KHN senior correspondent Angela Hart appeared on Spectrum Information 1’s “Los Angeles Instances At present” on Nov. 29 to debate her reporting on California’s expensive and impressive experiment to remodel its Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal.
The initiative, often known as CalAIM, will present a few of Medi-Cal’s sickest and costliest sufferers with social providers akin to home-delivered wholesome meals, assist with housing move-in prices, and residential repairs to make dwelling environments safer for folks with bronchial asthma.
However, as Hart famous, the reforms depart many sufferers behind. Hart frolicked at MLK Neighborhood Hospital in South Los Angeles, the place sufferers, well being shopper advocates, and hospital executives instructed her that care hasn’t improved for almost all of sufferers, who do not obtain the brand new social providers. Additionally they instructed her that low reimbursement charges for docs and different suppliers have created a “separate and unequal” system of care in a group that has disproportionately excessive charges of devastating continual circumstances like diabetes, liver illness, and hypertension.
Click on right here to observe Hart on “Los Angeles Instances At present.”
Learn Hart’s in-depth story about MLK hospital right here, and peruse KHN’s different Medi-Cal protection right here.
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This text was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Household Basis. Kaiser Well being Information, an editorially impartial information service, is a program of the Kaiser Household Basis, a nonpartisan well being care coverage analysis group unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente. |