As Medicaid Rolls Swell, Cuts in Payments to Doctors Threaten Access to Care

NY Times ^ | DEC. 27, 2014 | ROBERT PEAR

[dontreadthis]

WASHINGTON — Just as millions of people are gaining insurance through Medicaid, the program is poised to make deep cuts in payments to many doctors, prompting some physicians and consumer advocates to warn that the reductions could make it more difficult for Medicaid patients to obtain care. The Affordable Care Act provided a big increase in Medicaid payments for primary care in 2013 and 2014. But the increase expires on Thursday — just weeks after the Obama administration told the Supreme Court that doctors and other providers had no legal right to challenge the adequacy of payments they received from Medicaid.

[dontreadthis]

"the Obama administration told the Supreme Court that doctors and other providers had no legal right to challenge the adequacy of payments they received from Medicaid."

[technically right]

I mean, who could have seen this coming / sark

[BlueStateRightist]

The sequence of events:

1. Doctors stop seeing Medicaid patients.
2. Doctors are forced to see Medicaid patients.
3. Americans stop being doctors.
4. The following become practicing “doctors” in America: Foreigners, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and moronic socialist Americans.
5. People die.

[RightGeek]

[Robert357]

The policies of Democrats are all about illusion over substance. Look at the war on poverty and how dependent minorities are now. Look at federal “education” programs and the state of what kids know. Look at ObamaCare. It is not at all about Affordable HealthCare. The ACA is all about the illusion of getting something for nothing and delivering very little if anything.

[hecht]

send the parasites to pa’s

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“The ACA is all about the illusion of getting something for nothing and delivering very little if anything.”

Nope. That’s the current RESULT of messing with our healthcare, but the end GOAL is to ruin American healthcare and bleed us (literally!) to the point where Americans BEG for Single Payer Commie Care run by the government.

JMHO, but I feel it’s a sound one! :)

[Montana_Sam]

Your next doctor?

[Dr.Deth]

Just as planned.

Thanks Obama!

[Veto!]

“nothing in the Medicaid Act allows providers or beneficiaries (or anyone else, for that matter) to sue to enforce” the equal-access provision.

what kind of double talk language is that?

Obamese?

[Veto!]

I’d rather go to some guy smeared in bear grease dancing around me than some “provider” who sluffs me off because my plan doesn’t pay him enough.

[bigredkitty1]

Watch for fewer doctors to see Medicaid patients and to accept the pittance paid in Medicaid reimbursements. What some people fail to realize is doctors provide a service and should be reimbursed adequately for those services. Most doctors are not greedy. They have bills to pay just like everyone else.

[SaraJohnson]

It figures the Left would come up with a great health care program that happens to cut the poor people off from the poverty health care program they once had and were satisfied with.

[goldstategop]

Its the illusion you can provide quality medical care at rock bottom prices.

The federal government can fund amnesty for illegals up the wazoo but its too poor to give American citizens the health care they deserve.

Its really all about priorities.

[DaxtonBrown]

“I mean, who could have seen this coming / sark”

I was going to say the same. Maybe only stupid Tea Party loons.

[SaraJohnson]

You are right.

[SkyPilot]

49? She looks 79. The White version of GibsMeDaaaat.