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.
...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.
Actually it didn't even do that. It cut healthcare coverage by taxing away plans that were "too good" or "not enough".