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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_4625\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/California-Coast.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-4625\" title=\"(alycat: Flickr)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/California-Coast-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"(alycat: Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(alycat: Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Admit it. The Supreme Court's \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/29/audiotranscripts-all-the-supreme-courts-oral-arguments-on-the-health-law/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/29/audiotranscripts-all-the-supreme-courts-oral-arguments-on-the-health-law/\" target=\"_blank\">scrutiny\u003c/a> of the health care overhaul has piqued your interest. You've read or heard stories about the oral arguments. 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Presuming the law goes forward, California is in a better position than most states to meet the 2014 full implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just under 22 minutes, you can get up to speed on where California stands. So put on your headphones and listen to the following stories:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California's Public Plan for Health Insurance\u003c/strong>: Keeping your health coverage during a recession is tough. No job means no insurance. But part of implementing the Affordable Care Act calls for the creation of state exchanges for health insurance plans that are portable and not tied to work. 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Instead of paying for every doctor or hospital visit as it does now, the state pays insurers a set fee to meet the patient's medical needs. State health officials see managed care as a cheaper and more efficient way to run the program, and some for-profit insurance companies see good business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject width=\"335\" height=\"85\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201105310850a.xml\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\">\u003cembed width=\"335\" height=\"85\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\" flashvars=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201105310850a.xml\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Venture Capital Flows to Cost-Effective Health Care Companies\u003c/strong>: Hospitals and doctors are facing a lot of heat these days to clean up their act. 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State health officials see managed care as a cheaper and more efficient way to run the program, and some for-profit insurance companies see good business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject width=\"335\" height=\"85\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201105310850a.xml\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\">\u003cembed width=\"335\" height=\"85\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\" flashvars=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201105310850a.xml\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Venture Capital Flows to Cost-Effective Health Care Companies\u003c/strong>: Hospitals and doctors are facing a lot of heat these days to clean up their act. 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The federal health law also forces them to pay more attention to how much they're spending -- and all of this has a direct effect on the kinds of investments Silicon Valley venture capitalists are betting on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject width=\"335\" height=\"85\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201111111630b.xml\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\">\u003cembed width=\"335\" height=\"85\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\" flashvars=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201111111630b.xml\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, if you still want more analysis of the Supreme Court hearings this week, here's a 30 minute video from \u003ca title=\"http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2012/March/29/webcast-supreme-court-health-law.aspx\" href=\"http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2012/March/29/webcast-supreme-court-health-law.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiser Health News\u003c/a>. 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Those two changes are the popular provisions that both require insurers to offer insurance to applicants with pre-existing conditions and also requires insurers to charge the same rates to people who are roughly the same age, regardless of their health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those changes should go, the Obama Administration argued, because without the individual mandate, people might wait until they're sick before they signed up for coverage. Not enough people would be in the \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/27/what-impact-will-the-courts-decision-have-on-california/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/27/what-impact-will-the-courts-decision-have-on-california/\" target=\"_blank\">health insurance pool\u003c/a> to spread risk. Ruin could come to the insurance market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short the Court faces three scenarios if it strikes down the individual mandate:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Is the mandate \"severable\" from the rest of the ACA--can the Court strike down the mandate while upholding the rest of the law?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If the mandate is stricken, should the two other changes to health insurers be struck down with it, leaving the rest of the health care law to stand?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Is the mandate such an integral part of the overhaul that the entire law should be cast aside?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cdiv>From the \u003ca title=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/severability-showdown-justices-grapple-with-laws-viability-without-a-mandate/2012/03/28/gIQAPEUfgS_blog.html\" href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/severability-showdown-justices-grapple-with-laws-viability-without-a-mandate/2012/03/28/gIQAPEUfgS_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post\u003c/a>:\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Those in the Courtroom describe the justices as wary of overturning the entire law, but torn on how, exactly, they could pick and choose which parts of the law would fall should they strike the mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SCOTUSBlog’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/03/first-severability-argument-update/\">mid-argument update\u003c/a>, from Kevin Russell, finds hints of concern from liberal justices that the mandate could fall:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"... The Court was skeptical that the whole act should fall if the individual mandate is invalid. But there wasn’t any clear indication of how far the Court would go. It seemed like there wasn’t much question, except from Justice Sotomayor that the community rating and mandatory issue provisions would fail, that is the government’s position. The fact that the liberals were very engaged, particularly Justice Kagan, may show that they are very worried that the mandate is going to be held unconstitutional.