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"content": "\u003cp>The president of the Medical Board of California is facing questions from critics about a business deal he struck after the board decided to reinstate the license of a doctor who engaged in sexual misconduct with patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Dr. Dev GnanaDev, new to the board and not yet president, was part of a disciplinary panel that voted to \u003ca href=\"http://www2.mbc.ca.gov/BreezePDL/document.aspx?path=%5cDIDOCS%5c20160824%5cDMRAAAFC5%5c&did=AAAFC160824220345223.DID&licenseType=A&licenseNumber=56371#page=1\">reinstate Dr. Hari Reddy\u003c/a>. The Victorville family physician had lost his license in 2003 after the board found he had engaged in sexual misconduct with four female patients, including a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a year after the 2012 vote, GnanaDev sought a donation from one of Reddy’s relatives to start a new medical school in California’s Inland Empire, GnanaDev confirmed. Dr. Prem Reddy, Reddy’s brother-in-law, agreed to \u003ca href=\"http://www.premreddyfamilyfoundation.org/Press-Center/Recent-News/2014/Dr-Reddy-Puts-40-Million-Into-Nonprofit-Medical-.aspx\">put $40 million into the nonprofit venture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prem Reddy is founder and CEO of Prime Healthcare, which operates \u003ca href=\"http://www.primehealthcare.com/\">44 hospitals in 14 states\u003c/a>, including the medical center where Hari Reddy now works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new medical school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.calmedu.org/\">California University of Science and Medicine\u003c/a>, is scheduled to open in 2018. GnanaDev is the president; Prem Reddy, chairman of the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GnanaDev declined to say how he voted in Hari Reddy’s case, citing board policy. The medical board said the vote tally and how each board member voted is not public information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sequence of events has led a pair of vocal board critics, Marian Hollingsworth and Eric Andrist, to question whether there was a relationship between GnanaDev’s vote and the subsequent medical school donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollingsworth and Andrist called for an investigation Monday at legislative oversight hearing to review the performance of the medical board. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1evuYpLqWGnWFKmTy3nk4DjP8CF9H1w9IOneyW88bpok/edit\">In a report\u003c/a> they submitted to legislators, which was broadly critical of the board, they detailed the Hari Reddy case and demanded the board be transparent about the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This smacks of conflict of interest,“ Hollingsworth told the Joint Sunset Review Oversight Hearing, which is held every four years. “Please help reorganize this agency so that exceptions and conflicts do not get in the way of protecting California consumers from truly dangerous doctors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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It’s just mind-boggling,” GnanaDev said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of the 2012 vote on Hari Reddy’s license, GnanaDev said he wasn’t even considering starting a medical school yet and knew Prem Reddy only in passing. He did know Hari Reddy, because Reddy had been a resident at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in San Bernardino County, where GnanaDev was chief of surgery. But he said he followed protocol and disclosed that to the board before the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GnanaDev said that when he later decided to start the school, it was out of a desire to contribute to an underserved community. He filed paperwork to incorporate the school in August 2012. He asked several wealthy donors for funding but came up short. “Then someone mentioned that Prem Reddy was thinking of starting a medical school, and why don’t you guys get together?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GnanaDev said he approached Reddy for a donation in the spring of 2013. During his meetings with Prem Reddy, GnanaDev said the subject of Hari Reddy’s medical license never came up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Nikels, a spokeswoman for Prime Healthcare and Prem Reddy, said any implication that the medical school had anything to do with Hari Reddy’s medical license was “outrageous.” She added that Prem Reddy was not aware of GnanaDev’s role on the medical board until discussions for the medical school were well underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dr. Reddy’s selfless commitment to education and health care is the only reason for his sizable endowment to establish the medical school in San Bernardino County,” she said. “Any suggestions to the contrary are completely untrue and unfounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hari Reddy did not respond to multiple requests for comment by telephone and email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hari Reddy has long worked for facilities run by his brother-in law’s company. At the time the sexual misconduct took place, he was working at the Desert Valley Medical Group, a Prime Healthcare facility. After his license was revoked, he worked for Desert Valley Medical Group as a clerk and in other jobs that did not involve patient care, according to the medical board. And he is currently a hospitalist, a doctor who cares for hospitalized patients, at Desert Valley Hospital. (Hari Reddy is married to Prem Reddy’s sister; the couple happens to have same surname.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against Hari Reddy is detailed in board documents. 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After seeking unsuccessfully to have it reinstated in 2008, Reddy asked again three years later. This time, \u003ca href=\"http://www2.mbc.ca.gov/BreezePDL/document.aspx?path=%5cDIDOCS%5c20160824%5cDMRAAAFC5%5c&did=AAAFC160824220345223.DID&licenseType=A&licenseNumber=56371#page=1\">an administrative law judge concluded\u003c/a> that it was safe for him to practice, provided he be closely supervised for three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2012, the case came before the medical board’s five-member disciplinary panel, which makes final decisions on behalf of the board. It was GnanaDev’s first time on the panel, as he had just been appointed to the board by Gov. Jerry Brown. The panel voted to reinstate Hari Reddy’s license, and increased the time of his administrative probation to seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the board would not say how GnanaDev voted, he did not recuse himself. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GnanaDev declined to say how he voted in Hari Reddy’s case, citing board policy. The medical board said the vote tally and how each board member voted is not public information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sequence of events has led a pair of vocal board critics, Marian Hollingsworth and Eric Andrist, to question whether there was a relationship between GnanaDev’s vote and the subsequent medical school donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollingsworth and Andrist called for an investigation Monday at legislative oversight hearing to review the performance of the medical board. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1evuYpLqWGnWFKmTy3nk4DjP8CF9H1w9IOneyW88bpok/edit\">In a report\u003c/a> they submitted to legislators, which was broadly critical of the board, they detailed the Hari Reddy case and demanded the board be transparent about the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This smacks of conflict of interest,“ Hollingsworth told the Joint Sunset Review Oversight Hearing, which is held every four years. “Please help reorganize this agency so that exceptions and conflicts do not get in the way of protecting California consumers from truly dangerous doctors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2017/02/16/broad-institute-wins-decision-over-uc-berkeley-in-crispr-patent-battle/\" target=\"_blank\">Last week\u003c/a> the feds may have dashed \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley's\u003c/a> billion-dollar dreams when it decided not to give the university patent rights over CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary gene-editing technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Feb. 15 ruling from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office let Berkeley's rival--the \u003ca href=\"https://www.broadinstitute.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Broad Institute\u003c/a> jointly owned by Harvard and MIT--keep its existing patents issued in 2014. UC Berkeley has yet to say whether or not it will appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"6PeUNVfkMeIqGUVoQhOEw9qi7r38vVhJ\"] Berkeley was seeking to have some of those patents repealed because the university says they conflict with its pending patent application for CRISPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judges reasoned that Berkeley's patent request doesn't affect Broad's existing patents because the two are based on different gene editing techniques.