Inland Empire health care CEO warns of a system on the brink

Inland Empire health care CEO warns of a system on the brink

This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is published here with permission. 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…