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"content": "\u003cp>Californians may soon vote to legalize recreational marijuana, which means edible products containing the drug will be more widely available and could accidentally fall into the wrong hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 64 establishes warning labeling and packaging requirements for edible products containing marijuana. But public health advocates say the goodies, when taken out of their packaging, look just like regular candy and baked goods and could still easily be consumed by mistake or in excessive amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Edibles are a huge problem,\" said Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. \"They should not be made to look like candy. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, unmarked gummy candy containing marijuana sickened 19 people, who ate it unknowingly when it was served at a Quinceañera party in San Francisco. They were all taken to area hospitals and later released after experiencing symptoms including rapid heart rate, high blood pressure, dilated pupils, dizziness, light-headedness, nausea, lethargy and confusion, according to San Francisco Department of Public Health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirteen of the those people were children ranging in age from 6 to 18, the health department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2534480\" target=\"_blank\">2016 study\u003c/a> tracing admissions at Children's Hospital Colorado found that more kids were treated for accidental pot ingestion after legalization, increasing from 1.2 children per 100,000 population two years prior to legalization to 2.3 per 100,000 population two years after legalization, the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em> reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Colorado's new 'universal symbol' labeling requirements\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Colorado, where marijuana is already legal, officials have just beefed up their warnings on edible marijuana products. Starting Saturday, edible marijuana products in Colorado must feature a diamond-shaped stamp with the letters THC on the packaging and even on the edible items themselves. THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That way, the new \"universal symbol\" for food products containing marijuana will be seen on the products even after they are removed from packaging, the AP reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's better than nothing,\" said Glantz, of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said a symbol right on the edible product itself may help some adults who read and understand what THC means to avoid accidentally consuming the product. But he said he doesn't think it will do much to prevent small children from accidentally eating the products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado also has new packaging rules for edible marijuana products that are not possible to stamp. For example, marijuana containing sodas must come in small single-serve bottles, AP reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marijuana legalization advocates say legalizing and regulating edible products will make them safer than when they were sold in the underground market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The imposition of sensible regulations on the cannabis industry, coupled with better public safety information and greater consumer responsibility and accountability, are the best strategies to address cannabis-specific health concerns due to the inadvertent ingestion or over-ingestion of edible products,” said Paul Armentano, deputy director of NORML, a marijuana legalization advocacy group based in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those using marijuana for medical purposes, edible products can also be problematic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think edible marijuana is one of the least desirable ways to use the product,\" said Dr. Laurie Vollen, a medical marijuana specialist at Naturally Healing MD in Albany, CA. \"It is much more difficult to titrate, the THC is metabolized into a more sedating, longer acting and more psychoactive metabolite than regular THC, and it is where people get into trouble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For patients who prefer an edible form of marijuana, she recommends tinctures or pills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hope California figures out how to prevent … mishaps,\" she said. \"As a physician, I don't recommend any kind of candy, cookie, or sweet with cannabis. Sweets are not healthy to begin with.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In accountable care organizations, or \u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/news/aco-accountable-care-organization-faq/\" target=\"_blank\">ACOs\u003c/a>, physicians, hospitals and an insurer work together to coordinate care, control spending and share savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The for-profit insurer will also open a research lab in the San Francisco area early next year offering researchers at the state-run health system access to a huge national database of patient records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collaboration comes as hospital systems and insurers are under increasing pressure from employers, government health programs and their competitors to forge new alliances aimed at improving care and cutting costs. 