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca title=\"http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPREME_COURT_HEALTH_CARE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" href=\"http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPREME_COURT_HEALTH_CARE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" target=\"_blank\"> Associated Press\u003c/a> reported that Paul Clement, the lawyer for the states arguing to overturn the health care law as a whole, said the court would leave a \"hollow shell\" if it turned aside the individual mandate and the two other insurance provisions. \"The rest of the law cannot stand,\" he insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Antonin Scalia suggested many members of Congress might not have voted for the bill without the central provisions, and he said the court should not go through each and every page to sort out what stays and what goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those keeping track of the three scenarios outlined above-- the Administration argued that if the individual mandate is overturned, that two other provisions must go; attorney Clement argued for some states who say the whole ACA should go and the Supreme Court appointed an attorney, H. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The constitutionality of the Medicaid expansion is also before the Court today.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_4448\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/SupremeCourt_Image_KaiserHealthNews_03282012.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-4448\" title=\"(Image: Kaiser Health News)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/SupremeCourt_Image_KaiserHealthNews_03282012-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"(Image: Kaiser Health News)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Image: Kaiser Health News)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>WASHINGTON (AP) — The heart of the Obama administration's health care overhaul hanging in the balance, the Supreme Court is turning to whether the rest of the law can survive if the crucial individual insurance requirement is struck down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justices also will spend part of Wednesday, the last of three days of arguments over the health law, considering a challenge by 26 states to the expansion of the Medicaid program for low-income Americans, an important feature toward the overall goal of extending health insurance to an additional 30 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first two days of fast-paced and extended arguments have shown that the conservative justices have serious questions about Congress' authority to require virtually every American to carry insurance or pay a penalty.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of the case will affect nearly all Americans and the ruling, expected in June, also could play a role in the presidential election campaign. 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He and Justice Samuel Alito appeared likely to join with Justice Clarence Thomas, the only justice to ask no questions, to vote to strike down the key provision of the overhaul. The four Democratic appointees seemed ready to vote to uphold it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy at one point said that allowing the government mandate would \"change the relationship\" between the government and U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do you not have a heavy burden of justification to show authorization under the Constitution\" for the individual mandate? asked Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At another point, however, he also acknowledged the complexity of resolving the issue of paying for America's health care needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it is true that if most questions in life are matters of degree ... the young person who is uninsured is uniquely proximately very close to affecting the rates of insurance and the costs of providing medical care in a way that is not true in other industries. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The constitutionality of the Medicaid expansion is also before the Court today.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_4448\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/SupremeCourt_Image_KaiserHealthNews_03282012.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-4448\" title=\"(Image: Kaiser Health News)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/SupremeCourt_Image_KaiserHealthNews_03282012-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"(Image: Kaiser Health News)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Image: Kaiser Health News)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>WASHINGTON (AP) — The heart of the Obama administration's health care overhaul hanging in the balance, the Supreme Court is turning to whether the rest of the law can survive if the crucial individual insurance requirement is struck down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justices also will spend part of Wednesday, the last of three days of arguments over the health law, considering a challenge by 26 states to the expansion of the Medicaid program for low-income Americans, an important feature toward the overall goal of extending health insurance to an additional 30 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first two days of fast-paced and extended arguments have shown that the conservative justices have serious questions about Congress' authority to require virtually every American to carry insurance or pay a penalty.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of the case will affect nearly all Americans and the ruling, expected in June, also could play a role in the presidential election campaign. Obama and congressional Democrats pushed for the law's passage two years ago, while Republicans, including all the GOP presidential candidates, are strongly opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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If they do, then they will have to decide if the rest of the law stands or falls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The states and the small business group opposing the law say the insurance requirement is central to the whole undertaking and should take the rest of the law down with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration argues that the only other provisions the court should kill in the event the mandate is stricken are insurance revisions that require insurers to cover people regardless of existing medical problems and limit how much they can charge in premiums based on a person's age or health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal appeals court in Atlanta that struck down the insurance requirement said the rest of the law can remain in place, a position that will be argued by a private lawyer appointed by the justices, H. 