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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco has unveiled a tough anti-tobacco proposal that would ban the retail sale of menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco or tobacco-related products that are often the first choice of minority group members and teenagers who smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Malia Cohen, sponsor of the proposed ordinance, joined Tuesday with public health experts and community advocates to announce the measure, which she said goes beyond more narrow laws on flavored tobacco in cities such as Chicago, Berkeley and New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The legislation I’ve authored is a full restriction on the sale of all flavored tobacco products, and that does include menthol. There are no exemptions,” Cohen said. This includes cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed ordinance is designed to address two major groups, youth and minorities, who have been targeted in successful, well-financed advertising campaigns that promote menthol cigarettes and flavored non-cigarette tobacco products. The products often attract African-Americans, Asian-Americans and Latinos, as well as teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee endorsed the proposal. “We know from research and studies that tobacco-related diseases continue to be the No. 1 cause of preventable deaths, especially among low-income and minority communities,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar measure is being considered in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen, who represents the predominantly African-American Bayview-Hunters Point district of San Francisco, said the ordinance grew out of her personal experience with family members who smoked menthol cigarettes and died of cancer, and her desire to spare San Franciscans a similar fate. “This is an evidence-based tobacco prevention strategy that will save lives and cut costs for taxpayers who are collectively shouldering the health care costs of tobacco-related illnesses,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 9 out of 10 African-Americans who smoke prefer menthol cigarettes, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Menthol is believed to make the harmful chemicals contained in cigarettes more easily absorbed by the body, and some research shows that menthol cigarettes are more addictive than regular ones, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“African-Americans don’t have a genetic disposition that makes them smoke menthol cigarettes,” said Dr. Valerie Yerger, an associate professor of health policy at the University of California, San Francisco. “It’s the result of a very conscious advertising campaign by the tobacco industry.” Menthol cigarettes are also preferred by a majority of Latinos and Asian-Americans who smoke, according to Randy Uang, director of tobacco prevention and control services at Breathe California, a Golden Gate Public Health Partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health experts say restricting menthol and other flavored tobacco would improve health outcomes not only for the minority populations but also for teens. “Because flavors play such a key role in youth starting to smoke, restricting access to these products means that fewer youth will start smoking,” said Uang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flavors are popular with inexperienced smokers, he said, because they mask the taste of tobacco and decrease the irritating effects of nicotine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E-cigarettes are now the tobacco-related product most commonly used by young people in the U.S., according to the CDC. It found that more than 8 out of 10 youths ages 12-17 who vape said they use flavored e-cigarettes that taste like mint, candy or other sweets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco ordinance, if approved, would fill a gap in federal legislation that authorized the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco. In 2009, the FDA banned “characterizing flavors,” such as candy, fruit and chocolate in cigarettes. But, faced with tobacco industry lobbying, it stopped short of prohibiting menthol in cigarettes or flavorings in other tobacco-related products such as e-cigarettes, little cigars and smokeless tobacco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobacco control advocates, such as Yerger, have been pushing the FDA to ban menthol and other flavorings for years. “This ordinance didn’t happen overnight,” she said. “It’s been a very long process and part of that has been gathering evidence about the role of menthol in hooking kids at a very early age and the tobacco industry knowing that it has the ability to do that by manipulating the levels of menthol in their products.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen noted the tobacco lobby is strong in Sacramento and she’s expecting pushback from the industry. “I would imagine they will be fighting this legislation every step of the way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If enacted, the tobacco ordinance would become effective Jan. 1, 2018. Enforcement would be the job of the Department of Public Health, which also would be responsible for educating retailers about the new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California lawmakers are considering several bills to improve and expand access to Denti-Cal, the state’s troubled dental program for low-income people — including ones that would draw from the state’s new tobacco tax to boost dentists’ pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Bill 753, introduced by Assemblywoman Anna Caballero (D-Salinas), would direct money from the state’s new tobacco tax to broaden access to Denti-Cal, which for years has been faulted in state and federal reports. The bill will be heard in the Assembly Committee on Health on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2014 California state auditor’s report showed that fewer than half of the children eligible for Denti-Cal benefits actually saw a dentist in the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say access to care suffers because Denti-Cal payments to dentists are so low that many can’t afford to participate in the program. The auditor’s report also found that Denti-Cal payments for the most common procedures averaged $21.60, about 35 percent of the national average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the next fiscal year, Caballero’s bill would earmark $300 million of the