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(By Chad Terhune for CaliforniaHealthline produced by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

With no insurance through his job, Jose Nu\u00f1ez relied on Medicaid, the nation\u2019s public insurance program that assists 75 million low-income Americans.<\/p>\n

Like most people on Medicaid, the Los Angeles trucker was assigned to a private insurance company that coordinated his medical visits and treatment in exchange for receiving a set fee per month \u2014 an arrangement known as managed care. Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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