The Sheeple don't even know what's about to hit .... Hold the line ...
If you like your job you can keep your job...oops.
More confusion and chaos. Everyday there’s a new horror with Obamascare.
“So it begins.”
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How will it end? What will be left?
Does “pink slips” equate to Doctors being removed from the Unite HealthCare network?
Obamacare will make our healthcare worse.
I can’t wait for the comments from the idiots in the CT congressional delegation..
Oddly enough, there is a sign in the window at my dermotologist(SP) front window stating that they don’t accept the aarp approved United Health Care insurance. Been there for a long time so, is there a problem with united from the git-go? I don’t do anything associated with aarp. In fact they don’t even send me anything in the mail anymore after I hammered them several years ago.
A lot of people are going to learn the hard way that health care coverage and actual health care are two totally different things.
Karl Marx would be proud.
All seniors who voted for 0bama please applaud and raise your AARP card.
Medicare Advantage regs differ from state to state.
Something doesn’t ring true about this article.
In my state, all an insurance co has to do is withdraw from the Medicare Advantage program. My 2013 insurance co just did that for 2014. Other insurers have dropped out in previous years, and some new ones have been added in recent years.
Additionally, doctors have the option of accepting Medicare or Medicare Advantage plans. My Internist’s clinic accepts some, but not all.
Perhaps the MA set-up in CT is different, but in my state and in adjoining state, MA insurance companies do not employ doctors for MA.
It sounds more like UnitedHealthCare reduced their ‘network’ of doctors. That probably means they are dropping out of the MA for next year.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/06/15/obama-if-you-like-your-doctor-you-can-keep-your-doctor/
I am seeing ads now for Capitol Blue Cross that says they are in ALL 50 States. I don’t know of any other company that can make that claim. Are they the chosen Obamacare Provider?
Since open enrollment begins next Tuesday, 15 Oct., we all need to be on the alert for HMOs across the US making announcements either today (Fri) or next Monday, assuming they won’t do so on the weekend.
So will it be at close of business today? Tens or likely hundreds of thousands of doctors suddenly let go across the US?
What a cluster
My guess is, this was not supposed to happen until after the 2014 elections. Stay tuned.
On second thought, I’m sure Rush will once again point out this is a huge win for Obama.
It's a shame. I liked my doctor; had him for over 15 years. I feel like he's "shrugging."
UnitedHealthcare plans to eliminate 810 primary-care physicians and 1,440 specialists
from its Medicare Advantage network in Connecticut next year, the association said. The
insurer would not confirm that number Wednesday but said that, in 2014, it will have at
least 1,500 primary-care physicians and more than 4,000 specialists in the network.
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I’m in Texas, but I’m afraid I’ll lose my doctor. He is one of the best I’ve ever had, but is not a member of the AMA and has Tea Party values. He tries to work around the system and says he’ll keep accepting Medicare patients, but also says it’s getting harder and harder. Don’t know what I’ll do if they drop him as I have a rare genetic disorder and not many doctors even know about it, much less how to treat it.