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley's patent request is for editing genes in bacteria, whereas Broad's existing patents are for editing genes in eukaryotic cells, i.e. cells found in plants and animals, including humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Berkeley argues that its research tool can easily be extended to use in non-bacterial cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That distinction is key since potentially lucrative applications of gene editing in medicine and health will involve eukaryotic cells found in humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley biologist Jennifer Doudna, who is credited with co-inventing CRISPR-Cas9 now has two options:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1) Appeal to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2) Go back to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uspto.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Patent and Trademark Office\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Berkeley appeals, the court could overrule the patent office decision in favor of Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Berkeley loses, it could go back to the patent office, where it could be required to narrow its claims, i.e., specifying that its technique is only intended to be used in bacteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or it could get a broad patent that still doesn't specify how to use CRISPR in eukaryotic cells. But according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nyls.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/faculty_profiles/jacob-s-sherkow/\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Sherkow\u003c/a>, a law professor at \u003ca href=\"http://www.nyls.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Law School\u003c/a>, that could lead to future legal challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not going to be that strong because anyone who wants to challenge it later can say, 'that patent doesn't disclose how to use the tool in eukaryotic cells,'\" says Sherkow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the money is in altering those specific cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what's next? Only Berkeley knows; the university has said it will \"\u003ca href=\"http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/02/15/berkeley-statement-regarding-patent-boards-decision-on-crispr-cas9-gene-editing-technology/\" target=\"_blank\">carefully consider all options\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Science journalists are abuzz about what this means for biotech. Here's a sampling of what they're saying:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Berkeley + Broad = Virtual Monopoly on CRISPR-Cas9\u003c/strong> (\u003ca href=\"http://gizmodo.com/should-anyone-really-control-who-gets-to-use-crispr-1792659635\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmodo\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Why does this matter? While academic researchers can still use CRISPR for free, companies hoping to harness the gene editing tool to fight disease, solve agricultural problems, or for myriad other potential applications, may have to pay not one, but both institutions, a hefty fee. It’s a decision that has caused some to wonder whether the rights to such revolutionary technology don’t really belong to a third party: the people.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Could the Case Encourage Scientists to Be Less Honest?\u003c/strong> (\u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/16/crispr-patent-decision-six-takeaways/\" target=\"_blank\">STAT\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The patent judges concluded that “the inventors themselves were uncertain” about making CRISPR work in human cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could send a terrible message to scientists, said \u003ca href=\"https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/2783639\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Robert Cook-Deegan\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.asu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona State University\u003c/a>, an expert on legal and ethical issues surrounding biotechnology. “I hope this does not become the poster child that patent offices use to coach scientists not to be honest about uncertainties about their discoveries,” he said. “The fact that Doudna’s quotes were used by the judges mainly tells me Doudna was being honest. I hope scientists will continue to be honest and not succumb to being told they can’t say things that might undermine a broad patenting strategy.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Fogettaboutit, Companies Can Sidestep Berkeley and Broad\u003c/strong> (\u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/news/why-the-crispr-patent-verdict-isn-t-the-end-of-the-story-1.21510\" target=\"_blank\">Nature\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Researchers in academia and industry have been pushing CRISPR gene editing beyond the scope of the Broad and Berkeley patents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both patent families cover the use of CRISPR–Cas9, which relies on the Cas9 enzyme to cut DNA. But there are alternatives to Cas9 that provide other functions, and a way to sidestep the Berkeley–Broad patent fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One attractive alternative is Cpf1, an enzyme that \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/news/alternative-crispr-system-could-improve-genome-editing-1.18432\" target=\"_blank\">may be simpler to use\u003c/a> and more accurate than Cas9 in some cases. The Broad has already filed patents on applications of Cpf1 in gene editing, and has licensed them to biotech company Editas Medicine in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, my friends, if UC Berkeley appeals, this whole process could last through 2020. Or longer.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Here's a sampling of what they're saying:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Berkeley + Broad = Virtual Monopoly on CRISPR-Cas9\u003c/strong> (\u003ca href=\"http://gizmodo.com/should-anyone-really-control-who-gets-to-use-crispr-1792659635\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmodo\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Why does this matter? While academic researchers can still use CRISPR for free, companies hoping to harness the gene editing tool to fight disease, solve agricultural problems, or for myriad other potential applications, may have to pay not one, but both institutions, a hefty fee. It’s a decision that has caused some to wonder whether the rights to such revolutionary technology don’t really belong to a third party: the people.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. 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"content": "\u003cp>SAN MATEO — Little surprises Lynda Sutherland, who has been a licensed vocational nurse for 35 years at San Mateo Medical Center. But in the past few years, Sutherland said, she’s been surprised by what’s missing: the patients who used to return again and again to the public hospital for the same ailments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re just not coming back,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spurred by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), medical centers like this one have overhauled the way they deliver care in an effort to keep patients healthier and out of hospital beds. They have connected newly insured patients with primary care doctors in outpatient clinics, helped them manage chronic diseases and tried to reduce their reliance on emergency rooms for routine care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans pledging to repeal Obamacare, such hospitals fear the gains they have made could be lost or diminished. In particular, they worry that if patients lose health insurance, their revenue will fall — to the detriment of the patients, the hospital staff and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be felt on a daily basis,” said Erin O’Malley, director of policy for America’s Essential Hospitals, a nationwide association of nearly 300 hospitals that serve low-income patients. “Our mission will not be changing, but the challenges will be mounting … especially if we have a ‘repeal’ without a comparable ‘replace.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Hospital Association sent a letter Feb. 8 to California’s congressional delegation on behalf of hundreds of hospitals and health systems, saying that repealing the Affordable Care Act without replacing it “would upend the financial stability of hospitals and their patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association wrote that it was particularly concerned about proposals that would reduce federal dollars for Medicaid, which was significantly expanded under the 2010 health law to include low-income childless adults. The association also expressed concern about dismantling the changes hospitals have made to promote the quality of care over the quantity. For instance, as a result of new financial penalties under Medicare, many hospitals invested in changes to ensure they weren’t readmitting patients too soon after discharge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although all hospitals would be affected if the health law were repealed, public and safety-net facilities such as San Mateo Medical Center would suffer more, said Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Affordable Care Act has certainly stabilized the financial situation of safety-net providers,” he said. “If we roll back the ACA completely and don’t have a replacement plan that specifically improves funding for safety-net providers, then those hospitals are going to become more vulnerable again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the nation, hospitals that serve the poor have raised similar concerns. A recent analysis by America’s