I call bs on docs and nurses want more patients from Obamacare.
Insurance companies want Obamacare because they have hostages for customers AND because the government is heavily subsidizing their business model AND because there is a back-up plan to ensure that they get bailed out in any case built into the law.
I’ve been in health care for more than 20 yrs; it’s a different story for providers. Providers refer to a “payer mix” of self pay (no pay), gov’t program, and private insurance. Only 1 of those three makes money. The trick is to have just enough gov’t pay in the mix to keep afloat against the no pays without swamping the ability to make income from people with real insurance.
The Obamacare model destroys that. Over the next two years, it will taint the insurance model leaving only no pays and gov’t sanctioned payments (losing money and breaking even). Every doc and healthcare provider I know (and I know dozens) are scratching their heads trying to figure out how they are supposed to make any money after all these changes take hold.
It’s an uncertain and frightening future. NOBODY actually provider health care that I know is excited about their prospects in the near future.
Volume is only better if you make more money in conjunction with the increased volume.
The docs and healthcare providers better stop scratching their heads and get out and start marching and writing their checks to Ted Cruz.