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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Julie Rovner\u003c/strong>, NPR\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's Note: This story also appears as part of \u003ca title=\"http://capsules.kaiserhealthnews.org/index.php/2012/07/gop-says-coverage-for-the-uninsured-is-not-their-priority/\" href=\"http://capsules.kaiserhealthnews.org/index.php/2012/07/gop-says-coverage-for-the-uninsured-is-not-their-priority/\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiser Health News\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7686\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/07/Screen-Shot-2012-07-27-at-11.48.02-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-7686\" title='Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) on \"Fox News Sunday\" with Chris Wallace earlier this month.' src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/07/Screen-Shot-2012-07-27-at-11.48.02-AM-300x150.png\" alt=\"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace earlier this month.\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace earlier this month.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For decades, the primary goal of those who would fix the U.S. health system has been to help people without insurance get coverage. Now, it seems, all that may be changing. At least some top Republicans are trying to steer the health debate away from the problem of the uninsured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift in emphasis is a subtle one, but it’s noticeable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take this exchange between \u003cem>Fox News Sunday\u003c/em> host Chris Wallace and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) \u003ca href=\"http://video.foxnews.com/v/1715039029001/mcconnell-we-can-defeat-obamacare-in-november/\" target=\"_blank\">earlier this month\u003c/a>, just after the Supreme Court upheld most of President Obama’s health law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wallace\u003c/strong>: “What specifically are you going to do to provide universal coverage to the 30 million people who are uninsured?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>McConnell\u003c/strong>: “That is not the issue. … The question is how can you go step by step to improve the American health care system? It is already the finest health care system in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wallace\u003c/strong>: “But you don’t think that 30 million people who are uninsured is an issue?”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>McConnell\u003c/strong>: “Let me tell you what we’re not going to do. We’re not going to turn the American health care system into a Western European system. That is exactly what is at the heart of Obamacare. They want to have the federal government take over all of American health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By “Western European,” McConnell means government-run or primarily government-run. Western European countries also pretty much \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/series/91972152/health-care-for-all\" target=\"_blank\">don’t have people who don’t have health insurance\u003c/a>. And by the way, there are \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/data/incpovhlth/2010/highlights.html\" target=\"_blank\">closer to 50 million Americans\u003c/a> without health insurance; 30 million is the number the health law is estimated likely to cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But McConnell isn’t the only top Republican saying covering the uninsured should no longer be the top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conservatives cannot allow themselves to be browbeaten by failing to provide the same coverage numbers as Obamacare,” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, told a conference at the conservative \u003ca href=\"http://www.aei.org/events/2012/07/09/the-affordable-care-act-what-should-congress-do-next/\" target=\"_blank\">American Enterprise Institute\u003c/a>. “To be clear, it is a disgrace that so many American families go without health insurance coverage. But we cannot succumb to the pressure to argue on the left’s terms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if getting more people coverage isn’t the goal, what is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your goal should be reducing costs, and expanding individual liberty,” said Dean Clancy, who also spoke at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aei.org/events/print/the-affordable-care-act-what-should-congress-do-next\" target=\"_blank\">AEI conference\u003c/a>. He’s legislative counsel for \u003ca href=\"http://www.freedomworks.org/dean-clancy-biography\" target=\"_blank\">Freedomworks\u003c/a>, a group that supports and trains Tea Party activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Clancy says reducing costs doesn’t mean doing nothing, even though that’s what many of the people he talks to would prefer. “What they don’t often understand is the government has already screwed it up significantly, such that we have no choice but to try to reform, to undo the wrong things we’ve done,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clancy is only one of many policy types who are trying to convince more Republicans to put expanding coverage on the back burner. Another is Michael Cannon, head of health policy at the libertarian \u003ca href=\"http://www.cato.org/people/michael-cannon\" target=\"_blank\">Cato Institute\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannon has long questioned the idea that expanding insurance coverage should be the holy grail of health reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that the government should guarantee health insurance to everybody passes as really gospel in health policy circles, without any serious consideration, without any sort of examination of why is it that we want people to have health insurance, is health insurance the best way to serve those goals, could there be lower-cost ways of achieving those goals,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People need to have the freedom not to have insurance if the marketplace is to function properly, he says. “Because if they don’t have freedom, if the government is requiring them to purchase health insurance either from a private company or the government, then the government gets to define what health insurance is, and that stifles a lot of innovation