Essential Hospitals showed that hospitals could lose more than $40 billion in funding from 2018 to 2026 if the law is repealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Over the past several years, safety-net hospitals like San Mateo Medical Center have worked to help patients better manage their chronic diseases and reduce their reliance on emergency rooms for routine care. Administrators worry if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, they will lose revenue and be unable to focus as much on prevention. (Anna Gorman/KHN)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have put forward several proposals that worry hospital administrators. Among them are Medicaid block grants, which could result in less funding for beneficiaries, and withdrawal of federal support for insurance exchanges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 72,000 patients are seen annually at the county-run San Mateo Medical Center, which includes the hospital and nine outpatient clinics. Before the health law took effect, 48 percent of patients were uninsured and 31 percent were on Medi-Cal, the state’s version of Medicaid. Now, 17 percent are uninsured and 57 percent have Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Medicaid rolls back … not only does the revenue disappear, but then people will delay care, get sicker and then costs will go up,” said Chester Kunnappilly, CEO of the medical center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital and clinics receive $166 million annually in Medi-Cal revenue — which makes up about 60 percent of the total budget. At least $50 million would be at risk with a repeal of the ACA, Kunnappilly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People will lose their jobs, and it becomes this vicious cycle,” he said. “How many people we can take care of continues to shrink because the teams get smaller.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Michael Asip enrolled in expanded Medi-Cal under the Affordable Care Act before switching to Medicare when he turned 65 last year. Now, the San Mateo resident sees a cardiologist, a primary care doctor, a psychologist and an endocrinologist through the San Mateo Medical Center. “I’m the poster boy for the safety net,” he said. (Anna Gorman/KHN)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo Medical Center made numerous changes over the past few years to catch patients before they became seriously ill. For example, it created teams of outpatient providers — including pharmacists, medical assistants and social workers — to coordinate care. It began reminding patients when they needed to get mammograms and other preventive tests. They expanded substance abuse and mental health treatment, which was required to be covered under the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the medical center sent patients with urgent needs to “express care” so they wouldn’t have to go to the emergency room or wait to see their doctor. Hospital administrators changed the discharge process, sending some patients home with the medications they needed and even dispatching staff to visit others after release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dramatic changes were made by safety-net hospitals elsewhere in response to the ACA. In Los Angeles County, for example, a computer system was developed to the ensure less duplication of care and better monitoring of patients, and patients were assigned to clinics that served as their medical “homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ACA provided the economic incentive to do what should have been done anyway,” said Mitch Katz, director of the Los Angeles County health department. “It won’t go back to the way it was done before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent day at the San Mateo Medical Center, Marla Muniz, a 46-year-old waitress from San Mateo, came to a clinic at the medical center for a physical and treatment for worsening pain in her shoulders and arm. She has Medi-Cal now, because of the program’s expansion, after going years without health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am scared they are going to take away my Medi-Cal,” she said. “If I had a good job that paid well, it wouldn’t matter. But I don’t. And I have a lot of pain. I have more and more pain every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another patient, Michael Asip, was there to see one of his physicians. He’d enrolled in expanded Medi-Cal before turning 65, then switched to Medicare. Long uninsured, he had gone months without seeing a doctor even after a heart attack. Now, the San Mateo resident sees a cardiologist, a primary care doctor, a psychologist and an endocrinologist through the medical center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sumita Kalra, a physician at a primary care clinic, said she has seen numerous patients like Muniz and Asip who put off health care for years. 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For instance, as a result of new financial penalties under Medicare, many hospitals invested in changes to ensure they weren’t readmitting patients too soon after discharge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although all hospitals would be affected if the health law were repealed, public and safety-net facilities such as San Mateo Medical Center would suffer more, said Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Affordable Care Act has certainly stabilized the financial situation of safety-net providers,” he said. “If we roll back the ACA completely and don’t have a replacement plan that specifically improves funding for safety-net providers, then those hospitals are going to become more vulnerable again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the nation, hospitals that serve the poor have raised similar concerns. A recent analysis by America’s Essential Hospitals showed that hospitals could lose more than $40 billion in funding from 2018 to 2026 if the law is repealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Over the past several years, safety-net hospitals like San Mateo Medical Center have worked to help patients better manage their chronic diseases and reduce their reliance on emergency rooms for routine care. Administrators worry if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, they will lose revenue and be unable to focus as much on prevention. (Anna Gorman/KHN)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have put forward several proposals that worry hospital administrators. Among them are Medicaid block grants, which could result in less funding for beneficiaries, and withdrawal of federal support for insurance exchanges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 72,000 patients are seen annually at the county-run San Mateo Medical Center, which includes the hospital and nine outpatient clinics. 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She has Medi-Cal now, because of the program’s expansion, after going years without health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am scared they are going to take away my Medi-Cal,” she said. “If I had a good job that paid well, it wouldn’t matter. But I don’t. And I have a lot of pain. I have more and more pain every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another patient, Michael Asip, was there to see one of his physicians. He’d enrolled in expanded Medi-Cal before turning 65, then switched to Medicare. Long uninsured, he had gone months without seeing a doctor even after a heart attack. Now, the San Mateo resident sees a cardiologist, a primary care doctor, a psychologist and an endocrinologist through the medical center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sumita Kalra, a physician at a primary care clinic, said she has seen numerous patients like Muniz and Asip who put off health care for years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Chanting \"Medicare for all is our fight, health care is a human right,\" nurses and health care activists rallied in Sacramento Wednesday to support a new bill that would create universal health coverage for Californians.\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/309210872&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/309210872'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Senators Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) and Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) introduced \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB562\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 562 \u003c/a>last week. The bill would cover all residents of the state, even those who are undocumented. The bill does not include a timeline or specifics, but it does mention the intent to \"enact legislation that would establish a comprehensive universal single-payer health care coverage program.