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	<title>HealthyCal &#187; health reform</title>
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		<title>Low-income Californians fear health reform won&#8217;t deliver for them</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As President Barack Obama struggles to implement -- and defend -- the health care reform he signed last year, he is finding that the public does not understand how the program is supposed to work, and based on what they do know, many voters doubt the overhaul will help them in the end. 

It turns out this is true not only for middle class voters who already have insurance but, at least in California, also for low-income, uninsured people for whom the new law holds the most promise. Many of them are confused about the law's details and fear it could make their ability to access care, often portrayed as desperate, even worse. 

And the centerpiece of the law -- the so-called "individual mandate" requiring everyone to obtain insurance coverage, seems to be no less controversial among the poor than it is among middle-income and affluent people. ]]></description>
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		<title>3.4 million Californians would get coverage through federal reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 3.4 million Californians who would otherwise be without health insurance will have coverage by 2016 if the federal health reform approved last year is implemented on schedule, according to new research published in the journal Health Affairs. The boost in coverage would mean that 96 percent of Californians under age 65 who are legal residents in the U.S. would have some form of private or public health insurance, according to the article, by Peter Long, president and chief executive officer of the Blue Shield of California Foundation, and Jonathan Gruber, a health economics expert and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]]></description>
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		<title>New rules require insurers to justify rate increases</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration has rolled out new rules requiring health insurers to justify any annual rate increases of more than 10 percent. The proposed regulations, unveiled Tuesday by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, represent an escalation of federal involvement in a field historically left to the states.
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		<title>Republicans will find it harder to repeal health reform than it was to campaign against it</title>
		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/2435</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 02:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newly ascended Republicans in Congress say one of their first goals will be to repeal the health care reform law Democrats in Congress and President Barack Obama enacted in March. But that task is likely to prove more difficult than they believe, or at least harder than Republican politicians are letting on to their supporters. The bill's parts, it appears, are far more popular than the idea of a big, federally engineered overhaul of health care. See Daniel Weintraub's analysis.]]></description>
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		<title>State opens new plan for people denied health coverage</title>
		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/2366</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California opened the doors Monday on the first major piece of federal health reform to roll out  here, a new state-run insurance pool for people who have been denied or priced out of private coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions.]]></description>
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		<title>Foster kids won&#8217;t get same benefits as other young adults through health reform</title>
		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/2280</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents across the country can put their 20-something kids back on their private health insurance thanks to health reform laws that rolled out last month But thousands of young adults will not have that opportunity: foster children who were raised in the care and custody of the state. Megan Baier has the story.]]></description>
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		<title>Health reform changes rolling out this week</title>
		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/2224</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>By Daniel Weintraub</strong>
Six months after Congress and President Barack Obama overhauled the nation’s health care laws, some of the first major provisions are set to take effect later this week.
The one change the most people will probably notice first is a provision requiring insurers to cover children until the age of 26. 
An estimated one million young adults between the ages of 19 and 25 are uninsured in California today, and many of them will be eligible for coverage on their parents’ policies.
And unlike current rules, which require children to be dependents and in school full time in&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Local grants will aim to transform communities, improve health</title>
		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/2088</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little known part of the federal health reform enacted earlier this year aims to improve health by improving the conditions under which people live. Part of a planned $15 billion investment in prevention programs, community transformation grants will provide money to clean up neighborhoods, rejuvenate neglected parks, and expand access to healthy foods. Megan Baier has the story.]]></description>
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		<title>Promotores could see boost from federal health reform</title>
		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/2054</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Health Report]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[California is preparing for a major expansion of support and funding for <em>promotores </em>– grass roots health workers who work within their own communities to reach out to rural, remote and otherwise underserved populations. Federal health reform includes $15 billion for prevention programs, including <em>promotores</em>, and California will be competing for a share of that money.]]></description>
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		<title>High-risk insurance pool to start coverage in September</title>
		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/2048</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California's newly expanded program for people who can't get insurance because of pre-existing medical conditions is about to open for business. The program, one of the first pieces of federal health reform to be implemented here, is already accepting requests for applications, which will be available later this month. Coverage will begin in September.
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