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Well, that doesn’t work.'\u003ccite>Jesse Sandoval, farm labor contractor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some are also concerned that the forms they must file with the federal government under the Affordable Care Act will bring immigration problems to the fore: about \u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-labor/background.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">half of the farm labor workforce\u003c/a> in the U.S. is undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s definitely going to be some repercussions to it,” says Jesse Sandoval, a farm labor contractor based in Stockton. \"I think there’s going to be some things that cannot be ignored.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval came to an educational conference for farm labor contractors -- essentially staffing agencies for field workers -- held at the San Joaquin County Agricultural Center in Stockton last fall. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Legislature reconvenes its extraordinary session on health care Monday and officially embarks on the long public debate over the governor's proposed budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost every budget proposal is greeted with opinions about what's missing in it. The big question is, among the cacophony of requests for more funding, which big-ticket health care proposal is likely to be advanced by legislative leaders?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/01/07/browns-budget-plan-new-managed-care-tax-increase-ssi-benefits-more-medi-cal-enrollment/\" target=\"_blank\">front-burner issue is replacing the $1.1 billion \"MCO\" \u003c/a>(managed care organization) tax, and both the state Senate and Assembly are convening their special sessions on health today to address it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the higher-profile pieces of health legislation this session will be on the agenda Monday because the special session on health didn't adjourn when the regular session did last year. A slate of anti-tobacco bills introduced in special session also will be raised in the Assembly today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health coverage for undocumented adults promises to be pushed hard in the Legislature this year after that effort ended in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/06/17/california-budget-includes-health-coverage-of-undocumented-children-a-first-nationally/\" target=\"_blank\">compromise last year to cover undocumented children\u003c/a> in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB10\" target=\"_blank\">SB10\u003c/a> by Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, picks up where last year's compromise bill left off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The budget proposal misses important opportunities to invest in the health of California’s new majority, communities of color,\" said Sarah de Guia, executive director of the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coverage for undocumented children is expected to begin May 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of bills will be heard today in special session, including proposal to impose a $2-a-pack tax on cigarettes and a bill to apply the same regulations to e-cigarettes that are followed by traditional cigarettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More funding for seniors and the disabled will likely be on the Legislature's agenda this year. That population got a boost from an extension of the Coordinated Care Initiative and a bump in Supplemental Security Income and restoration of a 7 percent cut in In-Home Supportive Services hours -- but that's not enough, according to advocacy organization Justice in Aging, particularly since the IHSS restoration was a court-brokered agreement. \"More action and bolder policies will be needed to lift seniors and people with disabilities out of poverty,\" the group said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And according to Doug Moore, president of UDW/AFSCME Local 3930, those bolder policies must go beyond tying help for the developmentally disabled to the MCO tax. \"… People with disabilities, seniors, and caregivers are tired of being held hostage as Sacramento bickers about passing renewed taxes,\" Moore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do need additional, long-term revenues, but using vulnerable Californians' health and welfare as a bargaining chip is simply not acceptable.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown introduced his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/07/browns-budget-mantra-caution\" target=\"_blank\">$122.6 billion general fund budget\u003c/a> in Sacramento on Thursday, including a new approach to replacing a soon-to-expire tax on managed care organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The present MCO tax will end on June 30 if legislators cannot agree on a replacement. California faces the loss of $1.1 billion in revenue, including federal match funds. A plan launched last year during a special legislative session on health did not advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is now proposing an overall reform package on taxes insurers pay that he says will ultimately save them money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's lowering the corporate tax, lowering the premiums tax,\" Brown said, \"and you blend all that together. 