WH Hints: You Might Be Losing Your Doctor, Too

The Weekly Standard ^ | November 19, 2013 | Daniel Halper

[2ndDivisionVet]

The White House has admitted that it was wrong to promise that people would be able to their health care plans under Obamacare. "With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it, I think -- you know, and I’ve said in interviews -- that there is no doubt that the way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate. It was not because of my intention not to deliver on that commitment and that promise. We put a grandfather clause into the law but it was insufficient," President Obama said at a recent press conference

Now it seems their beginning to backtrack on their pledge that people will be able to keep their doctors, too.

Here's Jay Carney at today's White House press briefing:

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

"The president made clear throughout the effort to pass the Affordable Care Act and throughout the period in which -- that continues to this day -- in which Republicans have sought to repeal it that the vast majority of the American people those who have insurance through their employers, who have insurance through Medicare or Medicaid, will not see a change and that includes to how their plans allow them to get access to difference doctors. The reality of the insurance system that we've seen over the years is that these plans change all the time, so there are limits. If you're building on the private insurance based system that the president is doing, using the model from the Republican governor in Massachusetts, as he did, this is not a government run insurance program," said Carney, clearing his throat after being asked whether Americans would be able to keep their doctors.

He continued: "What is the case is that if you're purchasing insurance in the marketplace you have a variety of options available to you, from less expensive plans to more expensive, more comprehensive plans. And as is the case in insurance markets and networks all over the country, the more comprehensive plans tend to have broader networks. So if you are looking for, if you want coverage from your doctor, a doctor that you've seen in the past, and want that, you can look and see if there's a plan in which that doctor participates in. And that reflects the way that the private insurance system has long worked."

[Steely Tom]

If you like your family, you can keep your family.

[defconw]

Yes my experience as well. Major companies give you a choice and the first thing everyone, as an individual always does is to check which of the offered plans has their provider/providers.

[muleskinner]

My doctor is going to a concierge business model drastically reducing his client base, but charging a min. of $1500/yr to see him on demand. I'm pretty sure it'll be a lot more than $1500. He came to see me in the hospital and said it was because of Obamacare he's changing.

Thanks for nuthin', Premier Sotoro.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Doubtful.

[ThunderSleeps]

If they are saying “might” read that as “almost certainly will.”

[2ndDivisionVet]

Watch for “hospital ships” to be built and anchored 15 miles offshore all along all three coasts.

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t know what percentage of people lose their physicians in a change-over. I don’t think they all do by any means. I do think it is a somewhat accurate comment to say that people do lose their primary physician all the time. I do think that is going to increase also.

I am glad that you have found a good one, and that you have been able to keep them as long as you have. I hope that continues for you. Hopefully your husband’s employer will not have to discontinue providing health care coverage. That would be unfortunate.

[JSteff]

And who wants to bet when the first one will be hit with a bunch of storm troopers roping down on the decks for an “insection”? You also know that is coming too, right?

Especially when O gets his coronation by SCOTUS, right? Those days are a real possibility. When the next justice is sworn in, and that is a reality, hopefully this country will wake up and see elections mean things.

Obama is not going to go easily or by any process of law. The times we are seeing are not the worst that will come. Maybe then we can give ACA to the voters on the left as their payment to see what having a leftist mindset is all about.

The ACA will be the least of our concerns by then. <</s>

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Eagles6]

The Obamacare Home Appendectomy Kit is 30% off on Amazon right now!

[tet68]

“With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it, I think — you know, and I’ve said in interviews — that there is no doubt that the way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate. It was not because of my intention not to deliver on that commitment and that promise.

That last sentence is the tell, he’s lieing again
right there. Or else why would he of included that.

[arthurus]

I lost my doctor and, effectively, my insurance and I am on Medicare. I have the United Healthcare Medicare Replacement deal and "Due to the changes..." United has kicked off all the local doctors and hospitals. I break a leg- I have to pay cash or somehow get 130 miles up the road. This being the window of opportunity to change one's Medicare arrangements I have been applying to all the non AARP alternatives that I can find. No one returns my calls or responds to my applications. None. They all talk nice on the phone but send no paperwork and do not call me back. I have long been a member of Generation America, an AARP alternative Old Folks Org but that is going to cease pretty soon. They are as helpful as anyone else.

Fortunately I am basically healthy and can deal with the crotchets of old age from the Supplements rack at WalMart or on line. I have no insurance, just a large file of paper and manuals and rules and Information about Medicare that pretends that I do. I have been paying pre-premiums for this crap for many years and am paying an SS deducted $125 or so now and now I find that it is all just an income tax, nothing more.

[The Citizen Soldier]

I have the United Healthcare Medicare Replacement deal

United Healthcare is the crony branch of the AARP. Anyone see the connection?

[arthurus]

We need to all head to DC and transition all the democrats.

And replace them with what, Republicans? You think romneycare will be any better than obamacare? No Republicans are going to undo this abomination, even if they get to be the President and 75% majorities in both Houses. They would tweak it and play it for this group and that constituency. Each would be a local hero "fighting" to get special benefits for small portions of his own voters or high profile "saves" for individual sufferers. That is what politics will be from now on. That is the inescapable result of government gaining control of Medicine in no matter what configuration. Fear not, though, all the squabbling will end when Amnesty is passed or proclaimed and Socialism becomes the nominal system and Totalitarianism the reality with all its attendant horrors. "Healthcare" will be a quaint irrelevancy.

[arthurus]

I signed up for it at a time when I was not educated to the full picture of AARP. I have been trying to get loose from it and not doing very well in that project.