Posted on 01/07/2014 7:20:15 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
Failure: ObamaCare is driving millions of people into Medicaid, a program we now know does nothing to improve health and actually drives emergency-room use higher.
A central premise of ObamaCare was that vastly expanding Medicaid would ultimately save health care dollars. The millions of uninsured gaining access to Medicaid would no longer crowd costly emergency rooms looking for care, the thinking went. And that improved access would keep them healthier.
Turns out that neither of those claims is true.
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It also turns out that the people who most need to know this will never read or hear it.
True about that false claim,
but unlike the exchange policies with high deductibles with medicaid the hospital ERs will actually get paid something when these people show up and demand their emergency mandated services, unlike before. (Maryland has a special hospital tax to pay for uninsured)
Yes the new Medicaide enrollees, the previously uninsured, are found to go to the expensive ER for services that would cost less if they made a Dr. visit to a regular clinic. So, the projected saving that could go to help pay for ObamaCare do not exist. These phony savings were touted to help pass ObamaCcare with Obama’s “promise” of big cost reductions if we got ObamaCare started.
It can be difficult to find a doc who will take medicaid patients as they often don’t get reimbursed by our government.
Our daughter was dropped by a doctor we were using after she became eligible for a medicaid program, this even though she is also on Medicare and is on our supplemental health insurance. He was certain to be paid, but did not want to touch it. The uncertainty that all this is causing! Like airline pilots, doctors are learning that the gravy days are going away.
Bad news. I think our family doc will keep my daughter since we have been patients our entire lives. We shall see, however.
We found another. But recently he is not taking new patients, but she is in the system. and we need use him only for routine stuff. All weird, but I can remember the day when the doctor came to the house with his black bag. That was only some fifty some-odd years ago.
True that. My GP recently told me he hasn't seen a Medicaid patient in years. "No money in it." Exact quote.
I remember this as well. So much has changed...and not for the better.
It’s the Cloward-Piven strategy: in order to institute something new, you have to break the old. The way you do this with an economy is to destroy it.
Lefties like 0bamugabe have no problem breaking more than a few eggs on their way to creating their utopian omelet.
These people need to be stopped, period.
Many critics of ObamaCare pointed out this adverse side effect long ago, but their concerns were, of course, ignored. As a result, millions now stuck in Medicaid will learn the hard way that ObamaCare is an empty promise.
Doctors cost: $100.00
Medicaid reimbursement: $53.14
Doctors solution: do not accept Medicaid patients.
ObamaCare is not about lowering costs, insuring the uninsured, or demonstrating compassion. It is about creating a huge, monolithic bureaucracy staffed by unionized, Democrat-leaning workers. It is about robbing the consumer and the private sector.
All the people who need it won’t get it. Everyone ends up paying for it anyways? Medicrap is already taking up 22% of Fed spending. How far down the rabbit hole do we need to go?
http://itsthemoneydummies.com/
Emergency rooms, the most expensive way to provide healthcare.
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