Terri Anderson signed up for Medi-Cal earlier this year, hoping she’d finally get treatment for her high blood pressure. But the insurer operating her Medicaid plan assigned the 57-year-old to a doctor across town from her Riverside, Calif. home and she couldn’t get there. “It was just too far away,” said Anderson, adding that she cares for her 90-year-old ill father and can’t leave him alone to make an hour round-trip drive to the doctor. Now she’s crossing her fingers that a health clinic near her house will accept her new insurance. In an effort to control costs in its rapidly expanding Medi-Cal program, California has relied heavily on managed care...
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