City doctors mobilizing to address inequities in health care system

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Dr. Raul Vazquez stood onstage Wednesday evening in Pucho Olivencia Center on Swan Street and ran through the symptoms of what he said was becoming a “two-tiered health care system.”
At the heart of it, he said, was the gap between the treatment given to patients covered by commercial managed-care organizations, the HMOs, and patients who receive care through Medicaid.
In many instances, he said, hospitals and other doctors turn away Medicaid patients or do not provide them with timely care.