Tossed medicine, delayed housing: How homeless sweeps are thwarting Medicaid’s goalsTossed medicine, delayed housing: How homeless sweeps are thwarting Medicaid’s goals 

Andrew Douglass shoved his clothes and belongings into plastic trash bags as five police officers surrounded his encampment — a drab gray tent overflowing along a bustling sidewalk in the gritty Tenderloin neighborhood, where homeless people lie sprawled on public sidewalks, sometimes in drug overdoses.