Healing Medi-Cal
Friday, March 9, 2012 - 09:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Gov. Brown's proposed plan to change the healthcare program for the poor is a good first step.Like many states, California is struggling to pay for the health insurance it offers poor residents. The ranks of the Medi-Cal program grew by more than 12% after the economy tanked, and rising healthcare costs increased the fiscal burden. Making matters worse, state officials kept trying to solve the problem mainly by paying doctors less for their services and charging Medi-Cal beneficiaries more, ignoring the skewed incentives and inefficiencies in the system that were driving costs higher.