in the health insurance and health care delivery markets, and we’re suffering under that sort of regulation right now,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But supporters of the health care law say arguments about making the marketplace function better are all a big smokescreen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every once in a while, the Republicans have rare moments of honesty. And so when they say that they don’t want to expand coverage, this is one of those rare moments,” says Ethan Rome, who runs \u003ca href=\"http://healthcareforamericanow.org/for-the-press/press-kit/ethan-rome-executive-director-health-care-for-america-now/\" target=\"_blank\">Health Care for America Now\u003c/a>, an advocacy group working to promote and defend the health care law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They look around and they see middle-class families and others in need, and what do they want to do? They want to give tax breaks to the super rich,” he says. “That’s who they are and what they do. And I think that’s why they’re starting to talk about how they don’t want to expand coverage. Because they at least want to be truthful about a couple of things. 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That's the group tasked with developing an online marketplace where Californians will be able to buy health insurance. Yesterday, KQED's Mina Kim attended the board's first meeting since the ACA was upheld. Today I went to a meeting of the Latino Coalition for a Health California. It was sort of a point-counterpoint experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, from Mina Kim. As she detailed on \u003ca title=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201207200850/b\" href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201207200850/b\" target=\"_blank\">The California Report\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Hundreds of people packed the auditorium in Oakland yesterday where the Board meeting was held. At issue for many people was that health plans have a standard format so that it's easy for consumers to compare costs and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"http://www.consumersunion.org/about/2006/10/elizabeth_betsy_imholz_1.html\" href=\"http://www.consumersunion.org/about/2006/10/elizabeth_betsy_imholz_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Betsy Imholz\u003c/a>, with the advocacy group Consumers Union, told Kim that this is a critical time for the exchange. \"It’s where the rubber meets the road … figuring out what plans will be part of the exchange.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some health plan representatives warned against putting too many requirements on insurers -- which could make plans expensive. 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Board member Paul Fearer told Kim, \"It’s a lot of work, but we’ve got a lot of passionate people a great staff and a really good board, so that gives us a great chance.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Today, members of the \u003ca title=\"http://www.lchc.org/\" href=\"http://www.lchc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Latino Coalition for a Healthy California\u003c/a> (LCHC) struck a more sobering note at its scheduled meeting. While the January 2014 deadline is looming, LCHC Board Director \u003ca title=\"http://www.lchc.org/about_us/board.html\" href=\"http://www.lchc.org/about_us/board.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gil Ojeda\u003c/a> worries the Exchange planning process is nonetheless moving too quickly. \"When you move a freight train at 90 miles an hour, some things are going to get put aside,\" he told me, a reference to interim deadlines to have the essential health benefits determined that plans must meet. \"We're not convinced this can all be hashed out in the next 45 days.\" He wondered why plans must be determined by September. \"Why not October, or November?\" he mused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many at the meeting were also concerned that the state lacks the primary care providers it will need to absorb the estimated \u003ca title=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org/article/court-ruling-green-lights-california’s-aggressive-move-health-reform941\" href=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org/article/court-ruling-green-lights-california%E2%80%99s-aggressive-move-health-reform941\" target=\"_blank\">3 million Californians\u003c/a> who will be newly insured. \"I can tell you right now,\" Ojeda said. \"We don't have a chance of achieving the numbers (of primary care providers) we need by 2014.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board of the California Health Benefit Exchange meets monthly -- its next meeting is August 23. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By \u003ca href=\"http://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Communication%20and%20Journalism/WestphalD.aspxhttp://\" target=\"_blank\">David Westphal\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CHCF Center for Health Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court’s validation of President Obama’s landmark health law sets off a scramble across California to find enough primary care doctors and other professionals to serve an estimated 3 million newly insured patients by 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already rates below average in the number of doctors per capita. But the state – rural counties in particular – will face additional headwinds as health reform slashes the ranks of its 7 million uninsured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has an unusually large number of doctors heading into their retirement years. It expects a much higher-than-average rise in the health-intensive 65-and-older population. And it has one of the lowest reimbursement rates in the country for Medi-Cal, the state’s primary program offering health coverage for the poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially for communities that are already struggling with doctor shortages, the court’s somewhat unexpected endorsement of the Affordable Care Act suddenly presents a steep challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“What good is it in 2014,” when millions of uninsured Californians will gain coverage “when they don’t have access to providers?”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The Affordable Care Act will add hundreds of thousands of people to the rolls of the insured. That’s good,” said Dr. G. 