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"content": "\u003cp>An overwhelming majority of Americans favor government action to restrain prescription drug prices, according to a poll released Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eighty-two percent of those polled said they want Medicare to negotiate prices with the companies, which Congress does not allow. Seventy-eight percent favored limiting the amount companies can charge for high-cost drugs, such as those that fight cancer or hepatitis, according to \u003ca href=\"http://kff.org/health-reform/report/kaiser-health-tracking-poll-september-2016\" target=\"_blank\">the poll\u003c/a> from the Kaiser Family Foundation. And more than two-thirds want to let Americans buy drugs imported from Canada. Support is strong no matter the political party. (KHN is an editorially independent program of the foundation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The views come as the skyrocketing prices of some drugs are under intense scrutiny, with new evidence showing massive price hikes by some companies. Some members of Congress have called for investigations, but there is no consensus on how to effectively rein in the cost, particularly for lifesaving and unique treatments such as the EpiPen for people with deadly allergies and the hepatitis C-curing drug Sovaldi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll found that while a majority of Americans still believed prescription drugs developed over the past two decades have improved lives, respect is dwindling. In 2008, 73 percent of Americans said the medicines had this positive effect, but that number dropped to 62 percent in August 2015. The new poll found that now 56 percent of Americans consider the drugs beneficial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cost could be one reason why the share of Americans who say prescription drugs have made the lives of people in the U.S. better is declining,” the pollsters wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll found that three-quarters of Americans considered drug costs unreasonable. Despite the perceived burden, the poll also discovered that 73 percent of people taking prescription medicines said it had been easy to afford their drugs. People in fair or poor health and those taking four or more drugs were more likely to say they were having trouble affording prescriptions than more healthy people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the policy ideas the respondents were asked to consider, the most popular was requiring drug companies to explain how they set drug prices, with 86 percent support. Two-thirds of Americans favored Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s suggestion to create an independent group to oversee drug pricing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other ideas were less popular, including two restricting consumers. A minority of those polled favored eliminating prescription drug advertisements, which has been suggested to quell the aggressive marketing companies do directly to consumers. Only 4 in 10 Americans favored requiring people to pay more if they don’t choose the least expensive version of a drug to treat their illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the poll also found that only a quarter of Americans were aware that the number of people without health insurance is at a record low. Just 9 percent went without coverage last year, according to the U.S. Census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey found that the country is evenly divided about the success of the insurance marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act to assist people without employer or government coverage. People in states that are running their own marketplaces were more positive about them than are people in states that rely on the federal website, healthcare.gov.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey was conducted between Sept. 14 and 20 among 1,204 people, using both land lines and cell phones. The margin of error was +/- 3 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiser Health News\u003c/a>, an editorially independent program of the \u003ca href=\"http://kff.org/\" target=\"\">Kaiser Family Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>From California, with its counterculture heritage, to the fishing ports and mill towns of Maine, millions of Americans in nine states have a chance to vote Nov. 8 on expanding legal access to marijuana. Collectively, the ballot measures amount to the closest the U.S. has come to a national referendum on the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five states — Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada — will consider legalizing the recreational use of pot. Three others — Florida, Arkansas and North Dakota — will decide whether to permit marijuana for medical purposes. 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"content": "\u003cp>Many people take for granted the addition of fluoride into public drinking water systems that aims to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/factsheets/70-years.htm\" target=\"_blank\">prevent tooth decay\u003c/a>. It’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/factsheets/70-years.htm\" target=\"_blank\">seven-decade-old public health effort\u003c/a>. But it’s not nearly as universally accepted as one might think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least seven cities or towns across the country debated it just this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">For example, \u003c/span>\u003ca style=\"line-height: 1.5\" href=\"http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/news/opinion/editorial-fluoride-vote-acknowledges-passion-yield/nrsfP/\" target=\"_blank\">Wellington, Fla.\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">, decided to add fluoride back into the water in July after the city council voted two years ago to remove it. 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It \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/oralhealth/oral_health_disparities/\">benefits\u003c/a> people who don’t have money to go to a dentist or don’t have any insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some question the need for continued fluoridation, especially as products such as toothpaste and rinses containing fluoride are available, and because the chemical’s levels vary and indications of harm are not always clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/philippe-grandjean/\" target=\"_blank\">Philippe Grandjean\u003c/a>, an adjunct professor at Harvard University School of Public Health, has authored a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Grandjean%20P%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=22820538\" target=\"_blank\">couple of studies\u003c/a> questioning the need for the added fluoride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our dental health is clearly much less dependent on fluoride in drinking water than way back when this important public health intervention was initiated,” Grandjean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/fluoridated-drinking-water/\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard Public Health article\u003c/a>, Grandjean commented about the need for more research about populations that may be vulnerable to the mineral and the proper dose of it in drinking water. 