First to the bottom wins!
Then how come the premiums all cost MORE?
How does restricting the number of doctors keep costs low? Can someone explain?
You cannot keep your Insurance.
You cannot keep your Doctor.
And Now you cannot even keep your Fricking hospital;.
This is way beyond clusterphuck.
Just when you didn’t think Obamacare could get worse. Exchange plans are basically
nothing more than Medicaid, only a WHOLE lot more expensive! The reason is that
obamacare says that exchange plans must cover care at “essential community providers ... that serve predominantly low-income, medically underserved individuals.” (Sec. 1311c(1)C) That means clinics, public hospitals and hospitals largely serving the Medicaid community.
Many exchange plans exclude the top-drawer academic hospitals like Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles, the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and New York Presbyterian in New York City. This is EXTREMELY bad news but it’s bad news for consumers who had access to esteemed hospitals and doctors under their old plans and then got pushed into the exchanges.
Restricting doctors and hospital will cause them to lower their prices if they want to be included in the insurance plans. Not sure that is necessarily a bad thing.
Some insurance companies have been this for years. I think Kaiser Permanente is one that already does this?