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Local law enforcement agencies are cracking down on students who constantly skip school.  Kern High School District police officers hit the streets Wednesday to round up teens not in class.  A team of officers was given a list of 120 kids who are habitually absent from school.  They go out several times a year to try to catch truant students.  Kids and parents can be taken to court and fined if the kids continue to miss school.  It can also result in jail time, community service, and parenting classes. A new report shows building the high speed train over the Grapevine instead of through the Antelope Valley could save four billion dollars, according to the Bakersfield Californian.  Right now, the plan is to go from Los Angeles to Bakersfield through Palmdale.  The Grapevine route also could shave 9 minutes off the travel time between Los Angeles and San Francisco. As Bakersfield continues to grow, the city council moved forward in expanding city wards.  Five concepts were presented to the public showing how the wards would increase in size due to the city's increasing population.  Two of those concepts were shot down, leaving three ward concepts left for the public and city to decide on. A BBQ benefiting the Bakersfield Homeless Center brought in big bucks Wednesday.  The fundraiser was held right across the street from the KGET studios.  TV 17 teamed up with several local companies to serve 5-dollar meals.  We served burritos for breakfast.  Then for lunch it was burgers, chips and a drink.  Nearly 17 thousand dollars was raised for the Bakersfield Homeless Center. Los Angeles County's longtime Sheriff is facing one of the toughest attacks of his 13-year term.  The American Civil Liberties Union wants Lee Baca to resign.  The organization says he looked the other way while his sprawling jail network became co-opted by corrupt deputies who routinely abuse inmates.

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Federal

Although the House vote to repeal health care reform is symbolic only (given the Democratic Senate and White House), it is a necessary first step leading to committee by committee action over the coming months on discrete provisions of health care . One such item, medical malpractice liability reform, got a hearing last week before the House Judiciary Committee as Republicans paraded several witnesses before the committee to showcase the need for legislation from the physicians’ perspective. Since it is very unlikely that the American Medical Association’s wish list would ever become law, the best result from the committee process would be a bill that skirts the more controversial items (e.g., cap on damages) and focuses on attainable and meaningful reforms, such as health courts, stronger pre-trial evaluation and settlement pathways.  This would be a path Aetna would strongly support.

States

ARIZONA: Governor Jan Brewer has announced that she will request a waiver from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services so that the state can set Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) eligibility below levels mandated by the PPACA. In March 2010, Governor Brewer signed a fiscal year 2011 budget that stripped funding for the state’s Children’s Health Insurance program (KidsCare) and cut 5 million from AHCCCS, effectively repealing an expansion of AHCCCS to childless adults approved by voters in 2000. However, following enactment of the PPACA, the state rescinded the scheduled cuts to comply with the law’s “maintenance of efforts” (MOE) requirement. The MOE requirement prohibits a state from having eligibility standards, methodologies, or procedures for adults that are more restrictive than those in effect on March 23, 2010, until a health insurance exchange in the state is fully operational, and for all children in Medicaid and CHIP through September 30, 2019. The MOE requirement provides an exception for non-pregnant, non-disabled adults earning more than 133 percent of the federal poverty level if a state is projected to have a budget deficit. Arizona faces a mid-year budget deficit estimated at 5 million. A .4 billion shortfall is projected for the 2012 fiscal year.

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