Only about half of the non - emergency care providers in California are willing to treat patients who are on E - Cal — the state ’s version of Medicaid , the joint federal - state health insurance program for the poor and disabled — because the state pays them too little for their services .
Only about half of the non-emergency care doctors in California are willing to treat patients who are on Medi-Cal — the state’s version of Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program for the poor and disabled — because the state pays them too little for their services.