Unsure where else to turn, he went to his local emergency room for a refill. “Most of what I see is preventable — preventable with normal access to health care. Medicaid is generally the lowest payer in health care, and California is among the lowest-paying states in the country, experts say. Go to Beverly Hills and those people are overdosing on health care, but here in Compton, patients are dying 10 years earlier because they can’t get health care,” Batchlor said. For now, the hospital is targeting patients who are homeless and repeat emergency room visitors, said Fernando Lopez Rico, who helps homeless patients get services.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 11, 2022 09:07 UTC