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There will be more discussions this week with the administration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some are already critical of the proposed plan, which earmarks some of the MCO revenue to the Department of Developmental Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Hornbecker, director of business development for The Arc of Alameda County, believes tying developmental disabilities funding to the MCO tax is the governor’s way of garnering Republican support for the tax -- he needs a two-thirds vote from the Legislature for the tax to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor is using people with developmental disabilities as pawns in the system, until he can get his votes from Republicans,” Hornbecker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Tom Lackey, R-Palmdale, did not approve of the approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These folks deserve to be a top consideration in the general funding arena,\" he said. \"And they’ve been an ‘oh, by the way’ consideration, which is deplorable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SSI Increase\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget includes a 2.8 percent increase in benefits for people who receive Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP). An estimated 1.3 million people are expected to receive monthly benefits in 2016-17, and their maximum grants will be $889 per month for individuals and $1,496 per month for couples, an increase of $17 and $31 respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Medi-Cal Enrollment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's Medi-Cal enrollment is expected to reach a new high in the next fiscal year -- 13.5 million people, or more than a third of all Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California expanded Medi-Cal as part of the Affordable Care Act. The federal government has been paying 100 percent of the cost of those in the expansion population, but in 2017, California will be responsible for 5 percent of that cost, or $740.2 million in general fund money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is responsible for half the cost of those who were always eligible for Medi-Cal but did not sign up until the Affordable Care Act went into effect. 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"content": "\u003cp>With January comes lots of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/05/462036387/best-diets-2016-from-fastest-weight-loss-to-conquering-cravings\" target=\"_blank\">diet advice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And today comes the official advice from the U.S. government: The Obama administration has released its much-anticipated update to the Dietary Guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidelines, which are revised every five years, are based on evolving nutrition science and serve as the government's official advice on what to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One concrete change: Americans are being told to limit sugar to no more than 10 percent of daily calories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we've reported, lots of Americans consume up to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/02/03/271130613/sweet-tooth-gone-bad-why-22-teaspoons-of-sugar-per-day-is-deadly\" target=\"_blank\">22 teaspoons a day\u003c/a>. To meet the new 10 percent target, they'd need to cut their sugar intake by nearly half — to no more than 12 teaspoons a day on a 2,000-calorie daily diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135768\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-135768\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/dietary-guidelines-3_enl-3b6d77ab9d1748e166f4a2d3ac684fd4f299ee2e-400x608.jpg\" alt=\"These two muffins each contain 35 grams (about 8 teaspoons) of sugar. Add in a cup of sweetened blueberry Greek yogurt (18 grams, or about 4 teaspoons, of sugar) and you've got 22 teaspoons of sugar – the amount many Americans eat per day. Under the new Dietary Guidelines, we should eat no more than 10 percent of daily calories from sugar. On a 2,000-calorie daily diet, that's about 12 teaspoons.\" width=\"400\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/dietary-guidelines-3_enl-3b6d77ab9d1748e166f4a2d3ac684fd4f299ee2e-400x608.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/dietary-guidelines-3_enl-3b6d77ab9d1748e166f4a2d3ac684fd4f299ee2e-800x1216.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/dietary-guidelines-3_enl-3b6d77ab9d1748e166f4a2d3ac684fd4f299ee2e-768x1167.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/dietary-guidelines-3_enl-3b6d77ab9d1748e166f4a2d3ac684fd4f299ee2e-1180x1793.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/dietary-guidelines-3_enl-3b6d77ab9d1748e166f4a2d3ac684fd4f299ee2e-960x1459.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/dietary-guidelines-3_enl-3b6d77ab9d1748e166f4a2d3ac684fd4f299ee2e.jpg 1316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These two muffins each contain 35 grams (about 8 teaspoons) of sugar. Add in a cup of sweetened blueberry Greek yogurt (18 grams, or about 4 teaspoons, of sugar) and you've got 22 teaspoons of sugar – the amount many Americans eat per day. Under the new Dietary Guidelines, we should eat no more than 10 percent of daily calories from sugar. On a 2,000-calorie daily diet, that's about 12 teaspoons. \u003ccite>(Morgan McCloy/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the past five years, a growing body of evidence has linked high levels of sugar consumption to an increased risk of Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, even among Americans who are not overweight or obese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the dietary advice included in the new guidelines will sound very familiar and remains unchanged from 2010. For instance, there's a focus on consuming more fruits and vegetables, more fiber and whole grains, and less salt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top administration officials within the U.S. departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, who were tasked with writing the guidelines, decided not to include some of the recommendations made by a Dietary Guidelines advisory panel that reviewed the latest nutrition science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the advisory committee had recommended including \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/12/15/370427441/congress-to-nutritionists-dont-talk-about-the-environment\" target=\"_blank\">sustainability\u003c/a> as a factor in making food choices. But administration officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/06/446369955/new-dietary-guidelines-will-not-include-sustainability-goal\" target=\"_blank\">nixed that idea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee had also advised telling Americans to cut back on red and processed meats. But that recommendation sparked a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/24/393859592/why-theres-a-big-battle-brewing-over-the-lean-meat-in-your-diet\">vigorous challenge\u003c/a> from the meat industry, and the final dietary guidelines do not include any specific advice to cut back on these sources of protein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recommendation \"was certainly controversial,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.human.cornell.edu/bio.cfm?netid=jtb4\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Brenna\u003c/a>, a nutrition professor at Cornell University and member of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The red and processed meat recommendation, I think, has morphed a bit into a different kind of message,\" Brenna tells us. \"A little bit like turning a coin over, in a sense, where if you eat less red meat, one is eating more of other protein foods.