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He and Justice Samuel Alito appeared likely to join with Justice Clarence Thomas, the only justice to ask no questions, to vote to strike down the key provision of the overhaul. The four Democratic appointees seemed ready to vote to uphold it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy at one point said that allowing the government mandate would \"change the relationship\" between the government and U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do you not have a heavy burden of justification to show authorization under the Constitution\" for the individual mandate? asked Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At another point, however, he also acknowledged the complexity of resolving the issue of paying for America's health care needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it is true that if most questions in life are matters of degree ... the young person who is uninsured is uniquely proximately very close to affecting the rates of insurance and the costs of providing medical care in a way that is not true in other industries. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_4417\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/LongBeachSunset_RonniePittman_Flickr_03272012.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-4417\" title=\"(Ronnie Pitman: Flickr)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/LongBeachSunset_RonniePittman_Flickr_03272012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Ronnie Pitman: Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last year as the myriad court cases about the federal health care law have made their way to the highest court in the land, California has spent that time moving ahead aggressively in implementing the \u003ca title=\"http://www.healthcare.gov/law/full/\" href=\"http://www.healthcare.gov/law/full/\" target=\"_blank\">Affordable Care Act\u003c/a> (ACA). California was the first state to pass legislation to set up a \u003ca title=\"http://www.healthexchange.ca.gov/Pages/Default.aspx\" href=\"http://www.healthexchange.ca.gov/Pages/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">health insurance exchange\u003c/a>. The state also set up a new high risk pool so people with pre-existing conditions can get health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what happens if the Supreme Court declares the individual mandate unconstitutional? Or overturns the entire law? What can still go forward in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer depends in part upon whom you ask. But for the most part California -- like all states -- will find it tough to move forward without the backing of the federal law.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's start with today's question -- is \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/27/supreme-court-justices-sharply-question-individual-mandate/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/27/supreme-court-justices-sharply-question-individual-mandate/\" target=\"_blank\">the individual mandate\u003c/a> constitutional? The purpose of the individual mandate is to get everyone into the health insurance pool, to spread risk. If the Supreme Court overturns the mandate, but leaves the rest of the ACA intact, the big question is: \"Will the health insurance exchange go forward?\" The exchange is a marketplace the state is establishing for individuals and small companies to buy health insurance. This market currently sports higher health insurance premiums because these groups don't have the same purchasing power as large employers, for example. But without a mandate, there are numerous problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, one of the ACA's most popular provisions is its requirement that insurance companies can no longer disqualify people with pre-existing conditions. Bill Kramer is Executive Director for National Health Policy at the \u003ca title=\"http://www.pbgh.org/index.php\" href=\"http://www.pbgh.org/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Business Group on Health\u003c/a>, a coalition of large employers that is working to improve health care quality and reduce cost. He says if the mandate was overturned, \"a fair number of people would choose not to get coverage, and you'd end up with the sickest people continuing to get coverage. It would be a high cost risk pool in individual markets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed. In January the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research released a \u003ca title=\"http://www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu/pubs/files/calsim_mandate.pdf\" href=\"http://www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu/pubs/files/calsim_mandate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">study [PDF] \u003c/a>that estimated one million fewer Californians would obtain insurance without the individual mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"http://www.chhs.ca.gov/Documents/SecretaryDooleyBioPDF.pdf\" href=\"http://www.chhs.ca.gov/Documents/SecretaryDooleyBioPDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Diana Dooley\u003c/a> is California's Secretary of Health and Human Services Agency and also serves on the exchange board. She said whether the exchange could operate if the mandate were struck down is a \"question that cannot be answered.\" Still, she sounded cautiously optimistic in an interview. She pointed out that if the rest of the ACA is upheld, the law includes subsidies to help people purchase insurance. \"If there are subsidies,\" she told me, \"if there is a way to make health insurance more affordable for the uninsured and spread the cost more fairly ... we could still have a robust exchange.\" But that's a big \"if.\" It's unclear if the federal government would be able to provide subsidies if the individual mandate is overturned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one other popular part of the ACA already enacted which would still go forward is children staying on their parents' health plan until age 26. Pre-existing conditions exclusions for children have already been done away with and, presumably, would also go forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With one exception, every county in California has enacted a \"\u003ca title=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Pages/lihp.aspx\" href=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Pages/lihp.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Low Income Health Program\u003c/a>\" (LIHP). This \"Bridge to Reform\" is intended to help the poor who are not eligible for Medi-Cal obtain coverage until 2014 when the ACA goes into effect. At that point, they will be eligible for Medi-Cal coverage through an expansion legislated by the ACA. 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