Children’s hospitals offer a rare place where California’s rich and poor mix; the surgeon who operated on TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s son also performs surgery on kids on Medi-Cal, the name for California’s Medicaid. Indeed, nearly two-thirds of children’s hospital patients are eligible for Medi-Cal, compared with about one-third of patients in community hospitals. Virtually everyone in children’s hospitals is covered because all California children are insured via Obamacare and state law.
