worth a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I filled out the paperwork as a just-in-case,” Brian says. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The number of people at Brian and Laura Smart’s San Jose home has been steadily growing since February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By June, it reached six adults: Brian's parents, Laura's mother and an au pair. They're all part of a makeshift medical team aimed at keeping Noah, Brian and Laura's one-year-old son, alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last July, Noah was born with \u003ca href=\"http://www.pted.org/?id=shones1\" target=\"_blank\">Shone’s Complex,\u003c/a> a rare congenital heart disease. In February, he suffered a stroke during a surgical procedure, which further disabled him. Noah is now dependent on a ventilator and a gastric tube, and he takes nine medications every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had this little boy who was rolling over and playing with us and now we have this body that vomits and cries, and it’s torture.” Brian says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_218054\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-218054 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/NoahSmart-400x250.jpg\" alt=\"Noah Smart was born in July 2015 with a severe congenital heart disease. \" width=\"400\" height=\"250\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah Smart was born in July 2015 with a severe congenital heart disease. \u003ccite>(Jordan Katz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What Noah was up until then, Noah is not anymore,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/doctor/default?id=meera-sukumaran\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Meera Sukumaran\u003c/a>. She specializes in pediatric neurodevelopmental disabilities at Stanford, where she treats Noah. After Noah suffered the stroke, he started having seizures and muscles spasms, Sukumaran says. “He would cry out, be very distressed. ... He was having a harder time digesting his milk, so he was throwing up 10 to 20 times a day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Despite the insurance, they estimate they're paying $5,000 a month, out-of-pocket, for hired care and copays.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Smarts applied to get an in-home nurse covered by United Healthcare and were denied. The insurance company claimed the care Noah needed was custodial, meaning it was the same as the care that comes with having any baby. They appealed, and were denied again, even though a home nurse would help them avoid emergency room visits that would quickly cost the insurer more than a home nurse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_215866\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-215866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/SyringesCU-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the 15 doses of medication Noah Smart will need each day. \" width=\"400\" height=\"267\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the 15 doses of medication Noah Smart will need each day. \u003ccite>(Jordan Katz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Smarts next turned to Medi-Cal, the state's health insurance generally for people who are low income. Severely disabled children can be deemed eligible for the program, even if their parents’ income exceeds usual limits. This was a waiver the Smarts sought for Noah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting a waiver is just the first hurdle and no guarantee Noah will actually be able to get the nursing care he needs. The problem is home health agencies that provide the care have trouble attracting nurses to meet the pressing demand by families, and they blame low Medi-Cal reimbursement rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On paper, there are all these pediatric home health agencies,\" says Sherri Sager, chief government and community relations officer of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. “To meet the demand for pediatric home health nurses, the supply is nowhere near what we need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Maxim Healthcare Services, a home health agency that connects families with nurses, Kris Frank says he is finding it harder and harder to recruit and retain registered nurses, because the rates they offer are so low compared to what nurses can earn at hospitals or other skilled nursing facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the average hourly rate for a registered nurse working in the Bay Area is around $65 an hour, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_41884.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a>. The reimbursement rate Maxim says it receives for a registered nurse caring for a Medi-Cal patient is $40.16 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Frank says Maxim pays all its nurses the same rate whether the agency is reimbursed by Medi-Cal or another insurer, the net effect of a lower Medi-Cal reimbursement rates to the home health agency is a lower rate overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We blend the rates,” Frank explains. \"but costs go up, and we just can’t continue to pay enough for us to fill all the approved shifts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Crane, Maxim's director of clinical services, first came to the agency as a home health nurse after she and her husband moved to the Bay Area from New York. 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Under the pilot, Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for registered nurses and licensed vocational nurses would be increased 20 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, McGuire pointed out that in-home nursing is cost-effective. “It costs 10 times more each day to care for a child in a hospital,\" he said, \"than it does to care for that child at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Cava, spokesman for the Department of Health Care Services which oversees Medi-Cal, said that the agency was \"not aware of any significant access issues\" with home health care for Medi-Cal recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a family is unable to find a home health agency -- or HHA -- to provide prescribed nursing service, Cava said that \"DHCS nurses [would] provide assistance to the family by referring them to other Medi-Cal-approved HHAs, individual nurse providers, and pediatric day health care centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But implementing SB 1401 would cost more than $20 million to implement, according to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1401\" target=\"_blank\">an analysis \u003c/a>presented to the Senate Committee on Appropriations. 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