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the guidelines emphasize a \"shift towards other protein foods\" — including more nuts and seeds and about 8 ounces of seafood per week, based on a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135771\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-01-07 at 8.31.26 AM\" width=\"820\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM.png 820w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM-400x367.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM-800x735.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM-768x705.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\">The suggestion to limit meat intake comes in more subtle form. For instance, the guidelines point out that many teen boys and adult men consume more than the recommended 26 ounces a week of protein from animal sources, so they should \"reduce overall intake of protein foods by decreasing intakes of meat, poultry, and eggs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also an overall recommendation — unchanged from 2010 — to reduce saturated fat intake to less than 10 percent of daily diet, a shift that could, in practice, require limiting intake of red meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The message to eat more seafood, legumes and other protein foods really does mean substitute those for red meat,\" Brenna says. \"So I think the message is more or less there, it's just not as clear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That message to cut the red meat should have been stated more directly, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/nutrans/popkin\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Popkin\u003c/a>, a nutrition researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. \"I am disappointed that the USDA once again is cutting out recommendations to truly limit red meat intake,\" he tells us in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other major change to the government's nutrition advice: dietary cholesterol. The new guidelines drop a long-standing recommendation to limit cholesterol from foods to 300 milligrams a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.nutrition.tufts.edu/faculty/lichtenstein-alice\" target=\"_blank\">Alice Lichtenstein\u003c/a>, vice chairwoman of the the expert panel that advised the government on the guidelines, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/19/387517506/nutrition-panel-egg-with-coffee-is-a-ok-but-skip-the-side-of-bacon\" target=\"_blank\">told us\u003c/a> last February, there isn't strong evidence that limiting cholesterol-rich foods lowers the amount of artery-clogging LDL cholesterol that ends up in the blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidelines also call on Americans to cut sodium to no more than 2,300 milligrams per day. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With January comes lots of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/05/462036387/best-diets-2016-from-fastest-weight-loss-to-conquering-cravings\" target=\"_blank\">diet advice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And today comes the official advice from the U.S. government: The Obama administration has released its much-anticipated update to the Dietary Guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidelines, which are revised every five years, are based on evolving nutrition science and serve as the government's official advice on what to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One concrete change: Americans are being told to limit sugar to no more than 10 percent of daily calories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we've reported, lots of Americans consume up to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/02/03/271130613/sweet-tooth-gone-bad-why-22-teaspoons-of-sugar-per-day-is-deadly\" target=\"_blank\">22 teaspoons a day\u003c/a>. To meet the new 10 percent target, they'd need to cut their sugar intake by nearly half — to no more than 12 teaspoons a day on a 2,000-calorie daily diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135768\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-135768\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/dietary-guidelines-3_enl-3b6d77ab9d1748e166f4a2d3ac684fd4f299ee2e-400x608.jpg\" alt=\"These two muffins each contain 35 grams (about 8 teaspoons) of sugar. Add in a cup of sweetened blueberry Greek yogurt (18 grams, or about 4 teaspoons, of sugar) and you've got 22 teaspoons of sugar – the amount many Americans eat per day. Under the new Dietary Guidelines, we should eat no more than 10 percent of daily calories from sugar. On a 2,000-calorie daily diet, that's about 12 teaspoons.\" width=\"400\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/dietary-guidelines-3_enl-3b6d77ab9d1748e166f4a2d3ac684fd4f299ee2e-400x608.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/dietary-guidelines-3_enl-3b6d77ab9d1748e166f4a2d3ac684fd4f299ee2e-800x1216.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/dietary-guidelines-3_enl-3b6d77ab9d1748e166f4a2d3ac684fd4f299ee2e-768x1167.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/dietary-guidelines-3_enl-3b6d77ab9d1748e166f4a2d3ac684fd4f299ee2e-1180x1793.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/dietary-guidelines-3_enl-3b6d77ab9d1748e166f4a2d3ac684fd4f299ee2e-960x1459.