Posted on 05/18/2016 4:26:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Amy Moses and her circle of self-employed small-business owners were supporters of President Barack Obama and the Affordable Care Act. They bought policies on the newly created NY state exchange. But when they called doctors and hospitals in Manhattan to schedule appointments, they were dismayed to be turned away again and again with a common refrain: "We don't take Obamacare," the umbrella epithet for the hundreds of plans offered through the president's signature health legislation.
Though their insurance cards look the same as everyone else's the plans are often very different from those provided to most Americans by their employers. Many say they feel as if they have become second-class patients.
This disappointment is fueling renewed interest in a "public option" that would supplement current offerings.
(Excerpt) Read more at myajc.com ...
They would take it if Obamacare paid the bills. It doesn’t.
“Amy Moses and her circle of self-employed small-business owners were supporters of President Barack Obama and the Affordable Care Act.”
Suckers.
“This disappointment is fueling renewed interest in a “public option” that would supplement current offerings.”
In other words double down on your stupidity.
“Well, big government didn’t work. Hey, I know! Lets have even more big government!”
Don’t ya know,it is the selfish and greedy doctors and insurance companies that make it hard for the affordable care act to work.
>They would take it if Obamacare paid the bills.
You misspelled ‘taxpayers’. Of which, pay enough of the ‘bills’ already, w/out needing to add another illegal/unconstitutional burden to their backs.
How right you are! Just the other day my granddaughter's doctor amputated both of her entirely healthy legs and then demanded immediate payment in the form of a brand new Ferrari.
Sadly,I'm now forced to admit that our Community Organizer-In-Chief was right all along.
They wanted health insurance coverage, they got it. Who said anything about actual treatment?
Yes. Eventually they will fix this little problem by mandating its acceptance. And any doctor who refuses to treat an obamacare patient will be notified that the "customer who was refused service" has appealed to a board of appeals and the doctor must respond...at his own expense of time and money of course.
The idea was never to provide access to medical care, but to increase control over everyone and convert citizens to subjects.
“The idea was never to provide access to medical care, but to increase control over everyone and convert citizens to subjects.”
Exactly. I’ve never understood the claim by local “progressives” that there are thousands of people in my mid-size college town who don’t have access to medical care. There is a public health clinic that will see anyone who walks in the door, regardless of insurance coverage, with a fee schedule that reflects income and ability to pay. There is a free nurses clinic and a free dental clinic run by volunteers from the community. The three optometrists we know each provide 10 hours a month of pro bono care at an eye clinic.
Yup.
Public Option will be a done-deal by next Halloween IMHO.
Full Single Payer within five years.
Growing up in the late 40’s, 50’s and 60’s when you went to the doctor you paid him or he sent you a bill which if too big was payable in installments. If you needed medicine you paid for it. For big things like extended hospital stays you bought “hospitalization insurance”. That was a fairly good system as I recall. We all got by with it. Then the unions started demanding that companies pay for the insurance and as they say, the rest is history.
Back in my working days,there was a period of time when a few of the group plans for health insurance were workable,but in later years,the cost got prohibitive in comparison to the wages,so for most of my working years,I had no insurance. Never really had much until I became eligible for Medicare. If I were till working & had to be covered by Obamacare,I’d be right back where I was,except I’d have even less spendable income.
“The idea was never to provide access to medical care, but to increase control over everyone and convert citizens to subjects.”
And to spy on and create databases that can be used against citizens. The electronic medical records requirement is the worst part about Obamacare, IMO, putting us deeper into 1984.
Agreed.
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