Will it work?

Los Angeles County, California created a health maintenance organization network, L.A. Care Health Plan, to treat the county's 1.2 million recipients of Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program. Medicaid services will be administered under a managed care system that consists of L.A. Care and a commercial HMO, FHS, that compete against each other for enrollees. L.A. Care consists of six private and one public managed care health providers.
Despite initial applause, the future of L.A. County's two-plan model for serving Medicaid beneficiaries remains uncertain There was much rejoicing in April when L.A. Care Health Plan, one of two [...]