Posted on 12/14/2014 1:57:02 AM PST by Zakeet
Kevin McCarthy of Thousand Oaks, California, was surprised last spring, when he learned his family doctor of 14 years could not accept the Blue Shield insurance he'd purchased under Obamacare.
He said he was "outraged" because when he was shopping for his policy, Blue Shield confirmed his doctor was covered.
"We were duped," McCarthy said. "Hoodwinked is another good term."
Here's what happened. Insurance companies -- to save money -- are quietly selling what are called "narrow networks." They sharply restrict the number of doctors and hospitals people can see. In some cases, people may be limited to 30 percent or less of the doctors and hospitals nearby.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Patients outraged after losing doctors under Obamacare ... and that's one of the reasons why the Democraps are so desperate to import so many replacement voters!
well don’t bother looking to the GOP for help as its leadership just funded Obamacare.
Importing voters to replace the citizens who despise you is far worse that buying Chinese s*** at Mao Mart — I watch this stuff with horror and amazement..
When the PPACA was essentially written BY THE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY, and through crony capitalism efforts by the Democrats, did you expect those companies to do anything other than increase profit?
Where are the restrictions and guidelines on the insurance companies for WHAT, WHERE, WHY, WHO, WHEN and how much both long and short term that favor the patient, if this was supposedly the Patient Protection ACA?
“We were duped,” McCarthy said. “Hoodwinked is another good term.”
Lied to by socialists. The “stupid Americans” in CONgre$$ who were tricked by well-paid National Socialist architect Gruber into voting 100% for ACA, aka, force, aka TOTALITARIANCARE, are too stupid to hold public office. Or, were they willing co-conspirators with the USSC (United Socialists Supreme Court) like John Roberts? No worries right? The kabuki-theater opposition party you know, check$ and balance$, will correct these unjust, unconstitutional, crony-socialist schemes.
“Everything about socialism is sham and affectation.” - 23.11 Ch23 Evil; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850.
“Socialism Is Legal Plunder” - The Law; Bastiat
18T in debt, 316 million “Americans”. Can 535 step up to right the republic?
DEPOPULATE socialists from the body politic. DEFUND/DISMANTLE socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
November & December was a beginning
developing...
wait a sec.... If you were duped that means you actually believed Obama and the democrats. No sympathy from me.
My sypmathy resides with the people who wanted nothing to do with Obamacare and are now forced to be a part of this horrid law.
Gracias Senor Juan Boner.
Deceit, destruction, plunder and death. I’ll take socialism for a trillion, Alex. BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM. Insurance is the socialization of risk/responsibility. Separate socialists from doctor/patient. With health, separate yourself from doctors.
LMAO at all you low-info voters that put this POS into office!
I hope every single one of them voted for Obamugabe.
They are also restrictions other coverage. Individual drugs and other care.
Cash paying patients have a very wide network. (Just pining on the way it used to be).
Complaining about Obamacare not being as promised is like complaining that the designer handbag and speakers that “fell of the back of the truck” turned out not to be the real thing. When you buy from a crook, it’s your fault if you get taken.
I was helping an unemployed friend search for insurance plans on “the marketplace” website the other day. You can do a geographical search of network providers for these CommieCare plans. Doing a wide search brough up zilch in general practitioners, least of all his own doctor.
I would think that folks might realize that the best way to get such info is to actually ask their doctor - haven’t yet met a doctor who wasn’t aware if he was covered by a certain carrier...
“Here’s what happened. Insurance companies — to save money — “
Yeah, those evil capitalist pig insurance companies and their adherence to the utopian law so graciously given to the proletariate by our benefactor government rulers!
Here is an illustration of that concept
crony capitalism = Fascism
My father spent 2+ years of his life fighting those vermin in WWII, he and I agree they own the ComDem Party now. And unfortunately a goo portion of the GOPe.
Got this in my email...supposedly written by a Purdue engineer.
Of the 2,400 pages of ACA, aka, ObamaCare legislation, it can be condensed to 4 sentences......as humorous as this sounds... every last word of it is absolutely TRUE!
1. In order to insure the uninsured, we first have to uninsure the insured.
2. Next, we require the newly uninsured to be re-insured.
3. To re-insure the newly uninsured, they are required to pay extra charges to be re-insured.
4. The extra charges are required so that the original insured, who became uninsured, and then became re-insured, can pay enough extra so that the original uninsured can be insured, which will be free of charge to them.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is called “redistribution of wealth” or, by its more common name, SOCIALISM.
Would you rather hand over cash or a credit card or pay with EBT card?
In the health care realm, handing over an obamacare card is like paying with an EBT card. Except it is an extremely expensive EBT card to the possessor. And the medical practice that accepts it may never get paid unlike paying with a Medicare card.
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