Jarrod McNaughton is nothing if not pragmatic. There’s no other way to run a health plan in Southern California that serves 1.5 million people — especially when nearly 95% of its members depend on Medi-Cal, a program about to face its greatest upheaval in memory.
So when McNaughton describes health care infrastructure in the United States as “a Jenga puzzle,” he’s not being glib. “When you start removing those pieces,” McNaughton said this week, “you will start to see a collapse of the system. There is no way to make up for it.”