\" This would mean that the state government, not insurance companies, would pay for care. Such systems are also known as \"single payer,\" with Medicare being the best-known example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara spoke at the rally, greeting the crowd of roughly 400, many of them nurses mobilized by their union, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/site/entry/california-nurses-association\" target=\"_blank\">California Nurses Association\u003c/a>. \"We’re going to finally put doctors, nurses, and clinicians actually in charge of the care, and not insurance companies,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California legislators have twice submitted bills for universal health care that went all the way to the desk of then-governor Arnold Schwarzennegger. He vetoed both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Legislation introduced in the state Senate Friday would set California on a path toward the possible creation of a single-payer health care system ― a proposal that has failed to gain traction here in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which is a preliminary step, says that it is the “intent of the Legislature” to enact a law that would establish a comprehensive, single-payer health care program for the benefit of everyone in the state. The legislation, introduced by state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens), does not offer specifics of what the plan would look like, nor does it mention a timetable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A single-payer system would replace private insurance with a government plan that pays for coverage for everyone. Proponents argue that single-payer systems make health care more affordable and efficient, but opponents say they raise taxpayer costs and give government too much power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medicare, the federally-funded health coverage for the elderly, is often held up as a model of what a single-payer system might look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara said in an interview Thursday that the state needs to be prepared in case the Affordable Care Act is repealed, as President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The health of Californians is really at stake here and is at risk with what is being threatened in Congress,” Lara said, as the debate continued in Washington about the future of President Barack Obama’s signature health law. “We don’t have the luxury to wait and see what they are going to do and what the plan is,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara noted that while the Affordable Care Act expanded health coverage for many Californians, it left others uninsured or underinsured. He said the single-payer bill builds upon his “health for all kids” legislation, which resulted in coverage beginning last May for 170,000 immigrant children here illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve met many children who have asked me point blank, ‘What about my mom? 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Bonnie Castillo, the group’s associate executive director, said the goal is to create a system that doesn’t exclude anyone and helps relieve patients’ financial burdens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patients and their families are suffering as a result of having very high co-pay and premium costs,” she said. “They are having to make gut-wrenching decisions whether they go to the doctor or they stick it out and see if they get better on their own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castillo said that with so much uncertainty at the national level, California has the ability to create a better system. “We think we can get this right,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Bacchi, president and CEO of the California Association of Health Plans, said he hadn’t yet seen the bill, but the trade group has opposed single-payer proposals in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to tell until you know the details,” Bacchi said. “But past studies have shown [single-payer systems] are incredibly expensive and would be disruptive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said health plans, doctors, hospitals and others are “laser-focused on protecting and enhancing the gains we have made in coverage” under the Affordable Care Act and ensuring that California continues to receive critical funding. “We think that’s where the focus should be,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One possible concept of a single-payer system in California would be to bring together funding from several sources under one state umbrella: Medi-Cal, which covers the poor; Medicare, the federal program that covers older adults, and private insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara said he has not yet figured out the financing, saying that it is still early in the legislative process. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The health of Californians is really at stake here and is at risk with what is being threatened in Congress,” Lara said, as the debate continued in Washington about the future of President Barack Obama’s signature health law. “We don’t have the luxury to wait and see what they are going to do and what the plan is,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara noted that while the Affordable Care Act expanded health coverage for many Californians, it left others uninsured or underinsured. He said the single-payer bill builds upon his “health for all kids” legislation, which resulted in coverage beginning last May for 170,000 immigrant children here illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve met many children who have asked me point blank, ‘What about my mom? What about my dad?’” Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently \u003ca href=\"http://californiahealthline.org/news/california-withdraws-bid-to-allow-undocumented-immigrants-to-buy-unsubsidized-obamacare-plans/\" target=\"_blank\">withdrew a request\u003c/a> to the federal government, based on a bill he had introduced, that would have allowed adult immigrants here illegally to purchase unsubsidized health plans through Covered California, the state’s insurance exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_188745\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-188745 size-khn-article-vertical\" src=\"https://californiahealthline.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/lara_670.jpg?w=270&h=405&crop=1\" alt=\"Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens (Courtesy Sen. Lara's office)\" width=\"270\" height=\"405\">\n\u003cp class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens (Courtesy Sen. Lara’s office)\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>According to the text of the Lara’s bill, a single-payer system would help address rising out-of-pocket costs and shrinking networks of doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No state has a single-payer health system. Perhaps the best-known effort to create one was in Vermont, but it failed in 2014 after the state couldn’t figure out how to finance it. Last year, Colorado residents rejected a ballot measure that would have used payroll taxes to fund a near universal coverage system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, voters rejected a ballot initiative in 1994 that would have established a government-run universal health program. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger later vetoed two bills that would have accomplished the same goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s difficult to create consensus on single-payer plans because they dramatically shift how health care is delivered and paid for, said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation (California Healthline is produced by Kaiser Health News, an editorially-independent program of the foundation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Single-payer plans have lots of appeal in their simplicity and ability to control costs,” Levitt said. “But what I think has always held back a move to single-payer is the disruption they create in financing and delivery of care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, Levitt said, is that even if they end up costing less overall, single-payer plans look to the public like a “very big tax increase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Nurses Association, the primary sponsor of the new bill, is planning a rally in Sacramento next week in support of a single-payer system. Bonnie Castillo, the group’s associate executive director, said the goal is to create a system that doesn’t exclude anyone and helps relieve patients’ financial burdens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patients and their families are suffering as a result of having very high co-pay and premium costs,” she said. “They are having to make gut-wrenching decisions whether they go to the doctor or they stick it out and see if they get better on their own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castillo said that with so much uncertainty at the national level, California has the ability to create a better system. “We think we can get this right,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Bacchi, president and CEO of the California Association of Health Plans, said he hadn’t yet seen the bill, but the trade group has opposed single-payer proposals in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to tell until you know the details,” Bacchi said. “But past studies have shown [single-payer systems] are incredibly expensive and would be disruptive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said health plans, doctors, hospitals and others are “laser-focused on protecting and enhancing the gains we have made in coverage” under the Affordable Care Act and ensuring that California continues to receive critical funding. “We think that’s where the focus should be,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One possible concept of a single-payer system in California would be to bring together funding from several sources under one state umbrella: Medi-Cal, which covers the poor; Medicare, the federal program that covers older adults, and private insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara said he has not yet figured out the financing, saying that it is still early in the legislative process. 