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Tomar from the American Association of Public Health Dentistry and Bruce Donoff, dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in \u003ca href=\"https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2016/04/Fluoride-letter-Frantsve-Hawley.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">one of the letters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New studies are published almost every year that bring up concerns about fluoridation in drinking water, linking the intake with various \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491930/\" target=\"_blank\">developmental\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-015-0003-1\" target=\"_blank\">issues\u003c/a> and even \u003ca href=\"http://www.webmd.com/women/news/20150225/fluoride-in-drinking-water-tied-to-higher-rates-of-underactive-thyroid\" target=\"_blank\">thyroid problems\u003c/a>, issues that Osmunson also brought up. 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The Department of Health and Human Services in April 2015 released new recommendations for fluoride levels in drinking water, updating and replacing the level in place since 1962 in order to reflect the fact that Americans now have more sources of fluoride in toothpaste, mouthwashes and other products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other towns continue to wrestle with the issue. In July, the commissioners of \u003ca href=\"http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2016/jul/20/soddy-daisy-nixes-water-fluoridation/376861/\" target=\"_blank\">Soddy-Daisy, Tenn.\u003c/a>, voted to stop adding fluoride and \u003ca href=\"http://www.houstonherald.com/news/council-to-leave-fluoride-in-water-supply-discusses-ordinances/article_aa9d7178-4dbb-11e6-b57c-8bbf000939c4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Houston’s\u003c/a> city council chose to leave it in. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Many people take for granted the addition of fluoride into public drinking water systems that aims to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/factsheets/70-years.htm\" target=\"_blank\">prevent tooth decay\u003c/a>. It’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/factsheets/70-years.htm\" target=\"_blank\">seven-decade-old public health effort\u003c/a>. But it’s not nearly as universally accepted as one might think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least seven cities or towns across the country debated it just this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">For example, \u003c/span>\u003ca style=\"line-height: 1.5\" href=\"http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/news/opinion/editorial-fluoride-vote-acknowledges-passion-yield/nrsfP/\" target=\"_blank\">Wellington, Fla.\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">, decided to add fluoride back into the water in July after the city council voted two years ago to remove it. Across the country in \u003c/span>\u003ca style=\"line-height: 1.5\" href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/5767942-181/healdsburg-voters-will-again-decide\" target=\"_blank\">Healdsburg, Calif.\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">, voters will revisit a ballot question in November regarding whether to stop adding the mineral to the water supply.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has always been periodic discussion,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.dentistry.uiowa.edu/steven-m-levy\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Levy\u003c/a>, a dentistry professor at the University of Iowa. Levy is involved in an Iowa-based longitudinal study that tracks fluoride intake and its effects on children’s bones. “We are seeing more challenges now because of the communication explosion with the internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate started well before 1945 when Grand Rapids, Mich., became the first U.S. city to add fluoride to its water supply. In the decades since, opposition usually stems from studies linking fluoride intake by children with lower IQs, higher rates of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and potential toxicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, fluoridation has become a fairly common practice, with about 74 percent of the population receiving fluoridated water from community water systems, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/statistics/fsgrowth.htm.http:/www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/statistics/fsgrowth.htm.\" target=\"_blank\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>. But the intervention, which is considered by the CDC to be one of the 10 top public health achievements of the 20th century and backed by the American Dental Association and the World Health Organization, also continues to raise grass roots concerns. These \u003ca href=\"http://fluoridealert.org/\" target=\"_blank\">arguments\u003c/a> range from casting fluoride as unnecessary and ineffective to efforts to paint the mineral as “mass medication” and a “damaging environmental pollutant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fluoridation is not safe or cost-effective,” said Bill Osmunson, director of the Fluoride Action Network, a national organization against fluoridation of water supplies, adding that people should be given the freedom of choice so they can avoid ingesting excess fluoride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Wellington, Mayor \u003ca href=\"http://www.wellingtonfl.gov/government/village-council/councilwoman-anne-gerwig#ad-image-1\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Gerwig\u003c/a> often fields angry emails on this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I watch the videos that they email me, I read the information they send me,” Gerwig said. Gerwig has no background in science, but she read studies and fact-checked the claims being made by the town’s residents. Gerwig said she decided to support fluoridation after she found scientific consensus about the benefits of fluoridation in preventing tooth decay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC, for instance, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/basics/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">considers\u003c/a> water fluoridation to be the most cost-effective method of delivering fluoride to all, reducing tooth decay by 25 percent in children and adults.