One of the great ironies of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s on-again, off-again push to make health care available to all Californians is that, to hear him tell it, it worked too well.
That success — an unexpectedly high number of Californians who signed up to see a doctor under Newsom’s expansions of Medi-Cal — is now cited as one of the reasons Newsom wants to back away from the program he loudly championed — a cornerstone of his election and re-election campaigns.