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/dietary-guidelines-3_enl-3b6d77ab9d1748e166f4a2d3ac684fd4f299ee2e.jpg 1316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These two muffins each contain 35 grams (about 8 teaspoons) of sugar. Add in a cup of sweetened blueberry Greek yogurt (18 grams, or about 4 teaspoons, of sugar) and you've got 22 teaspoons of sugar – the amount many Americans eat per day. Under the new Dietary Guidelines, we should eat no more than 10 percent of daily calories from sugar. On a 2,000-calorie daily diet, that's about 12 teaspoons. \u003ccite>(Morgan McCloy/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the past five years, a growing body of evidence has linked high levels of sugar consumption to an increased risk of Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, even among Americans who are not overweight or obese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the dietary advice included in the new guidelines will sound very familiar and remains unchanged from 2010. For instance, there's a focus on consuming more fruits and vegetables, more fiber and whole grains, and less salt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top administration officials within the U.S. departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, who were tasked with writing the guidelines, decided not to include some of the recommendations made by a Dietary Guidelines advisory panel that reviewed the latest nutrition science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the advisory committee had recommended including \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/12/15/370427441/congress-to-nutritionists-dont-talk-about-the-environment\" target=\"_blank\">sustainability\u003c/a> as a factor in making food choices. But administration officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/06/446369955/new-dietary-guidelines-will-not-include-sustainability-goal\" target=\"_blank\">nixed that idea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee had also advised telling Americans to cut back on red and processed meats. But that recommendation sparked a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/24/393859592/why-theres-a-big-battle-brewing-over-the-lean-meat-in-your-diet\">vigorous challenge\u003c/a> from the meat industry, and the final dietary guidelines do not include any specific advice to cut back on these sources of protein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recommendation \"was certainly controversial,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.human.cornell.edu/bio.cfm?netid=jtb4\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Brenna\u003c/a>, a nutrition professor at Cornell University and member of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The red and processed meat recommendation, I think, has morphed a bit into a different kind of message,\" Brenna tells us. \"A little bit like turning a coin over, in a sense, where if you eat less red meat, one is eating more of other protein foods.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the guidelines emphasize a \"shift towards other protein foods\" — including more nuts and seeds and about 8 ounces of seafood per week, based on a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135771\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-01-07 at 8.31.26 AM\" width=\"820\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM.png 820w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM-400x367.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM-800x735.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM-768x705.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\">The suggestion to limit meat intake comes in more subtle form. For instance, the guidelines point out that many teen boys and adult men consume more than the recommended 26 ounces a week of protein from animal sources, so they should \"reduce overall intake of protein foods by decreasing intakes of meat, poultry, and eggs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also an overall recommendation — unchanged from 2010 — to reduce saturated fat intake to less than 10 percent of daily diet, a shift that could, in practice, require limiting intake of red meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The message to eat more seafood, legumes and other protein foods really does mean substitute those for red meat,\" Brenna says. \"So I think the message is more or less there, it's just not as clear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That message to cut the red meat should have been stated more directly, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/nutrans/popkin\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Popkin\u003c/a>, a nutrition researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. \"I am disappointed that the USDA once again is cutting out recommendations to truly limit red meat intake,\" he tells us in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other major change to the government's nutrition advice: dietary cholesterol. The new guidelines drop a long-standing recommendation to limit cholesterol from foods to 300 milligrams a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.nutrition.tufts.edu/faculty/lichtenstein-alice\" target=\"_blank\">Alice Lichtenstein\u003c/a>, vice chairwoman of the the expert panel that advised the government on the guidelines, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/19/387517506/nutrition-panel-egg-with-coffee-is-a-ok-but-skip-the-side-of-bacon\" target=\"_blank\">told us\u003c/a> last February, there isn't strong evidence that limiting cholesterol-rich foods lowers the amount of artery-clogging LDL cholesterol that ends up in the blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidelines also call on Americans to cut sodium to no more than 2,300 milligrams per day. 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"content": "\u003cp>California now has one of the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/06/29/bill-ending-vaccine-exemptions-passes-california-senate-moves-to-governors-desk/\" target=\"_blank\">strictest vaccination laws\u003c/a> in the country, but ambiguity in its wording has left school districts deciding on their own whether to grant special education students a de facto exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'School districts are grappling with how they want to approach this right now.