Lesson of the Day: Don't get really sick

Although health care reform will--in principle--insure many uninsured people, those people may not have access to the care they need.

This article from yesterday's NYTimes points out that the sickest patients still may find it difficult to get health care, even after they are covered by the Medicaid program.

Only 40 percent of those [physicians] questioned in 2008 by the Center for Studying Health System Change, a research organization based in Washington, said they accepted all new Medicaid patients.

Coverage without care is, I think, the term of art.