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They also have some of California’s highest uninsured rates – exceeding 30 percent of residents in some counties, according to a 2009 UCLA study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could mean the same counties already fighting doctor shortages could see big increases in the insured starting in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if local providers in San Luis Obispo County were numerous enough to accommodate the new patients created by health reform, county health officer Dr. Penny Borenstein had a definitive answer: “No. Simply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may have the possibility of adding 10,000, 15,000, 25,000 people into the health care system who have not used it very much,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee Kemper, executive director of the County Medical Services Program, a consortium of 34 rural counties that are implementing the Medi-Cal expansion together, said a mixture of innovation and increased funding was key to meeting the demands of health reform -- now a mere 18 months away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to have to get creative,” Kemper said on Friday. “Strike teams” of medical specialists from urban areas could be brought into rural hospitals and clinics on a set schedule, he said. 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But the health industry worries that the underlying problem won’t go away, and that both state and federal politicians will be tempted to cut Medicaid reimbursements even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Health Committee chairman Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina) plans to make the health care workforce, which he said is currently inadequate, one of his top priorities. “What good is it in 2014,” when millions of uninsured Californians will gain coverage “when they don’t have access to providers?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of his key but controversial proposals will be legislation to\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>expand scope-of-practice definitions for some health care providers such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Coffman, assistant professor of health policy at UC San Francisco, said California lags many states in this area because most residents live in urban areas where doctor shortages aren’t as much of a problem. Because of the Affordable Care Act, she said, “I would say scope of practice is on the radar screen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez, who said he is holding committee hearings on workforce issues, will also try to boost the number of medical students in the state and bring medical residency programs to underserved areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the health law was passed in 2010, the shortage of primary care physicians in California catalyzed a far-flung campaign--by educators, doctors, government leaders--to train new doctors in the state and encourage them to practice in under-served regions, including the Central Valley and the Inland Empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That drive led to plans for all-new medical schools at UC Riverside and UC Merced, with an emphasis on primary care. Plans called for eventually enrolling 400 students at each school, both of them aiming to coax graduates to stay in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state budget crisis has delayed both projects. This fall, 11 students, all ethnic minority students from the Central Valley area, will be enrolled in a UC Merced program with ties to UC Davis and UCSF-Fresno. Pending accreditation approval, UC Riverside hopes to open in 2013 with an initial class of 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforhealthreporting.org/\">\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>produces in-depth reporting on California health policy.\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em> \u003cem>Attached to the\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://annenberg.usc.edu/\">\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism,\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> the center is funded by the nonpartisan\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/\">\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>California HealthCare Foundation\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. John M. Gonzales, Lauren M. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7024\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/JobSeekersQueens20120503.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-7024\" title=\"Will employers stop covering employees and push them to the exchanges once they are set up in the 50 states? (STAN HONDA/AFP/GettyImages)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/JobSeekersQueens20120503-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will employers stop covering employees and push them to the exchanges once they are set up in the 50 states? 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Will the \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CGgQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcare.gov%2Flaw%2Fresources%2Freports%2Fnationalqualitystrategy032011.pdf&ei=hurtT7q-D-LYmAXcmITsDQ&usg=AFQjCNGYdFr3tlRHnQB8_yMkjKrrJTBMCw\" target=\"_blank\">health care system become uniformly robust\u003c/a>, or will it put a huge \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&ved=0CGYQFjAJ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.physiciansfoundation.org%2FuploadedFiles%2FHealth%2520Reform%2520and%2520the%2520Decline%2520of%2520Physician%2520Private%2520Practice.pdf&ei=YubtT72BC6T4mAXu7f3hDQ&usg=AFQjCNEuQcVRmc2ji1J9GX8kB1xFwR31xQ\" target=\"_blank\">burden on physicians in private practice\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And another biggie that you'll be hearing about:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle has \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/06/29/yes-virginia-employers-will-drop-coverage/\" target=\"_blank\">a piece this morning\u003c/a>, with a link to\u003ca href=\"http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/How_US_health_care_reform_will_affect_employee_benefits_2813\" target=\"_blank\"> a report in McKinsey & Company\u003c/a>, which suggests: YES, given the opportunity, employers will stop offering coverage. 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