\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/factsheets/70-years.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Tooth decay\u003c/a> is still one of the most common chronic conditions among children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A big thing about community water fluoridation is that it’s a passive intervention, you don’t really have to do anything other than drink tap water,” said Katherine Weno, oral health director at the CDC. “You don’t have to buy a product or access to a dental professional. It \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/oralhealth/oral_health_disparities/\">benefits\u003c/a> people who don’t have money to go to a dentist or don’t have any insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some question the need for continued fluoridation, especially as products such as toothpaste and rinses containing fluoride are available, and because the chemical’s levels vary and indications of harm are not always clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/philippe-grandjean/\" target=\"_blank\">Philippe Grandjean\u003c/a>, an adjunct professor at Harvard University School of Public Health, has authored a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Grandjean%20P%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=22820538\" target=\"_blank\">couple of studies\u003c/a> questioning the need for the added fluoride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our dental health is clearly much less dependent on fluoride in drinking water than way back when this important public health intervention was initiated,” Grandjean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/fluoridated-drinking-water/\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard Public Health article\u003c/a>, Grandjean commented about the need for more research about populations that may be vulnerable to the mineral and the proper dose of it in drinking water. In response, the article drew multiple critical \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/letters-in-response-to-is-fluoridated-drinking-water-safe/\" target=\"_blank\">letters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The article misrepresents the current state of the science of community water fluoridation, and does not provide a fair and balanced perspective,” wrote Francis Kim and Scott L. Tomar from the American Association of Public Health Dentistry and Bruce Donoff, dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in \u003ca href=\"https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2016/04/Fluoride-letter-Frantsve-Hawley.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">one of the letters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New studies are published almost every year that bring up concerns about fluoridation in drinking water, linking the intake with various \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491930/\" target=\"_blank\">developmental\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-015-0003-1\" target=\"_blank\">issues\u003c/a> and even \u003ca href=\"http://www.webmd.com/women/news/20150225/fluoride-in-drinking-water-tied-to-higher-rates-of-underactive-thyroid\" target=\"_blank\">thyroid problems\u003c/a>, issues that Osmunson also brought up. Weno and Levy said those studies were performed in places where natural fluoride levels are higher and where residents may get fluoride through milk or salt rather than water. Excessive fluoride intake does have health implications — \u003ca href=\"http://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/opinions_layman/fluoridation/en/\" target=\"_blank\">a problem\u003c/a> commonly found in places with high concentrations of natural fluoride such as China, India and Africa. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nap.edu/read/11571/chapter/2#3\" target=\"_blank\">Most Americans\u003c/a> receive water with low natural levels of fluoride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials also monitor and review what is appropriate. The Department of Health and Human Services in April 2015 released new recommendations for fluoride levels in drinking water, updating and replacing the level in place since 1962 in order to reflect the fact that Americans now have more sources of fluoride in toothpaste, mouthwashes and other products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other towns continue to wrestle with the issue. In July, the commissioners of \u003ca href=\"http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2016/jul/20/soddy-daisy-nixes-water-fluoridation/376861/\" target=\"_blank\">Soddy-Daisy, Tenn.\u003c/a>, voted to stop adding fluoride and \u003ca href=\"http://www.houstonherald.com/news/council-to-leave-fluoride-in-water-supply-discusses-ordinances/article_aa9d7178-4dbb-11e6-b57c-8bbf000939c4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Houston’s\u003c/a> city council chose to leave it in. 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But opponents say the health care funding is part of a “special interest tax grab.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure doesn’t earmark exactly how much of that money should go to doctors or other health providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the new Medi-Cal funding would be doled out through negotiations during California’s yearly budget process. Presumably, the bulk of it would go to groups that provide and administrate care in Medi-Cal; doctors, health plans, clinics and hospitals, many of them powerful groups who could influence Capitol discussions about how to use the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s payments to doctors treating Medi-Cal patients are among the lowest in the nation. After Rhode Island and New Jersey, California’s average payments in Medi-Cal, its version of Medicaid, are the lowest, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/medicaid-to-medicare-fee-index/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22All%20Services%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiser Family Foundation analysis\u003c/a>. The analysis looked at the portion of Medi-Cal where the state reimburses providers directly for care, not the majority of the program involving insurance companies. 