Posted on 09/15/2013 7:53:03 AM PDT by Innovative
The doctor can't see you now.
Consumers may hear that a lot more often after getting health insurance under President Obama's Affordable Care Act.
To hold down premiums, major insurers in California have sharply limited the number of doctors and hospitals available to patients in the state's new health insurance market opening Oct. 1.
New data reveal the extent of those cuts in California, a crucial test bed for the federal healthcare law.
These diminished medical networks are fueling growing concerns that many patients will still struggle to get care despite the nation's biggest healthcare expansion in half a century.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Single page view of the article:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-insure-doctor-networks-20130915,0,6433104,full.story
The story also has specifics — do read it.
Print version even better.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-insure-doctor-networks-20130915,0,3866885,print.story
Sounds just like the lottery system in Canada where having a doctor often times means you have to wait until someone else dies
It dawns on me also that not only will one not be able to get care but you still run the risk of being PENALIZED for not having the right kind of insurance or worse PENALIZED for having insurance that is too good
Obamacide offers no health insurance. However, it does offer way to steal.
Wellmont closing Lee Regional Medical Center (Obamacare in SWVA)
These diminished medical networks are fueling growing concerns that many patients will still struggle to get care despite the nation's biggest healthcare expansion in half a century.
Obamacare didn't expand healthcare, it expanded healthcare coverage. It did precisely nothing to increase the availability of medical care, it only increased the number of people who'd have someone else pay for it.
In other words, it increased demand without doing anything to increase supply.
Only an idiot wouldn't have expected price increases and shortages.
My insurance, once “good,” is being accepted by less doctors now. It used to be a given you could see anyone- not anymore!
...it increased demand without doing anything to increase supply.
Only an idiot wouldn't have expected price increases and shortages.
You've got it right, jdege, but I believe this is worth adding: this legislation was designed to increase demand and shrink supply. The object of the scheme is twofold:
1.) Medical care becomes an increasingly scarce commodity.
2.) The feral government takes control of the distribution of this increasingly scarce commodity, which is to say: perverts it into a reward that can be granted or withheld at state preference.
Ultimately, we've let representatives of the Democratic [sic] party grow the feral government by a prodigious quantity and simultaneously turn medical care into a weapon to be used against us patriots.
So...tell me again how limiting the number of doctors and hospitals in the pool will keep down costs and assure availability of services to those presently without?
Sheesh, these dumbass socialists don’t have a clue.
ACA is all about control. It has NOTHING to do with healthcare.
Noticing the “art” on the concrete structure in the right-hand area of the photo in the *L. A. Times* article ...
There might be a wee bit more money to take care of a person, if the money were not wasted on the piece of junk.
“ACA is all about control. It has NOTHING to do with healthcare.”
BINGO!
See also article posted by upchuck :
Government Seeking Inclusion of Social and Behavioral Data in Health Records [more spying]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3066696/posts
ObamaCare basics
In the name of managing health care costs, ObamaCare dramatically increases administrative costs.
Otherwise, there are REDUCTIONS of:
- access
- care
- choice of your physician
- choice of your specialist
- service
... though you are told you have “coverage,” which is akin to the automobile “coverage” that is without substance.
And finally, there is the MASSIVE GOVERNMENT INTRUSION into the life of every living human being (and probably some dead ones, too), as the government now defines EVERYBODY to be a welfare recipient, who is subject (repeat *that) to inspections:
- in and of their lives
- in and of their persons
- in and of their property
Thus, your “social security” is complete and without quality.
All, except for those who have political power sufficient to evade their being forced into such servitude to The Great Lie.
How long before they start talking about getting the SWAT teams to physically force doctors into giving top quality care to everyone regardless of whether or not they can afford it?
But don't worry, every Planned Parenthood death clinic will be a preferred provider.
If insurers limit the physician supply in the exchanges, resulting in access problems and rationing, patients will simply stop signing up for the exchanges in the first place and simply pay the penalty/tax or forfeit any tax refund.
Only the very sick will sign up for anything because it will be a very bad deal for routine care and even chronic care. It will be difficult to force the healthy and those with less serious chronic conditions to pay a lot for poor access and poor/rationed care.
Regarding bad deals: That “Silver” plan the article touts has a 45 dollar co-pay for a doctor visit.
Ultimately, we've let representatives of the Democratic [sic] party grow the feral government by a prodigious quantity and simultaneously turn medical care into a weapon to be used against us patriots.
I'd worry about it more if mainstream medicine hadn't been so captured by agricultural and pharmaceutical interests that the treatment and advice it offers for chronic disease is actually worse than useless.
Don't get me wrong - if I break a leg I want a modern hospital. But for obesity, hypertension, diabetes, metabolic syndrome? Any and all of the chronic "diseases of civilization" that plague us - you'd be better off ignoring the doctors entirely.
“These diminished medical networks are fueling growing concerns that many patients will still struggle to get care despite the nation’s biggest healthcare expansion in half a century.”
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This is an extreme example of careless writing, possibly even exceeding the worst of my own. The author should take up something he is qualified for after demonstrating such incompetence. THERE IS NO “healthcare” expansion, there is only an expansion of GOVERNMENT INTEFERENCE in healthcare. Healthcare cannot be expanded simply by writing a law, even a good one, let alone something as absurd and incomprehensible as the UNaffordable DON’T CARE A DAMN act.
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