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"content": "\u003cp>Some large health insurance companies have suffered losses under the Affordable Care Act, leading to a couple high-profile exits from the health exchanges – Humana was the latest. But one smaller, Long Beach-based insurer has done OK: Molina Healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understood the demographics of the people that we’re serving a little better, ” said J. Mario Molina, CEO of Molina Healthcare, \"because we’ve been doing it for so long,\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molina’s father, David, founded Molina Healthcare in 1980, after a career as a doctor. Sometimes his patients couldn’t pay, so they would barter, or they gave him items from their homes instead: a glass decanter, a pipe organ, even the family dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My father was old-fashioned,” recalled the younger Molina. “He believed doctors had an obligation to take care of patients, and that the primary issue was not how they were going to get paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_294594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-294594\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/015-800x623.jpg\" alt=\"C. David Molina reviewing medical records\" width=\"800\" height=\"623\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">C. David Molina reviewing medical records \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Molina Healthcare)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The elder Molina opened a network of medical clinics serving low-income patients, and then later, started a health insurance company focused on customers with Medicaid, government coverage for the poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is what positioned the company to move into the Obamacare marketplaces so smoothly, Mario Molina explained, because most people who signed up for Obamacare plans are low-income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a different population most insurance companies haven’t been interested in,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, transportation is an issue for their customers, Molina said. They often take the bus to medical appointments, so they’d much rather see a doctor close to home, not someone at a fancy academic hospital 30 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t contract with every hospital and every doctor,” he said. “It’s not everyone, but it’s enough so that you can find a doctor and the hospital and the services you need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/308218361\" 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>Having fewer doctors in their network means lower costs for Molina. And that means the company was able to earn some modest profits -- roughly 1 percent in the first couple years of Obamacare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some big name commercial insurers are used to creating health plans for employers, who often want more doctors and more benefits to attract better employees. Plans like that cost more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re looking at things sort of from the top down, and we’re looking at things from the bottom up,” Molina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s used to running a low-cost, low-margin business. Those big guys aren’t. Industry analysts say that’s why some of them lost money with Obamacare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s easier to work up from a low-cost position than it is to work down from a higher-cost position,” said Josh Weisbrod, a health care consultant with Bain and Company. “For an insurer that is used to selling employer plans with rich benefit designs and broad networks, it is difficult for them to transition that to a narrow network of lower cost providers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Molina says there’s been a serious downside to his company’s success: a provision of the Affordable Care Act known as “risk transfer.” The program was designed to help insurance companies cover losses, if they ended up with a lot of really sick, expensive patients. The way it works: companies with fewer sick patients pay some of their revenues to the companies that have more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a fine idea, Molina said, but the formula lawmakers came up with to calculate risk was all wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_294593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-294593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/MARIO-MOLINA_FINAL1-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Molina, CEO of Molina Healthcare\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Molina, CEO of Molina Healthcare \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Molina Healthcare)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Let’s put it this way: currently Molina Healthcare is returning 25 percent of our premiums to the government, which are then distributed to our competitors,” he said. “So we are really subsidizing our competitors and helping them, rather than forcing them to compete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that hit Molina’s bottom line in 2016, resulting in much lower profits than originally projected. Molina said the risk formula factors in the average cost of premiums in the state, which seems to punish efficiency rather than help those who had some bad luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it was done by well-meaning people who had a theoretical knowledge, but not a practical knowledge of insurance,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Molina remains a fan of the Affordable Care Act overall. His company operates in 12 states and Puerto Rico, and he hopes Congress will consult with him and other insurers as it debates the future of the health law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t need to be scrapped and replaced,” he said. “It needs a tune-up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that if lawmakers need guidance on how to fix Obamacare, they should look at one state that really got it right: California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California insurance regulators \"forced everyone to really compete. and that made everyone kind of sharpen their pencils and do a better job,” he said. “It’s kept everyone on their toes, and, as a result, I think there’s been more stability in the marketplace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also more predictability. California may have more business regulations than other states, but Molina believes that’s created a level playing field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state doesn’t make arbitrary decisions. We can plan from year to year. 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And that means the company was able to earn some modest profits -- roughly 1 percent in the first couple years of Obamacare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some big name commercial insurers are used to creating health plans for employers, who often want more doctors and more benefits to attract better employees. Plans like that cost more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re looking at things sort of from the top down, and we’re looking at things from the bottom up,” Molina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s used to running a low-cost, low-margin business. Those big guys aren’t. Industry analysts say that’s why some of them lost money with Obamacare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s easier to work up from a low-cost position than it is to work down from a higher-cost position,” said Josh Weisbrod, a health care consultant with Bain and Company. “For an insurer that is used to selling employer plans with rich benefit designs and broad networks, it is difficult for them to transition that to a narrow network of lower cost providers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Molina says there’s been a serious downside to his company’s success: a provision of the Affordable Care Act known as “risk transfer.” The program was designed to help insurance companies cover losses, if they ended up with a lot of really sick, expensive patients. The way it works: companies with fewer sick patients pay some of their revenues to the companies that have more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a fine idea, Molina said, but the formula lawmakers came up with to calculate risk was all wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_294593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-294593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/MARIO-MOLINA_FINAL1-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Molina, CEO of Molina Healthcare\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Molina, CEO of Molina Healthcare \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Molina Healthcare)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Let’s put it this way: currently Molina Healthcare is returning 25 percent of our premiums to the government, which are then distributed to our competitors,” he said. “So we are really subsidizing our competitors and helping them, rather than forcing them to compete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that hit Molina’s bottom line in 2016, resulting in much lower profits than originally projected. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Senate confirmed Rep. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/28/502566553/trump-chooses-rep-tom-price-an-obamacare-foe-to-run-hhs\">Tom Price\u003c/a> (R-Georgia) early Friday as the new secretary of Health and Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was approved by a party-line vote of 52-47. Democrats were concerned that the conservative congressman wants to pare down government health programs. They were also troubled by lingering ethics questions over Price's investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his new role, Price, a retired orthopedic surgeon from suburban Atlanta who served as chairman of the House Budget Committee, is expected to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/03/508074966/republicans-take-the-first-step-to-repeal-obamacare\" target=\"_blank\">implement the repeal\u003c/a> and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, which his colleagues in Congress have been working on this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price will oversee a $1 trillion agency, the largest budget of any Cabinet secretary. In addition to Obamacare, HHS administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs and oversees the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/02/01/512687027/hhs-nominee-tom-price-targeted-panel-that-urged-fewer-cancer-screenings\" target=\"_blank\">National Institutes of Health\u003c/a>, among other programs and agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Price's confirmation, HHS now has as its leader a budget hawk who \u003ca href=\"http://tomprice.house.gov/sites/tomprice.house.gov/files/HR%202300%20Empowering%20Patients%20First%20Act%202015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">has proposed\u003c/a> replacing the Affordable Care Act subsidies that are tied to income, with tax credits to purchase insurance. Tax credits are not determined by an individual's income level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price also supports \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/26/503158039/paul-ryans-plan-to-change-medicare-looks-a-lot-like-obamacare\" target=\"_blank\">the proposal\u003c/a> by House Speaker Paul Ryan to turn Medicare into what some call a \"voucher\" program. Under the plan, beneficiaries would receive \"premium support\" from the government to buy a Medicare health plan through an exchange. The private plans would compete against the traditional government-run program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/01/18/510472472/senate-health-committee-questions-rep-tom-price-in-hhs-confirmation-hearing\" target=\"_blank\">confirmation hearing\u003c/a>, Price said his goal was that everyone have access to health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I commit to the American people is to keep patients at the center of health care. And what that means to me is making certain every single American has access to affordable health coverage,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats spent hours on Thursday reading stories from their constituents about how the Affordable Care Act helped them, and tried to make the case that Price is a threat to Medicare, Medicaid and health care for people who have ongoing medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Congressman Price's budget in the House cuts nearly $500 million from Medicare and turns it into a voucher program,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://www.billnelson.senate.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>ROSEVILLE, Calif. — Until recently, Paul Smith didn’t consider himself much of an activist. But he woke up hours before sunrise on Saturday to attend his first town hall meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meeting near Sacramento, organized by his district’s Congressman Tom McClintock (R-Roseville), sparked a peaceful — if large and raucous — protest over Obamacare, the travel ban and other issues. And it drew national headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have noticed many of my friends who never speak [about] politics are getting political,” said Smith, a 46-year-old Rocklin, Calif., resident and registered Democrat who works in marketing. He said he did not vote for McClintock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once on the political sidelines, Smith now finds himself one of the leading members of a group called Indivisible California-04 — named for McClintock’s 4th Congressional district. It is one of hundreds of groups forming across the country to “resist” the Trump Administration’s agenda, which includes repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside veteran protesters, recently galvanized Californians like Smith are demonstrating, calling lawmakers and taking other measures to make their voices heard. For many, the issues are not partisan. They are personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Placer County resident Veronica Blake said her mother went without health insurance for nearly 10 years before she died in 2012 from heart disease. She had been diagnosed with breast cancer in her early 30s, and although she beat it after a mastectomy, the preexisting condition made her a high-risk patient whom insurers didn’t want to take on, Blake said.\u003cbr>\nBlake wonders how much longer her mother would have lived if she’d had health insurance all those years. Could her heart problems have been detected and treated earlier?\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_224629\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-224629 size-full\" src=\"https://californiahealthline.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/mcclintock-aca-9_770.jpg?w=770&h=513\" alt=\"Veronica Blake (left), 48, of Placer County, said she was interested in learning what Rep. McClintock had to say about the ACA replacement plan, but wasn’t able to get into event. Her mother passed away in 2013. When her mother divorced, she lost her husband’s employer coverage. It was difficult for an insurance to her take her because she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in her 30s, and although it had been cleared through a mastectomy, it was considered a preexisting condition. If her mother would have had insurance and better preventive care, her heart conditions could have been detected earlier and she might have lived longer, Blake said. (Ana B. Ibarra/California Healthline)\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\">\n\u003cp class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Blake, left, 48, of Placer County, said she was interested in learning what Rep. McClintock had to say about the ACA replacement plan, but wasn’t able to get into event. (Ana B. Ibarra/California Healthline)\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Blake joined hundreds of others at Saturday’s rally, she said, because she has other family members with illnesses that would be considered preexisting conditions and fears that their coverage could be taken away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurel Ward, who is a nurse in Placer County, said she made her way to McClintock’s town hall event because of what she sees daily in her crowded emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also has a younger sister who was able to obtain coverage as a result of the Medi-Cal expansion made possible by the Affordable Care Act. “It’s difficult for young people to afford health insurance,” Ward said. “I know, because I went without insurance when I was a student.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the ACA,” she said. “It’s only going to get worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘People Are Angry’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Indivisible California-04, the goal is to look ahead to the 2018 election. “We want to change politics in our district,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.indivisibleguide.com/\">website for the Indivisible\u003c/a> movement offers groups a guide said to have been created by former congressional staffers and inspired by the rise of the Tea Party. It allows people to search and sign up for a local activist group, and as of Tuesday, there were 33 groups registered within 25 miles of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Beutler, chair of the rural caucus for the California Democratic Party and a founding member of another group, Indivisible Sierra Nevada, said she thinks these organizations are gaining popularity because people are desperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are angry, they are frustrated and want to do something. This gives them a place to go,” said the Placerville, Calif., resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beutler, who is on Medicare and Social Security, worries that cuts to her benefits means she’ll have to sell her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope this event was a wakeup call [for McClintock],” Beutler said. “His constituents are not happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_224623\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-224623 size-full\" src=\"https://californiahealthline.