{"id":1029,"date":"2015-10-28T13:31:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2015-10-28T13:31:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:31:59","slug":"survey-low-income-elderly-reject-calif-managed-care-experiment-for-fear-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Low-Income Elderly Reject Calif. Managed Care Experiment For Fear Of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>A large share of \u00a0low-income elderly Californians have opted out of a statewide managed care experiment because they feared losing their doctors and were reluctant to make any changes to their health care, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thescanfoundation.org\/sites\/default\/files\/field_research_medicare_medi-cal_polling_results_102715.pdf\">survey data released Tuesday<\/a> by the Field Poll.<\/p>\n<p>California is in the middle of a three-year pilot project aimed at nearly 500,000 of the state\u2019s most costly patients \u2013 so called \u201cdual eligibles.\u201d The beneficiaries receive both Medicare, the health insurance program for seniors and the disabled, and Medicaid, or Medi-Cal in California, which provides coverage for the poor. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/survey-low-income-elderly-reject-calif-managed-care-experiment-for-fear-of-change\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=23229356&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--pPd2po34JcyCReTcdstdbTzn3L4AhHVNk0t10iLp5GhrYgkUHBylSeRtHjWuqXKtD73TS2ZAV7BMzFoz-aJISDk5XoQ&amp;_hsmi=23229356\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid  on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News) A large share of \u00a0low-income elderly Californians have opted out of a statewide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}