Article: Poor get better access to care under privatization.(Health Care: Private Intervention)(Interview)

Access to medical care for the indigent has improved under Los Angeles County's 1995 plan to shift poor and uninsured patients from hospital emergency rooms to privately run clinics, county health officials say.

Under the plan, the county called in nonprofit clinic organizations to take over eight of its clinics. Although the plan was implemented because of a crisis - the county could no longer afford to run the clinics - it had the side benefit of increasing the number of sites where the poor can be treated.

As a result of taking over those eight facilities - and signing contracts with additional clinics - the number of clinics treating poor and uninsured ...

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