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Jonathan Read, attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health and the California Department of Education have not yet issued guidance on how to apply \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB277\" target=\"_blank\">the vaccination law \u003c/a>to special education students. Under the federal \u003ca href=\"http://idea.ed.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Individuals with Disabilities Education Act\u003c/a>, students who qualify for special education services, such as speech therapy or small-group instruction, must receive those services. Failure to comply leaves districts vulnerable to lawsuits from parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, beginning July 1, the state law will require all kindergarten, transitional kindergarten and seventh-grade students to be vaccinated against 10 communicable diseases before they are allowed to attend school, unless they have a medical condition that makes them unable to do so. Under the new law, parents can no longer refuse to vaccinate their children in public or private schools and child-care centers based on their personal beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With kindergarten enrollment beginning this month in the Sacramento City Unified School District and continuing through the spring in districts around the state, school lawyers are parsing the law on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intent of the new law is “to increase community immunity,” said Shannan Martinez, a spokeswoman for state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, who co-authored the legislation, Senate Bill 277. Pan said he acted to address rising numbers of unvaccinated children and a corresponding increase in outbreaks of diseases once considered obliterated in the U.S., including the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/04/16/disneyland-measles-outbreak-to-be-declared-over/\" target=\"_blank\">measles outbreak tied to Disneyland last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the law appears to have unwittingly created a loophole that could be used to exempt the 10 percent of students who are enrolled in special education, a number far greater than the 2.5 percent of kindergarten students who opted out of vaccinations during the 2014-2015 school year through personal belief exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We are not holding anyone to vaccination requirements that would interfere with access to special education programs.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Dr. Kimberly Uyeda, L.A. Unified School District\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Unified School District, which serves more than 640,000 K-12 students and is the largest district in the state, has decided not to require students in special education to comply with required immunizations if that requirement would prevent them from getting services, including instruction in general education classrooms, to which they are legally entitled, said Dr. Kimberly Uyeda, director of student medical services for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not holding anyone to vaccination requirements that would interfere with access to special education programs,” Uyeda said. The decision was based on advice from district legal counsel, she said. The district serves about 73,000 special education students, but only “a very small number” are not fully vaccinated, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The broadest way the law can be interpreted is that special education students get access to everything, regardless of immunization status,” said Jennifer Nix, an attorney with School and College Legal Services of California. In terms of the risk of lawsuits from special education parents, “it is the safest route, but I don’t know if it’s the right route,” Nix said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the immunization law specifically exempts students who are home-schooled or who are enrolled in independent study with no classroom attendance, it does not use the word “exempt” to describe the status of students in special education. Instead, the law states that it does not “prohibit” special education students from access to services. Special education students wouldn’t necessarily be attending school, Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike students who are home-schooled or studying independently outside of classrooms, students who receive special education services -– they number one in 10 students in California, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/handouts/education/2015/Overview-of-Special-Education-in-California050715.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a 2015 report from the Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a> -– are in school buildings and almost always spend time in general education classrooms, physical education classes or cafeterias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"IJg8DasAtRTB1SNDndbXhRlaoqNX6euf\"]Jonathan Read, who specializes in special education law at the San Diego firm Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost, said that in the absence of guidance from the state, the immunization law is being interpreted in two ways. The first is that special education students are required by federal law to be educated in the least restrictive environment, which often means spending time in general education classrooms, and that right cannot be limited by a state law requiring them to be vaccinated to obtain access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second interpretation is that immunizations are a health and safety concern. While districts are obligated to make inclusive special education environments available, according to this line of reasoning, Read said, it is up to parents to decide whether they want their child to have access to those environments by having their child vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“School districts are grappling with how they want to approach this right now,” Read said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are going to be some conflicts,” said Maggie Roberts, associate managing attorney at Disability Rights California, the state’s watchdog group. “School districts will feel they have the