Doctors in CA, even bleeding heart libs, are stopping taking Medi-Cal patients. In January the will only be reimbursed $20 bucks for each office visit. The doctors will be losing a lot of money for each one.
It’s exactly like taking a gourmet restaurant and requiring it to serve $40 entrees for $7. It isn’t sustainable. Fully 33% of Californians are on Medi-Cal. So it now means all treatment at the ER after waiting five hours.
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And the bigger problem with Medi-Cal is that the legislature is poised to put illegals on it. Fully 50% of the 2.3 million (the state’s number) illegals are below the earnings level where they can get on Medi-Cal. I just wished that the RATs here would pull out all the stops and bankrupt the state immediately. Then, maybe out of the ashes, we could rebuild California to be the state in which I grew up 60 years ago.