Sacramento Bee: California Is Worried About Losing Health Care 
A new statewide poll found that Golden State supporters of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, outnumber opponents by more than 2 to 1. About two-thirds of Californians say they support the law, including 45 percent who do so strongly, while just 26 percent say they’re against it, according to the poll released late Monday by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies and done for the California Health Care Foundation. (Cadelago, 6/19)

San Jose Mercury News: Poll: Californians Fear Losing Coverage In Obamacare Reform
The poll, by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, comes at a time when a record number of Golden State residents — 65 percent — now support the Affordable Care Act, said Mark DiCamillo, who directs the Berkeley IGS poll. “The breadth of the people who are worried about losing their coverage is quite revealing,’’ said DiCamillo. “It says that even people who are not directly affected by the ACA — for example, people covered through Medicare or other types of coverage — are fearful that somehow their coverage might be’’ impacted. (Seipel, 6/19)

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Capital Public Radio/KXJZ: McClintock Calls For And Mostly Receives Civility At Town Hall Meeting 
It was 105 degrees outside and not much cooler inside as Congressman Tom McClintock opened a town hall meeting in a suit and tie at Jackson High School last night. ... Healthcare was also the subject of many questions. (Moffitt, 6/20)

The Associated Press: High Court Sides With Drugmaker In Plavix Lawsuit
The Supreme Court says hundreds of out-state-residents can’t sue drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. in California state court over adverse reactions to the blood thinner Plavix. The justices ruled 8-1 Monday that there was not a strong enough connection between the claims against the drugmaker and the company’s ties to the state. The ruling is a win for Bristol-Myers Squibb and other companies that want to avoid lawsuits in state courts seen as more favorable to plaintiffs. (6/19)

Politico: Supreme Court Ruling In Drug Case Could Have Big Implications For Product Liability
A Supreme Court decision Monday could make it harder for large groups of plaintiffs to sue corporations in state courts for damages caused by manufacturers' products. Bristol-Myers Squibb prevailed in its effort to get the Supreme Court to limit where patients can seek compensation for harm caused by drugs. But the ruling will echo beyond the pharmaceutical industry to potentially affect any liability case in which consumers allege harm caused by a deficient product, including automobiles, tobacco, food and other mass litigation like consumer claims of financial fraud by a company. It could also affect lawsuits against companies being accused of environmental wrongdoing. (Karlin-Smith, 6/19)

The New York Times: A Dire Weekly Total For The U.S.: 25 Children Killed By Guns
Gunshots are the second leading cause of injury-related death in children, exceeded only by car accidents. In a typical week in the United States, 25 children die from bullet wounds. Between 2012 and 2014, an average of 1,297 children under age 18 died each year from firearm injuries. Aside from deaths in the course of law enforcement and other circumstances, there were an average of 693 homicides, 493 suicides and 82 unintentional deaths annually. (Bakalar, 6/19)

Los Angeles Times: Guns Kill Nearly 1,300 Children In The U.S. Each Year And Send Thousands More To Hospitals
The number of child fatalities related to guns is far higher in the U.S. than in any other high-income country. Another study has reckoned that the U.S. accounts for 91% of all the firearms-related deaths of children under 14 in the world’s 23 richest countries. (Healy, 6/19)

San Jose Mercury News: Facebook's High-Stakes Dilemma Over Suicide Videos
Social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter’s Periscope have made videos simpler for people to share online, but now these companies are in a race against time to respond quickly to posts depicting self harm — before they go viral. Balancing the risks of suicide contagion with free speech, newsworthiness and other factors, these companies’ complex decisions to leave a video up or pull it down can mean the difference between life and death for people attempting suicide. (Wong, 6/19)

In other public health news —

Ventura County Star: New Program Gives Inmates Chance To Kick Drug, Alcohol Addictions
A select group of Ventura County inmates soon will have a drug addiction treatment option that experts say cuts the body's physical dependence on opioids and alcohol. Vivitrol, also known as naltrexone, will be available for adult inmates in the county starting this month in a pilot program overseen by Ventura County Behavioral Health. The monthly Vivitrol injection works by blocking opioid receptors in the brain and does not activate the brain's pleasure response, unlike other drug treatments such as methadone and buprenorphine. (Hernandez, 6/19)

