Opinion: Don’t Rush Decisions on Medi-Cal Managed Care
With a "historic opportunity to create the best local system for our community" after federal legislation allowed 13 California counties to decide how to use Medi-Cal funding, Ventura County "must take the time to properly evaluate all of the possible Medi-Cal models of service," argues Henry Lacayo, state president and CEO of the Congress of California Seniors and commissioner and chair of the Policy/Advocacy Committee for the California Commission on Aging. Lacayo continues, "Something this crucial, this transformational, cannot be decided in haste or without significant input from the public, or without thorough evaluation of the multiple models allowed by law."
- "Local Control of Medi-Cal: Don't Rush This Opportunity" (Lacayo, Ventura County Star, 11/3).