More than one-third of California's $200 billion budget goes toward health care. Private health insurance spending in the state, meanwhile, exceeds more than $100 billion a year.
Unfortunately, all that spending doesn't appear to make health care more accessible. That's the troubling finding of a comprehensive new analysis of health care accessibility and openness by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The study ranked California's healthcare system 40th of the 50 states.