almost $1.2 billion expected in new Medi-Cal funding from the state’s tobacco tax revenues. In future years, the bill would require at least 15 percent of those revenues to be spent on Denti-Cal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the money would go toward boosting payments to dentists who provide preventive services to adults, such as regular teeth cleanings. A program known as the Dental Transformation Initiative, funded by both state and federal dollars, offers extra money to dentists for children’s preventive services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caballero said she believes California voters who approved the tobacco tax last year wanted the money to be used to improve underfunded programs like Denti-Cal. “We want to make sure that this intent is kept alive,” Caballero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caballero represents a largely rural district that includes the Salinas Valley, San Benito County and Watsonville. She said there are not enough dentists overall in the region, let alone ones who can afford to see Denti-Cal patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. John Blake runs the Children’s Dental Health Clinic in Long Beach, where 85 percent of the patients are on Denti-Cal. Blake said Caballero’s legislation is a good start, although it probably is not enough to draw more dentists into the program, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative would help fill gaps in preventive care, he said, but adults may have serious dental disease and dentists would find themselves in a difficult position if they detected it during basic cleaning and screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The adult population is a different beast from a treatment standpoint,” Blake said. “We’ve done all this cleaning, but now we need root canals and extractions…how do we cover this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caballero’s bill would also require that some of the tobacco tax money be used to increase payments to dentists for the 20 most common dental procedures for children, such as X-rays and fillings. This would supplement and expand efforts by the Dental Transformation Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another bill, AB 15, introduced by Republicans late last year, would require that Denti-Cal rates be doubled for the 15 most common prevention and treatment services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blake said most dentists ask only that Denti-Cal payments match the national median rate, and that’s not taking into account that California tends to have higher living and business costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using tobacco tax money to improve Denti-Cal makes sense, Blake said. That was the intent of the proposition to better Medi-Cal, including its dental program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d certainly like to see that honored,” Blake said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 15 cleared the Assembly Health Committee last month and next will be heard by the Assembly’s Committee on Appropriations. A hearing date has not yet been set.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As the nation’s Republican leaders huddle to reconsider their plans to “repeal and replace” the nation’s health law, advocates for universal health coverage press on in California, armed with renewed political will and a new set of proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organized labor and two lawmakers are leading the charge for a single, government-financed program for everyone in the state. Another legislator wants to create a commission that would weigh the best options for a system to cover everyone. And Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who hopes to become the next governor, has suggested building on employer-based health care to plug holes in existing coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposals are fueled both by a fear of losing gains under the Affordable Care Act and a sense that the law doesn’t go far enough toward covering everyone and cutting costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But heath policy experts say that creating any type of universal health plan would face enormous political and fiscal challenges — and that if it happens at all, it could take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are different ways to get there,” says Jonathan Oberlander, professor of social medicine and health policy at the University of North Carolina. “None of them is easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most specific California proposal comes from state Sens. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) and Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), co-authors of legislation that would take steps toward creating one publicly financed “single-payer” program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB562\" target=\"_blank\">bill\u003c/a>, co-sponsored by the California Nurses Association, would aim for something like a system of “Medicare for all” in which the government, not insurers, provides payments and sets coverage rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the right moral thing to do,\" Lara says. \"We live in the United States of America. We live in the most powerful state in the union. It is the right thing for us to make sure that we fight to ensure that everyone has coverage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara’s bill contains a long \u003ca href=\"http://sd33.senate.ca.gov/news/2017-02-17-californians-healthy-california-act-seeks-one-plan-more-choice-residents\" target=\"_blank\">list of benefits \u003c/a>the statewide program would cover. Not just doctors and hospitals, but also prescriptions, vision and dental care, hospice and rehabilitative therapies, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Health and Human Services Secretary, \u003ca href=\"http://www.chhs.ca.gov/Pages/Secretary-Diana-S.-Dooley.