The Current State Of ObamaCare - ACA
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Sorry Houc, That only works for 75% of the people 60% of the time.
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CoveredCA enrolled something like 1.2 million in the exchange and over 2 million in Medi-CAL. Roughly 1/4 Californians are on Medi-CAL now
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Wow. any idea what percentage of family physicians in California accept medi-cal Medicaid? There are only 6 in my county of 400,000 residents.
How many are legal immigrants?
AC has a good point. I don't know the exact figures right now, but it was something like 35% of docs in GA accepted Medicaid & SCHIP patients.
What good is Medicaid expansion if no doctor sees Medicaid patients?
Why physicians are hesitant to take Medicaid patients
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I dont have recent numbers available. In July 2010 it was 57% according to chcf.org but that was in answer to the question "Is your office treating Medi-CAL patients?" I've seen estimates around 30% but I'd love to see a reliable study.
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I can't find the exact link now but somewhere within the documents on this page Medi-Cal: Provider Enrollment it says that 78,000 Medical Providers are contracted with Medi-Cal. I have no idea what percentage that is, but 78k sounds good.
BTW..900,000 Medi-Cal applications have not yet been processed. These patients will be oozing into the medical system in the coming months.
Story: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-medi-cal-backlog-20140501,0,7968910.story#ixzz30YJfndzw
And I thought our (Illinois) 185,000 backlog was a big number, LOL.
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