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Some Doctors Turning Medicaid Patients Away

Medicaid is designed to provide health care to the nation's poor and disabled. Many patients who are in the Medicaid program have no other health insurance options --the problem is, the doctors who care for them do. More and more doctors are opting not to care for Medicaid patients, begging the question, who will? Gretchen Cuda of member station WCPN in Cleveland has the story.

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