It seems like a simple solution. Raise what you pay doctors for treating low-income patients, and they’ll treat more of them. But the problem is that this solution would be very difficult to implement.
It seems like a simple solution. Raise what you pay doctors for treating low-income patients, and they’ll treat more of them. All those waits for appointments and physician shortages that have long plagued the state’s low-income health insurance program—a program that one out of every three Californians now relies on—could be remedied with a simple dose of economics.