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/mcclintock-aca-3_770.jpg?w=770&h=513\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\">\n\u003cp class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protest organized near Sacramento sparked a peaceful — if large and raucous — protest over Obamacare. (Ana B. Ibarra/California Healthline)\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Although McClintock later characterized the gathering as having \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-hundreds-of-people-show-up-for-town-1486246073-htmlstory.html\">“an anarchist element,”\u003c/a> other attendees and a reporter outside the packed auditorium saw an intense but peaceful demonstration, with many senior citizens among the crowd. McClintock was escorted from the town hall meeting by police, but no arrests or citations were made, according to Roseville police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClintock’s staff did not return a request for comment from California Healthline. But in an i\u003ca href=\"http://www.kcra.com/article/interview-rep-tom-mcclintock-r-roseville-talks-to-kcra-3/8677813\" target=\"_blank\">nterview with with Sacramento television station KCRA\u003c/a> 3 after the meeting, McClintock was critical of some demonstrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made a big impression on me that there is an intolerance in the political left that is running very deep, and the fact that police had to intervene is a serious indication of the growing violence streak within the left,” he said. “This is very disturbing, but I will also say that most of the people there were decent concerned citizens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding the GOP’s plan to replace the ACA, McClintock told KCRA 3 he expects to see a plan “reported out within the next few weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll follow the plan that has been proposed by [Republican Congressman and Health and Human Services Secretary nominee] Tom Price over many years … which is restore to individuals the financial means and the wide range of choices to put their families back in charge of their own health care,” McClintock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators also have been active in other largely Republican districts, in California and around the country. About 300 miles south of Roseville, hundreds gathered \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article129305619.html\">on Jan. 27\u003c/a> in front of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s Bakersfield office to advocate for preserving the Affordable Care Act. McCarthy supports replacing it, but advocates point out that the area he represents is highly dependent on Medicaid and Medicare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_224626\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-224626\" src=\"https://californiahealthline.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/mcclintock-aca-6_770.jpg?w=770&h=513\" alt=\"Helen Cheng, is an internist in El Dorado County. Some of her patients are worried about what might happen to their Covered California plans. “I’m here because of my patients. Getting insurance is a nightmare for some of these people.” (Ana B. Ibarra/California Healthline)\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\">\n\u003cp class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helen Cheng is an internist in El Dorado County. Some of her patients are worried about what might happen to their Covered California plans. “I’m here because of my patients. Getting insurance is a nightmare for some of these people.” (Ana B. Ibarra/California Healthline)\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://californiahealthline.org/news/with-a-high-deductible-even-a-doctor-can-short-change-his-health/\" target=\"_blank\">McCarthy represents most of Kern and Tulare counties\u003c/a>, where approximately 150,000 people are enrolled in expanded Medicaid as a result of the ACA, and about another 29,000 have enrolled in a Covered California plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article127529659.html#storylink=cpy\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed published in the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> last month, McCarthy wrote that the Medicaid program is in need of reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is true that millions of Californians receive health insurance coverage through Obamacare and in particular through the Medicaid expansion. But the number of insured matters little when the quality of the insurance is so dismal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennis Revell, chair of the Placer County Republican Party, said that the demonstration outside McClintock’s town hall meeting was one of the most organized he’s seen. But he said it was not a true organic, local movement. People were invited by organizers from across county and state lines, he said, although he offered no evidence of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic Party is not as active or organized in Placer County as it is in other counties, which is why Saturday’s event stood out, Revell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would be fair to say that the speed at which the Trump administration is moving to deliver on its promises has galvanized the progressive and left to organize to a point that they’ve never had to before,” Revell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Rosen, a member of Indivisible Auburn, Calif., said organizers are now focused on spreading the word about citizen activism. In his last recruitment meeting, more than 80 local residents showed up wanting to learn more about how to become involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It shows that there is an army of people who are profoundly upset,” Rosen said, “and particularly concerned about destroying the progress we’ve made with the ACA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that Veronica Blake's mother had obtained health insurance through Covered California in 2013, shortly before her death. Blake later told California Healthline that she had been mistaken. Her mother had not obtained this insurance before her death, which was in 2012. The story has been updated.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Ibarra/California Healthline)\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Blake joined hundreds of others at Saturday’s rally, she said, because she has other family members with illnesses that would be considered preexisting conditions and fears that their coverage could be taken away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurel Ward, who is a nurse in Placer County, said she made her way to McClintock’s town hall event because of what she sees daily in her crowded emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also has a younger sister who was able to obtain coverage as a result of the Medi-Cal expansion made possible by the Affordable Care Act. “It’s difficult for young people to afford health insurance,” Ward said. “I know, because I went without insurance when I was a student.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the ACA,” she said. “It’s only going to get worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘People Are Angry’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Indivisible California-04, the goal is to look ahead to the 2018 election. “We want to change politics in our district,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.indivisibleguide.com/\">website for the Indivisible\u003c/a> movement offers groups a guide said to have been created by former congressional staffers and inspired by the rise of the Tea Party. It allows people to search and sign up for a local activist group, and as of Tuesday, there were 33 groups registered within 25 miles of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Beutler, chair of the rural caucus for the California Democratic Party and a founding member of another group, Indivisible Sierra Nevada, said she thinks these organizations are gaining popularity because people are desperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are angry, they are frustrated and want to do something. This gives them a place to go,” said the Placerville, Calif., resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beutler, who is on Medicare and Social Security, worries that cuts to her benefits means she’ll have to sell her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope this event was a wakeup call [for McClintock],” Beutler said. “His constituents are not happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_224623\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-224623 size-full\" src=\"https://californiahealthline.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/mcclintock-aca-3_770.jpg?w=770&h=513\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\">\n\u003cp class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protest organized near Sacramento sparked a peaceful — if large and raucous — protest over Obamacare. (Ana B. Ibarra/California Healthline)\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Although McClintock later characterized the gathering as having \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-hundreds-of-people-show-up-for-town-1486246073-htmlstory.html\">“an anarchist element,”\u003c/a> other attendees and a reporter outside the packed auditorium saw an intense but peaceful demonstration, with many senior citizens among the crowd. McClintock was escorted from the town hall meeting by police, but no arrests or citations were made, according to Roseville police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClintock’s staff did not return a request for comment from California Healthline. But in an i\u003ca href=\"http://www.kcra.com/article/interview-rep-tom-mcclintock-r-roseville-talks-to-kcra-3/8677813\" target=\"_blank\">nterview with with Sacramento television station KCRA\u003c/a> 3 after the meeting, McClintock was critical of some demonstrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made a big impression on me that there is an intolerance in the political left that is running very deep, and the fact that police had to intervene is a serious indication of the growing violence streak within the left,” he said. “This is very disturbing, but I will also say that most of the people there were decent concerned citizens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding the GOP’s plan to replace the ACA, McClintock told KCRA 3 he expects to see a plan “reported out within the next few weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll follow the plan that has been proposed by [Republican Congressman and Health and Human Services Secretary nominee] Tom Price over many years … which is restore to individuals the financial means and the wide range of choices to put their families back in charge of their own health care,” McClintock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators also have been active in other largely Republican districts, in California and around the country. About 300 miles south of Roseville, hundreds gathered \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article129305619.html\">on Jan. 27\u003c/a> in front of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s Bakersfield office to advocate for preserving the Affordable Care Act. McCarthy supports replacing it, but advocates point out that the area he represents is highly dependent on Medicaid and Medicare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_224626\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-224626\" src=\"https://californiahealthline.