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The analysis looked at the portion of Medi-Cal where the state reimburses providers directly for care, not the majority of the program involving insurance companies. (Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One consumer advocate says uncertainty about how the Medi-Cal money would be used actually is one of the strengths of Proposition 56.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It allows us to have the public process and have it be policy-driven rather than by some formula that’s locked in the constitution,” said Anthony Wright of the consumer advocacy coalition Health Access California. 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"content": "\u003cp>With major insurers retreating from the federal health law’s marketplaces, California’s insurance commissioner said he supports a public option at the state level that could bolster competition and potentially serve as a test for the controversial idea nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we should strongly consider a public option in California,” Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said in a recent interview with California Healthline. “It will require a lot of careful thought and work, but I think it’s something that ought to be on the table because we continue to see this consolidation in an already consolidated health insurance market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, President Barack Obama and other prominent Democrats have revived the idea of the public option in response to insurers such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/29/aetna-unitedhealth-pulling-out-of-obamacare-leavin/\" target=\"_blank\">Aetna Inc. and UnitedHealth Group Inc. pulling back\u003c/a> from the individual insurance market and many consumers facing double-digit rate hikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notion of a publicly run health plan competing against private insurers in government exchanges was \u003ca href=\"http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/29/6/1117.full\" target=\"_blank\">hotly debated but ultimately dropped\u003c/a> from the Affordable Care Act when it passed in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health insurers have long opposed the idea, and other critics fear it would lead to a full government-run system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the discussion surrounding a public option, however, has focused on a nationwide plan, not one emanating from a state. In July, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said she would “pursue efforts to give Americans in every state in the country the choice of a public-option insurance plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones offered few specifics on what a public option might look like in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to begin to prejudge it,” said Jones, an elected Democrat serving his second term as head of the state Department of Insurance, one of two insurance regulators in California. “I don’t know whether you would start in certain areas of the state and expand from there. I think there would be significant reservations about the state running it. There would be a wide variety of governance models you could come up with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politically, the proposal may gain more traction in Sacramento than Washington with Democrats firmly in control of the state Legislature and many lawmakers eager to go beyond the boundaries of the federal health law. Depending on what form it took, a public option would require state legislation, some type of federal approval and some source of funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of a California-style public option drew mixed reaction. Some consumer groups say they welcome another run at the public option after a disappointing outcome in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re certainly very interested,” said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California. “This is something we advocated for in its most ambitious form during the debate over health reform and there are elements of the proposal that could be adapted for California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some health-policy experts questioned whether the proposal would backfire, ultimately reducing competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what would compel other insurers to stay in the market, so the public option could quickly become the only option,” said Katherine Hempstead, who directs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s work on health insurance coverage. “I think that is only a clear win when the alternative is nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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There is robust consumer choice so we don’t think we need to mess with something that isn’t broken,” said Nicole Evans, a spokeswoman for the California Association of Health Plans, a trade group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Jones has criticized the lack of competition in Covered California, and more recently he has opposed the mergers proposed by industry giants Anthem Inc. and Aetna Inc., saying they’re anticompetitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthem wants to acquire Cigna, while Aetna is trying to merge with Humana, but the U.S. Justice Department has sued to block both deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California has fared better than many states in terms of insurer competition. Eleven health plans are participating in the state-run exchange for 2017, but UnitedHealth is dropping out after just one year in California’s individual market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer advocates had hoped UnitedHealth would become a strong rival to the state’s four largest insurers. 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