Proposed California Medicaid Changes Could Drive Up Health Insurance Premiums, Report Finds
Stricter Medi-Cal eligibility rules proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) would result in higher health insurance premiums for insured Californians because physicians and hospitals would shift the costs of treating more uninsured patients, according to a new study commissioned by Health Access California, the Sacramento Bee reports. Medi-Cal is the state’s Medicaid program (Rojas, Sacramento [...]