KPBS: First Person: San Diego Nonprofit Brings Yoga To Those Trying To Rebuild Their Lives
OG Yoga is a San Diego nonprofit that brings yoga to those who may not normally be exposed to the discipline. That can include those dealing with poverty, abuse, incarceration and PTSD. (Ruth, 6/19)

The Mercury News: Affordable Housing For Vets, Artists, Homeless
The City Council this week moved forward with three affordable housing projects and a fourth one — slated for East San Jose — is on the way. And in the next couple of weeks, elected leaders will consider allowing churches to house homeless people permanently, and will discuss where to place up to 200 “tiny homes,” micro housing units with a bed and locking door and shared bathrooms and showers. (Giwargis, 6/19)

In other news from across the state —

KPCC: LA County Health Department Orders Paramount Plant To Stop Emitting Odors 
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has ordered a metal processing facility in the city of Paramount to immediately stop emitting metallic odors that can cause headaches, nausea, and eye, nose and throat irritation to people living nearby. The order comes in the wake of a similar move by air regulators. (Plevin, 6/19)

The Wall Street Journal: Senate GOP Plans Health-Care Vote Next Week
Senate GOP leaders have set a timeline to vote next week on legislation to repeal large chunks of the Affordable Care Act, even though they don’t yet appear to have secured enough support to pass it. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) is intent on keeping pressure on Senate Republicans to move quickly on the bill rolling back and replacing much of the 2010 health law, lawmakers and GOP aides said. The push for a quick vote before the weeklong July 4 recess could backfire, however, as some conservative and centrist Republicans have expressed concern about the emerging shape of the legislation. (Armour and Peterson, 6/19)

The New York Times: The Senate Is Close To A Health Care Bill, But Do Republicans Have The Votes?
The 52 Republican senators have been meeting several times a week behind closed doors to develop a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. At least 50 of them must be on board for the bill to pass, and they could try as soon as next week. (Andrews and Park, 6/19)

In other news on the American Health Care Act —

The New York Times: Senate Democrats Try To Gum Up Works Over Affordable Care Act Repeal
Democrats vowed on Monday to slow work in the Senate to a crawl to protest the secrecy surrounding the Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, as Republican leaders raced to prepare a bill for a vote as soon as next week. Without the votes to stop the majority party from passing a bill, Democrats can only draw attention to the way Republicans are creating their bill — behind closed doors without a single hearing or public bill-drafting session. (Kaplan and Pear, 6/19)

The Washington Post: Senate Democrats Intensify Criticism Of Emerging GOP Health Bill
Senate Democrats ramped up opposition Monday to the emerging Republican health-care bill, launching a series of mostly symbolic moves including speeches that went late into the evening and a push to slow other Senate business to a crawl. The aim, Democrats said, was to draw attention to the secretive process Republican leaders are using to craft their bill and argue that the GOP proposals would hurt Americans. The Democrats lack the power to prevent a vote and they don’t have the numbers to defeat a bill without Republican defections. So they are focusing this week on nonbinding protests. (Sullivan, 6/19)

The Washington Post Fact Checker: Pelosi’s Claim That An Estimated 1.8 Million Jobs Will Be Lost Through AHCA
Recently attacking the American Health Care Act, the House GOP replacement for Obamacare, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi made a new assertion – that it would cost 1.8 million jobs. She seemed to be turning a standard GOP attack line on its head – that the Affordable Care Act was a job killer. In 2010, Pelosi also famously once predicted that Obamacare would “create 4 million jobs, 400,000 jobs almost immediately.” She was citing an optimistic study at the time, and economists will argue forever whether the law spurred employment or was a drag on it. But recent research indicates that, contrary to the spin by both sides, the ACA had minimal effect on employment, hours of work and compensation. (Kessler, 6/20)