Commentary: Why won’t UC clinics serve patients with state-funded health insurance?
by Michael Wilkes and David Schriger, Los Angeles Times
Apr 05, 2022
3 minutes
One in three Californians are insured through Medi-Cal — the state’s health insurance program for low-income residents. Yet very few of these patients are able to get care through the University of California’s health systems.
Only a tiny fraction of primary care patients seen at UC clinics have Medi-Cal coverage. In some sites, it’s as little as 1% — even in areas with high numbers of Medi-Cal enrollees. The reason for this lack of access, according to UC administrators, is because state
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