right to keep out kids” who are not immunized, she said, while parents will press schools to fulfill their obligation to provide special education services, even if their children are not vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/09/24/orange-county-says-special-ed-students-must-also-comply-with-vaccination-law/\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County has made the strongest public statement\u003c/a>, insisting that special education students be vaccinated along with all other students on campus, except those with medical exemptions. “If you exempt all special education kids, you’re going to decrease the vaccination rate by 11 or 12 percent,” said Ronald Wenkart, general counsel for the Orange County Office of Education. “I don’t see how you can interpret the law that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenkart has advised school districts in the county that special education students must be vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other districts are planning for scenarios that could include providing special education services at home for unvaccinated students or meeting with the students in separate facilities at or near school grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Sacramento City Unified School District, Terri Fox, lead district nurse, said one plan could be to refuse to admit an unvaccinated special education student who requires only an hour or two a week of speech therapy, for instance, and instead provide services to the student offsite. The student would be home-schooled for the remainder of his or her instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unvaccinated students who require extensive academic, behavioral and therapeutic assistance all day in a special education classroom “will probably have to be admitted,” Fox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Long Beach Unified School District, Joyce Cox, program specialist for student health services, said a formal policy has not been adopted. But one idea might be to offer temporary home instruction for students in special education, she said. “That is a way you could still deliver services to the child, and still comply with the state law -- but that decision has not been made,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gail Williams, director of health services at Fresno Unified, said she will meet with parents of special education students to encourage them to vaccinate their children. 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Unified School District\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Unified School District, which serves more than 640,000 K-12 students and is the largest district in the state, has decided not to require students in special education to comply with required immunizations if that requirement would prevent them from getting services, including instruction in general education classrooms, to which they are legally entitled, said Dr. Kimberly Uyeda, director of student medical services for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not holding anyone to vaccination requirements that would interfere with access to special education programs,” Uyeda said. The decision was based on advice from district legal counsel, she said. 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A new California law, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB675\" target=\"_blank\">SB 675\u003c/a>, requires hospital staffers to involve a family caregiver during the hospitalization and discharge process, which supporters say will improve patients’ overall health and reduce their chances of readmission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, sponsored by state Sen. Carol Liu, D-La Cañada Flintridge, mandates that hospitals give patients an opportunity to identify a caregiver, notify that caregiver when the patient is to be discharged and provide information and instruction on patient’s needs and medications following the hospitalization. Hospitals still must follow privacy laws and aren’t required to release information if the patient doesn’t give consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is among 18 states to pass such laws over the past two years, including Arkansas, New Hampshire, Oregon and Virginia. It’s part of a growing awareness among policymakers and legislators that family caregivers play an important role during and after a relative’s hospitalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How hospitals communicate with caregivers is expected to become more important as the population ages and the number of unpaid family caregivers continues to increase. An estimated 40 million Americans have cared for a relative in the past year, according to a 2015 study by the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes are largely being driven by AARP, which is leading a campaign to reduce barriers for family caregivers. The impetus comes from the organization’s 2012 survey, which found that 46 percent of caregivers perform medical tasks, such as giving injections, most without any training or guidance from medical professionals. 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Diane is also a caregiver for her sister-in-law who has had two major operations in the last year. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elaine Ryan, AARP’s vice president of state advocacy and strategy, said the legislation is designed to improve caregivers’ competency and give them peace of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A piece of paper can’t really educate people how to fill a syringe or clean a PICC line,” Ryan said, referring to a catheter inserted into a vein in a patient’s arm. The laws “make sure that family caregivers have all the information they need to safely care for their loved one at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matsushima said she has struggled to get that sort of information since 2009, when her husband had a stroke and she became a caregiver. 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At the same time, hospitals face increased pressure from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to keep patients from being readmitted, and some recognize that improving communication with family caregivers can’t hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New Jersey, where a similar law passed last year, the state’s hospital association had some reservations but made a political decision to work with AARP to tailor their model legislation to the state, said Neil Eicher, vice president of government relations for the association. 