For instance why is that someone on say Kaiser for example tends to get appointments faster and at (usually) way nicer facilities in nicer parts of town than say somebody on Medi Cal
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Kaiser especially runs their own clinics. So they’ve got the docs and the equipment, they’re a private company, they can do what they want with it.
Public stuff doesn’t have a huge budget for “lookin nice”, we used to put a lot of artform into public buildings, from the architecture to the furniture, but that’s gone away for the more utilitarian and cheaper government aesthetics you get today.
So that’s where you see the discrepancy in appearances at least. As far as wait times and such, I’m sure the answer is much more complicated than I can get into, but I work in an industry that has a similar state/private discrepancy so I imagine part of it too is that Kaiser has to MARKET to people, so stuff like minimal wait times is a way to attract new customers.
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