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/mcclintock-aca-6_770.jpg?w=770&h=513\" alt=\"Helen Cheng, is an internist in El Dorado County. Some of her patients are worried about what might happen to their Covered California plans. “I’m here because of my patients. Getting insurance is a nightmare for some of these people.” (Ana B. 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But the number of insured matters little when the quality of the insurance is so dismal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennis Revell, chair of the Placer County Republican Party, said that the demonstration outside McClintock’s town hall meeting was one of the most organized he’s seen. But he said it was not a true organic, local movement. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jay Zimmerman got his first BB gun when he was seven, and his first shotgun when he was ten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up in Appalachia, you look forward to getting your first firearm probably more so than your first car,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His grandfather taught him to hunt squirrel and quail. Zimmerman, who lives in Tennessee, says pretty much everyone he knows has a gun. It’s just part of the culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I went into the military, that culture was reinforced,” he says. “Your weapon is almost another appendage. It’s part of who you are.”\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/305633357&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/305633357'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zimmerman was a medic in the army in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He served in Bosnia, Africa, and the Middle East. Since he came home, he’s struggled with PTSD and depression. It reached a crisis point a few years ago, when his best friend -- the guy who had saved his life in a combat zone -- killed himself. Zimmerman decided his time was up too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided that I would have one more birthday with my daughter, one more Christmas with my daughter,” he says. “I had devised my own exit strategy for sixteen February, 2013.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then he bumped into a woman who used to ride the same school bus when they were kids. His exit date came and went. They’re married now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zimmerman is a peer counselor at the \u003ca href=\"http://Mountain%20Home%20VA%20Medical%20Center\" target=\"_blank\">Mountain Home VA Medical Center\u003c/a> in Johnson City, Tennessee. He also travels to conferences all over the country, sharing his story with therapists and with other vets. He tries to set an example that it’s okay to ask for help. Even today, if he’s not doing well, he disassembles his guns and stores them separately from ammunition, so he can’t make any rash decisions. If things get really bad, Zimmerman has a special arrangement with a few friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I call them and say, 'Look, I’m feeling like it’s not safe for me to have firearms in my home. Can you store them for me for a couple days till I feel like I’m OK to have them back?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_274997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-274997\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/12/Jay-Zimmerman-in-uniform-and-dad-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jay Zimmerman (right) was an army medic. He poses with his dad before he deployed to Bosnia in 1998.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Zimmerman (right) was an army medic. He poses with his dad before he deployed to Bosnia in 1998. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy of Jay Zimmerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suicide is an impulsive act. Nearly half the people who survive an attempt say the time between their first thought of suicide and the attempt itself was less than 10 minutes. But the method can mean the difference between life and death: people who take pills have time to change their minds. Not with guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 70 percent of veterans who commit suicide do so with a gun, which prompted President Barack Obama to order the VA to talk to vets about gun safety and storage options like the ones Zimmerman uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here’s the trouble: Most therapists aren’t gun people. They don’t know how to talk about guns. And so they don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One obvious reason for that is that no one has taught them how,” explained Megan McCarthy, National Deputy Director in the Office for Suicide Prevention at the Department of Veterans Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy was invited to speak recently at a suicide-prevention conference in San Francisco for therapists who work with vets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many of you would say you feel really comfortable having a conversation with any of the people you work with about limiting access to all lethal means?” she asked the roomful of therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hardly anyone raised their hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Okay, so that’s why we’re here today,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers recommend starting with a field trip to a shooting range. There, therapists can learn about different kinds of firearms, as well as gun locks, and get an introduction to gun culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When counseling vets, therapists have to ask more questions and be less directive, according to McCarthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We often conceive of ourselves as experts, as people who impart information to clients,” she said. But with vets, \"it may take time to build trust. Telling them what to do the first time you’ve met them is probably not going to be a very effective approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_275001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-275001\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/12/AFSP.VAConference-Audience-1-e1482453949563.jpg\" alt=\"Therapists learn how to talk to vets about guns at a conference in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Therapists learn how to talk to vets about guns at a conference in San Francisco.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy presented a case study at the conference: A 28-year old army veteran who fought in Iraq told his VA psychiatrist that he had an argument with his girlfriend last week. He drove to an empty parking lot and sat with his loaded handgun in his lap, intending to kill himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t do it. A week later, the man told his psychiatrist things were still tense with his girlfriend. But he didn’t want to talk about suicide or storing his gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy asked the clinicians in the audience what they would do next, if they were this man’s psychiatrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why did he not do it? That would be my question,” said one therapist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d say, would you be willing to talk more about that?” said another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would want to see this individual again, within the same week,” said a third. “I believe in strong intervention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay Zimmerman, the former army medic and peer counselor, stood up. He told them they’re all wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chances are the reason he’s not talking to you is because he’s afraid he’s going to lose his gun, that he carries pretty much all the time,” he said. “My buddies are the same way, we all carry all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zimmerman said the vet in the case study would rather talk to someone like him than someone in a white coat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he’s got that good relationship with me as a peer, as a buddy, he’s probably already called me and talked to me,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. 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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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