Destroying the private insurance market is the aim of Obama care. Once that’s accomplished we can move on to single payer. UHC is making the smart move here. They’re transitioning from a health care provider to an administrative contractor for government run health care.
I will never forget being in a meeting for my mom with the doctor and social worker.
The doctor turns to the social worker and asks “What can we do?”
I question the accuracy of the article. UHC is not laying off doctors, UHC is not renewing previous provider contracts, at least not until closer to the December 15 signup deadline. Both doctors and hospitals are involved in the process.
Those being laid off are actually the currently insured.
They have the choice of keeping their doctor and finding a new insurer or keeping their insurer and finding a new doctor. If there is no other insurer, it is because others too have withdrawn.
You make a point but it is not on target. At present, the future is quite fluid. It is obvious that there is going to be serious, perhaps mortal, trouble with Obamacare. There is a possibility, though not great, that it would be defunded or changed in some major manner in the immediate present.
When contracts are to be made for the next year prior to the new enrollment period deadline and the very nature of those contracts uncertain, prudence dictates patience to see how it will fall out during the first 60 days of the enrollment window.
I am in this very dilemma at present. UHC has settled with a major hospital group and hopefully will settle with my doctor’s group prior to December 15. This happened in 2011 and the agreement came 7 days before the deadline.
Smart for whom? The triage doctors?
Isn't UHC wholly-owned by AARP? Who traitorously endorsed Obamacare in 2009, on the eve of its passage, in a well-greased-up decision Obama "helped" them with?