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Diana Dooley\u003c/a>, understands the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think in California there continues to be a great deal of interest and enthusiasm around single payer,\" she says. \"It is very easy to talk about and it certainly takes advantage of the anxiety people have about health insurance companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara’s plan does away with premiums, deductibles, co-pays — all those pesky out-of-pocket expenses. So where would the state get the money? Past proposals – here and in states like Vermont and Colorado – have suggested new payroll taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that single payer will be expensive,\" says Assemblyman Jim Wood, chairman of the Health Committee. \"Some estimates from a few years ago, the analysis showed $200 billion plus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe in universal coverage and I’d love to see that happen in the future, but the devils in the details,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/317282377\" 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>\u003ca href=\"http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-population/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\">Roughly half of coverage\u003c/a> in California is sponsored by employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If “you’re going to take health insurance largely out of the market, you’re going to disconnect it from employers,” Oberlander says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, premiums paid by both employer and employee fund private health insurance plans. Single-payer would change that: instead of paycheck deductions for premiums, workers would see new taxes on their wages to pay for the state plan. It would be controversial and disruptive, Oberlander says. \"A lot of people are satisfied with what they have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lara thinks it can be done, slowly and methodically. He is traveling this week in Canada, along with Bay-Area state senators Nancy Skinner and Scott Wiener. They’ll be learning about Canadian medical care and how it’s financed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara takes heart from the fact that Canada’s system began in just one province, and then spread to others. It did so despite resistance, over many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We envision California being the first state to implement a universal healthcare program, and then having that then be the model for the rest of the other states.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara says everyone should withhold judgment until he can provide more detailed funding plans in a month or two. His goal is to get the bill at least through the Senate this year, and then push it farther forward in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trade group for insurers in California does not support the single-payer idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A single-payer system would make the quality of our health care worse, not better,” says Charles Bacchi, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhealthplans.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Association of Health Plans\u003c/a>. “We’ve made substantial progress in expanding and increasing access to and quality of care — this step backwards would be particularly devastating for Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many conservatives oppose the single-payer approach. “We have come to value and expect a health care system that has private-sector market elements,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.hoover.org/profiles/lanhee-j-chen\" target=\"_blank\">Lanhee Chen,\u003c/a> a fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chief policy adviser to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A single-payer system would need federal approval, essentially giving California permission to take the money meant for Medicare and Medicaid, and distribute those funds in a totally new way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m not sure under what construct that could even occur,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Pages/DirectorsBiography.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Kent\u003c/a>, director of the Department of Health Care Services, which operates the state’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The federal government would have to essentially turn those funds over to a state,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands, \u003ca href=\"http://californiahealthline.org/news/single-payer-health-care-bill-to-be-introduced-in-california-senate/\">no state has a single-payer system\u003c/a>. Perhaps the best-known effort to create one was in Vermont, but it failed in 2014 after officials there couldn’t figure out how to finance it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Single-payer proposals have been put forth many times in the California Legislature since 2003, and all have hit roadblocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bill, carried by former state senator Sheila Kuehl several years ago and passed by the state Legislature, would have created a payroll tax to help fund a program \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/2008/hlth/sb840/SB840_analysis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">costing \u003c/a> $200 billion a year or more. That measure and a similar bill were vetoed by then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who cited financial concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuehl, now a Los Angeles County supervisor, said the time is as good as ever to reintroduce a proposal like single-payer because many people fear losing coverage under Republican proposals being discussed in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ACA created more familiarity with being insured,” said Kuehl. “They’ve recognized the value.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other observers say attempts to expand access should not undermine efforts to preserve insurance gains under Obamacare. The threat to Medicaid or private insurance access is still real, they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California should explore all options, [but] we should not do that if it means withdrawing support for protecting the ACA,” said Jerry Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. “It would take decades to get back to where we are now,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with California Healthline, California Gov. Jerry Brown emphasized that financing a single-payer system would be a major challenge. Although he said he would entertain a conversation about a single-payer system, he did not say whether he would endorse creating one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, it would require a new tax, which would have to be approved either by a two-thirds majority vote in the state Legislature or a simple-majority popular vote, he said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As the nation’s