Posted on 09/23/2013 3:21:07 PM PDT by Brown Deer
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Roughly 92,000 people on Wisconsin's BadgerCare program will begin receiving letters this week from the state notifying them that their coverage is ending.
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I see something very bad in the future....you think doctors are going to be part of this
There may be fewer providers accepting exchange insurance than even Medicaid. I believe that one of the exchange providers is some sort of community organizing group a la Acorn. Molina and WPS have a very poor reputation among providers.
Great. Burn the everything down and get back to paying cash. Everything would be cheaper without the medical cartels.
Bush’s fault I guess.
Already happened for those on Washington State’s Basic Health (including me).
I don’t think doctors are going to be part of Obamacare at all. Just at the fringe I guess
My wife’s family is in Wisconsin. Her niece has been fornicating with an illegal immigrant from Mexico for the last four years, living in a trailer and on just about every entitlement including Badgercare. They now have two innocent little ones. I would bet they will be affected.
I can say that in Washington State Molina and the other community-oriented insurance administrators had to add providers to get the Insurance Commissioner's approval for the exchange. No question, however, there are going to be unacceptable waits for service for specialists. Even before Obamacare goes fully into effect I am having to wait six weeks just to see an ARNP.
the company I work for found out today our insurance will end on Jan 1 2014. They said to start looking now however every site I went to and tried to get a quote said no info un after October 1st.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 78.7 percent of the positions in healthcare and social assistance programs are held by women.
I don’t think that’s the kind of people 0bama needs to sign up. Every taker that signs up means more healthy people need to sign up to foot the bill. This keeps getting better ...
They’ll blame Scott Walker.
Since you are in California you can get pricing and benefit info for the exchange policies from coveredca.com. I looked there myself to get an idea of what Washington’s policies might look like, and when WA’s came out they weren’t that much different. Non-exchange policies are a different ball game.
Can you explain about WPS having a poor reputation among providers?
My husband has had coverage with them for years and is now covered under their Bridge Policy until he hits 65 and Medicare. No provider has ever said a word against WPS and all claims were paid as contracted (minus deductible). They are a State of Wisconsin non-profit and have always been quite reasonable in price while providing many benefits such as no co-pays for office visits, many tests paid for w/no out of pocket and full ER coverage.
He had a major trauma in 2010 and they were a pleasure to deal with. Other than that, he has only needed a check up every 2 years for his BP meds. The clinics he goes to have accepted this insurance without a murmur, while, at one point several years ago, they did seem reluctant to take Golden Rule because “they don’t pay”. That was when we switched.
And that has been the goal all along. End private insurance companies with a largely non union labor force.
Various labor organizations saw the health care industry as
a potential for gaining hundreds of thousands of dues paying members. No other sector could offer so many new members and new funds for the union treasuries.
At least in Washington State the kids will remain on a variation of Medicaid, even the ones who were originally on their parents' state plan.
To all those effected by this who voted for LIBs/DIMs/RINOs...
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“Can you explain about WPS having a poor reputation among providers?”
As an interventional pain specialist I can tell you that WPS almost never authorizes pain management procedures; mainstay procedures EVEN COVERED BY MEDICARE AND MEDICAID, such as epidural steroids, radiofrequency, disc procedures in the spine. Every time, these procedures are chacterized as “investigational/experimental”. If you need opiates for debilitating chronic pain, they won’t cover on site urine drug testing which is mandatory if you want to avoid losing your license and DEA#. When we do see a WPS patient for chronic pain, we always tell them that they are self pay.
Hopefully, you won’t have chronic pain, and maybe then, WPS will be great for you. But, it’s estimated (Mayday Fund) that around 70 million Americans have chronic pain.
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