the national average healthcare cost per person annually in the us is 13k the california medicaid system, medi-cal's entire budget both for the actual payouts to healthcare but also its own admistrative costs divided by the number of people on it (15 million), comes to just over 10k per person. (and you dont have to fuck around with copays or partially covered medications or any of that stuff) government agencies are more efficient than private insurance companies
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