Republican leaders huddle to reconsider their plans to “repeal and replace” the nation’s health law, advocates for universal health coverage press on in California, armed with renewed political will and a new set of proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organized labor and two lawmakers are leading the charge for a single, government-financed program for everyone in the state. Another legislator wants to create a commission that would weigh the best options for a system to cover everyone. And Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who hopes to become the next governor, has suggested building on employer-based health care to plug holes in existing coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposals are fueled both by a fear of losing gains under the Affordable Care Act and a sense that the law doesn’t go far enough toward covering everyone and cutting costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But heath policy experts say that creating any type of universal health plan would face enormous political and fiscal challenges — and that if it happens at all, it could take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are different ways to get there,” says Jonathan Oberlander, professor of social medicine and health policy at the University of North Carolina. “None of them is easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most specific California proposal comes from state Sens. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) and Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), co-authors of legislation that would take steps toward creating one publicly financed “single-payer” program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB562\" target=\"_blank\">bill\u003c/a>, co-sponsored by the California Nurses Association, would aim for something like a system of “Medicare for all” in which the government, not insurers, provides payments and sets coverage rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the right moral thing to do,\" Lara says. \"We live in the United States of America. We live in the most powerful state in the union. It is the right thing for us to make sure that we fight to ensure that everyone has coverage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara’s bill contains a long \u003ca href=\"http://sd33.senate.ca.gov/news/2017-02-17-californians-healthy-california-act-seeks-one-plan-more-choice-residents\" target=\"_blank\">list of benefits \u003c/a>the statewide program would cover. Not just doctors and hospitals, but also prescriptions, vision and dental care, hospice and rehabilitative therapies, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Health and Human Services Secretary, \u003ca href=\"http://www.chhs.ca.gov/Pages/Secretary-Diana-S.-Dooley.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Diana Dooley\u003c/a>, understands the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think in California there continues to be a great deal of interest and enthusiasm around single payer,\" she says. \"It is very easy to talk about and it certainly takes advantage of the anxiety people have about health insurance companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara’s plan does away with premiums, deductibles, co-pays — all those pesky out-of-pocket expenses. So where would the state get the money? Past proposals – here and in states like Vermont and Colorado – have suggested new payroll taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that single payer will be expensive,\" says Assemblyman Jim Wood, chairman of the Health Committee. \"Some estimates from a few years ago, the analysis showed $200 billion plus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe in universal coverage and I’d love to see that happen in the future, but the devils in the details,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/317282377&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/317282377'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-population/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\">Roughly half of coverage\u003c/a> in California is sponsored by employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If “you’re going to take health insurance largely out of the market, you’re going to disconnect it from employers,” Oberlander says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, premiums paid by both employer and employee fund private health insurance plans. Single-payer would change that: instead of paycheck deductions for premiums, workers would see new taxes on their wages to pay for the state plan. It would be controversial and disruptive, Oberlander says. \"A lot of people are satisfied with what they have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lara thinks it can be done, slowly and methodically. He is traveling this week in Canada, along with Bay-Area state senators Nancy Skinner and Scott Wiener. They’ll be learning about Canadian medical care and how it’s financed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara takes heart from the fact that Canada’s system began in just one province, and then spread to others. It did so despite resistance, over many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We envision California being the first state to implement a universal healthcare program, and then having that then be the model for the rest of the other states.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara says everyone should withhold judgment until he can provide more detailed funding plans in a month or two. His goal is to get the bill at least through the Senate this year, and then push it farther forward in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trade group for insurers in California does not support the single-payer idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A single-payer system would make the quality of our health care worse, not better,” says Charles Bacchi, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhealthplans.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Association of Health Plans\u003c/a>. “We’ve made substantial progress in expanding and increasing access to and quality of care — this step backwards would be particularly devastating for Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many conservatives oppose the single-payer approach. “We have come to value and expect a health care system that has private-sector market elements,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.hoover.org/profiles/lanhee-j-chen\" target=\"_blank\">Lanhee Chen,\u003c/a> a fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chief policy adviser to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A single-payer system would need federal approval, essentially giving California permission to take the money meant for Medicare and Medicaid, and distribute those funds in a totally new way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m not sure under what construct that could even occur,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Pages/DirectorsBiography.