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White House orders broader Obamacare health plans in 2015
Washington Post ^ | March 14, 2014 | BY JASON MILLMAN

Posted on 03/14/2014 5:12:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The Obama administration is requiring health plans in Obamacare insurance marketplaces to include a more robust offering of care providers in 2015 after some early backlash over limited networks in the health care law's first year.

Health plans selling on the federal marketplaces in 2015 must include 30 percent of area "essential community providers," which are usually health centers and other hospitals serving mostly low-income patients. That's up from a 20 percent requirement in 2014, the first year of expanded overage under the health care law.

The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees the marketplaces, will also take a much more active role in reviewing health plan networks. CMS, which outlined the new standards in a Friday night letter to insurers, will evaluate whether the plans include enough access to hospitals, primary care doctors, mental health providers and oncologists. The updated standards came after a Friday interview in which President Barack Obama acknowledged that pressure to keep down costs could mean consumers may not have access to their choice of doctor.

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To: Oldeconomybuyer








if you want to keep your doctor
I want my piece of the action








41 posted on 03/14/2014 7:54:51 PM PDT by devolve (- Tell Vladimir after my erection I have more FLEXIBILITY -- I need more SPACE - BHO Jr -)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“What is different now is the Affordable Care Act marks the first time that federal law requires insurance plans to offer adequate networks of doctors

My health care provider list of doctors in my area is huge. At least it was. This statement is an absolute lie. If the numbers of doctors associated with a health care provider goes down - it is because of ObamaCare.

Reminds me of the adage - "the floggings will continue until moral improves".

42 posted on 03/14/2014 8:12:53 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This is getting really bizarre. Up until now it's been stupid, then panicky, then tyrannical. But now they've reached bizarro land. The White House decides to force Joe Sixpack to buy their kind of insurance plan. Then the White House tells Joe, "Go Online." Joe says about the website, "You gotta be kidding me." The White House informs Joe, because the website's broken, that he can't keep his doctor, that he can't keep his policy, that's he's paying more for his premium, that his deductibles are doubling at a minimum, and that his co-pays are doubling. Then the White House starts announcing changes to the law, even though the law itself has certain words on a page in black and white. changing Joe Six Pack's health insurance plan daily. Then they start changing requirement dates based on elections and timing. Finally, we get them telling Joe that the entire network of docs and hospitals idea was a piece of junk, so that's changed too.

You can't get there to buy something you can't afford that no one will provide and very few were allowed to provide.

Sounds like a plan.....from bizarro land.

43 posted on 03/14/2014 8:27:46 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
White House orders...

Have we had enough yet?

44 posted on 03/14/2014 8:39:03 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: xzins

A far simpler fix to health care would have been to require all health care providers to post a list of charges for their services like every other industry.

No way in hell a hospital visit where they provided zero service except for an ambulance ride, an ice pack and some blood pressure checks can cost over 10K.


45 posted on 03/14/2014 8:42:36 PM PDT by USAF80
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To: USAF80

Excellent point

A standardized list of costs.

I like it.


46 posted on 03/14/2014 8:44:22 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In other words, the guys who were claiming that our old policies were crap are now admitting the policies they were trying to sell us were crap. No wonder they had to do it after business hours on a Friday.


47 posted on 03/14/2014 8:53:01 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I see Seabbass and her staff at HHS are working overtime to issue new regs to be followed at all times


48 posted on 03/14/2014 8:56:01 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: rawhide

“This will most definitely increase the premiums and deductibles next year.”

At which point the administration will demonize the insurance companies.


49 posted on 03/14/2014 8:57:18 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: xzins

An example of inflated cost.

MRI overseas=$500
MRI USA=$5000

Why are we paying 5x as much for the same pics?


50 posted on 03/14/2014 9:02:54 PM PDT by USAF80
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To: plain talk

Well, in a way, the statement that this is the first time the feds require an adequate network of doctors is true. It’s never been an issue before. Insurers with inadequate networks lost customers. Remember, that was back in the old days when consumers had choices and there was this thing called a free market in play.


51 posted on 03/14/2014 9:06:38 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: matt04; EagleUSA; dalereed; digger48; haircutter; staytrue

We need to stop living in Fantasyland and cure this acute case of Normalcy Bias so many are infected with.

His Heinous, will NEVER BE IMPEACHED.

It is a political IMPOSSIBILITY. Unicorns farting skittle rainbows will fly out your arse before Boehner or the House would ever introduce Articles of Impeachment and God would welcome Satan back into heaven before the Senate would ever convict him.

For even if a miracle of the Almighty Himself occurred and Obama was miraculously impeached - he will NEVER abide by any decision Congress comes to. He will INGORE them and sic his Praetorian media and his Civilian army on anyone daring to oppose him.

No, history teaches that there is only one way that a despotic dictator and his regime is ever removed from power.

And few to none will even allow themselves to understand that truth, much less plan to carry it out.


52 posted on 03/14/2014 9:20:41 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: rainee

The Masses are forced to buy.
Doctors to be forced to provide.
What is wrong with that?
Just routine totalitarian (Liberal) Police State policy.....

Celebrate!
The rock group, The Beatles, had a song:

“Back in the USSA”

right?


53 posted on 03/14/2014 9:36:49 PM PDT by OldArmy52 (The question is not whether Obama ever lies, but whether he ever tells the truth.)
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To: rainee

Congress, Senate and the Courts to be disbanded.
No need.
Executive Branch can do the job for all.
illus. King Obaba making new laws up such as this.


54 posted on 03/14/2014 9:38:12 PM PDT by OldArmy52 (The question is not whether Obama ever lies, but whether he ever tells the truth.)
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To: pollywog

The “Democratic” Party aka the “Fascist Socialist” Party will never support Impeachment of their Dear Leader.

Would be like the WWII Nazi Party impeaching Hitler.
Not going to happen, unless Dems had integrity.


55 posted on 03/14/2014 9:40:56 PM PDT by OldArmy52 (The question is not whether Obama ever lies, but whether he ever tells the truth.)
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To: Terry L Smith

Admittedly it would be helpful if there were two major Parties in the US. Pity there is only one Party these days.

The Dems: “We hate the Repub Base!”
and the Repubs: “We hate the Repub Base!”


56 posted on 03/14/2014 9:43:06 PM PDT by OldArmy52 (The question is not whether Obama ever lies, but whether he ever tells the truth.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The more regs obama piles on the exchange plan insurance providers, the fewer insurance providers that will be willing to participate. Some states have only one exchange plan provider as it is now, and several large exchange plan providers have announced that they’ll be pulling out if they’re forced to up rates much higher than they’re charging now.


57 posted on 03/14/2014 10:33:07 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Mike Darancette

“Exit insurance companies stage left.”

Yep.


58 posted on 03/14/2014 10:33:54 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama Care is finished. Kaput.

The dems are imaging over it, underneath its all held together by bailing twine and hog wire.

The truth is out. Now come the Obama Campaign shell games of distraction......now you see it , now you don’t.That alone should get them turfed into the dust bin of history, but the MSM is waxing fascist these days, keeping truth from the public.


59 posted on 03/14/2014 11:49:37 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: LauraJean
Biden as the court jester is an insult to courts jesters throughout time.

Biden is an insult to.................who cares.

Now, Pepe Le Pew, the white and black skunk has more integrity than this president will ever have

60 posted on 03/15/2014 1:21:00 AM PDT by TEARUNNER14 (ABORTION=ONE DEAD, ONE INJURED.)
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