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The impetus comes from the organization’s 2012 survey, which found that 46 percent of caregivers perform medical tasks, such as giving injections, most without any training or guidance from medical professionals. AARP crafted model legislation known as the Caregiver Advise, Record, Enable, or CARE Act, and is promoting it around the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132363\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-132363 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/Matsushima-3-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Diana and Yoshi Matsushima at their home in Glendale. Diane is also a caregiver for her sister who has had two major operations in the last few years.\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana and Yoshi Matsushima at their home in Glendale. 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During one hospital visit, she had to demand that nurses instruct her how to remove her husband’s catheter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, she has also helped her sister-in-law through two surgeries and two lengthy hospital stays. The first time her sister-in-law was discharged, Matsushima said she got very little notice or guidance. Two days later, her sister-in-law fell while getting out of bed and ended up back in the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matsushima said she feels “fed up with hospitals” and hopes the new law will make things better for her and other caregivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the country, however, some hospital associations say their members already include caregivers in the discharge planning process and that adding specific requirements only adds more work. 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That meant making changes, including stripping out time requirements for notifying caregivers of discharge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand the importance of having good discharge planning,” he said. “We just didn’t want our hands tied to those time frames.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oklahoma also passed a caregiver law last year, and Sandra Harrison of the state’s hospital association said some members find it challenging to implement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve now got a requirement to educate the caregiver,” she said. “But not everybody has a caregiver … And not all caregivers want to learn or carry out the instructions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, hospital staff members often make incorrect assumptions about who the caregivers are or how much they know, said Donna Benton, associate research professor of gerontology at University of Southern California. 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There is no firm date for the law to go into effect because it was passed as part of an ongoing special legislative session that was called by the governor to address health care financing. It won't take effect until 90 days after the session ends. California became the fifth state to allow the practice, along with Oregon, Washington, Montana and Vermont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Medi-Cal for Undocumented Children\u003c/strong>: California became\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/06/17/california-budget-includes-health-coverage-of-undocumented-children-a-first-nationally/\" target=\"_blank\"> the first state in the country\u003c/a> to extend state-subsidized health coverage to children who are living in the United States illegally. An estimated 170,000 children under age 19 will become eligible for Medi-Cal, the state's health insurance problem for people who are low income, when \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB4\" target=\"_blank\">the law\u003c/a> goes into effect on May 1. (Legislators are expected to consider \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB10\" target=\"_blank\">SB10,\u003c/a> which would extend Medi-Cal to adults, in 2016 as well.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reproductive Services Notification\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB775\" target=\"_blank\">The new law\u003c/a> covers required notifications at two types of facilities. Unlicensed facilities now will be required to notify clients that they are not licensed as medical facilities by the state. Meanwhile, licensed medical facilities are required to notify clients that California has public programs that provide free or low-cost access to contraceptives, prenatal care and abortion services. The law was\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/04/california-law-adds-new-twist-to-abortion-religious-freedom-debate\" target=\"_blank\"> challenged by centers \u003c/a>that do not provide abortions. Just before Christmas, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article51197235.html\" target=\"_blank\">a federal judge upheld the law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Translation of Prescription Drug Information\u003c/strong>: Pharmacists are now required, upon request, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/09/10/calif-legislature-approves-bill-requiring-prescription-labels-in-5-foreign-languages/\" target=\"_blank\">to provide labels or medication information \u003c/a>in the five most common languages in California, after English: Spanish, Tagalog, Chinese, Vietnamese or Korean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hospitals and Caregivers\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB675\" target=\"_blank\">AB675\u003c/a> requires hospitals to include family caregivers in the hospitalization and discharge process. \u003ca href=\"http://newamericamedia.org/2015/12/california-latest-state-requiring-hospitals-to-keep-caregivers-in-the-loop.php\" target=\"_blank\">The goal \u003c/a>is to improve a patient's care and reduce the chance of readmission. 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