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Kent\u003c/a>, director of the Department of Health Care Services, which operates the state’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The federal government would have to essentially turn those funds over to a state,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands, \u003ca href=\"http://californiahealthline.org/news/single-payer-health-care-bill-to-be-introduced-in-california-senate/\">no state has a single-payer system\u003c/a>. Perhaps the best-known effort to create one was in Vermont, but it failed in 2014 after officials there couldn’t figure out how to finance it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Single-payer proposals have been put forth many times in the California Legislature since 2003, and all have hit roadblocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bill, carried by former state senator Sheila Kuehl several years ago and passed by the state Legislature, would have created a payroll tax to help fund a program \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/2008/hlth/sb840/SB840_analysis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">costing \u003c/a> $200 billion a year or more. That measure and a similar bill were vetoed by then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who cited financial concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuehl, now a Los Angeles County supervisor, said the time is as good as ever to reintroduce a proposal like single-payer because many people fear losing coverage under Republican proposals being discussed in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ACA created more familiarity with being insured,” said Kuehl. “They’ve recognized the value.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other observers say attempts to expand access should not undermine efforts to preserve insurance gains under Obamacare. 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"content": "\u003cp>Two anti-abortion rights activists who covertly recorded themselves discussing fetal tissue with Planned Parenthood staff are facing felony charges in California, for allegedly violating state law by filming people without their permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the charges against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt on Tuesday, saying the state \"will not tolerate the criminal recording of confidential conversations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Daleiden called the charges \"bogus\" and reiterated claims that Planned Parenthood has violated the law by selling fetal tissue — an allegation that has been investigated by more than a dozen states, none of which found evidence supporting Daleiden's claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood, meanwhile, says it has \"has done nothing wrong, and the only people who broke the law are those behind the fraudulent tapes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may remember that in 2015, Daleiden's organization released a video of a Planned Parenthood official discussing how the organization provides fetal tissue to researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daleiden claimed the video showed evidence that Planned Parenthood was selling that tissue, which would be illegal. Planned Parenthood said the footage was misleadingly edited and that the organization donates tissue following legal guidelines and with permitted reimbursements for expenses, which investigations have corroborated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, a grand jury in Texas was examining Daleiden's allegations. The grand jury determined there was no sign of criminal wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, in a surprise twist, it indicted Daleiden and Merritt on felony charges of using fake drivers licenses to gain access to a Planned Parenthood meeting. They also indicted Daleiden on misdemeanor charges of trying to buy human tissue — the kind of misconduct he was trying to pin on Planned Parenthood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those charges were dismissed: the misdemeanor on technical grounds, and the felonies after lawyers argued the grand jury didn't have the authority to bring charges so different from their original mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new charges filed in California are different felony charges, tied to the act of recording. The state says it reviewed thousands of video files to try to identify the people Merritt and Daleiden are accused of recording without consent. They found 14 such people recorded in California in 2014 and 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The state of California has not named the people it identified. In 2015 Daleiden told NPR that he spent three years planning his sting video operation, recording hours of conversation with \"top-level Planned Parenthood executives, and doctors,\" among other people. )\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two activists each face 15 charges — one for each person they are accused of recording without permission, and one for conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, you generally need the consent of everyone involved in order to legally record a private conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's more context from The Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\n\"In April of last year, Daleiden said in a Facebook post that California Department of Justice agents raided his home, seizing all of his video footage along with personal information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since then the case had gone largely quiet, with virtually no revelations about the investigation and no indication that the charges were coming before they were filed Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The case is one of the first of high-profile prosecutions for Becerra, who left the U.S. House to take over for Kamala Harris after she became a U.S. Senator.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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