My favorite part will be when Carney claims this was yet another piece of information to which the President was not privy.
If you like your insurance, too bad
If you like your insurance, too bad
This is what I have been saying since the begining: Who is going to see all these newly "insured" patients?Originally posted by Ghost of Spaceheater:
Most doctors aren't accepting the exchange plans. The linked article is from New York, but I know it is true of places like Alabama, Florida & Georgia too where I have friends that are doctors.
So while you might be able to get insurance through the ACA, it won't do you a damned bit of good.
That may eventually happen, but it's not going to happen soon. BCBS is trying to force docs in Florida to take the plans by packing all their plans together. To my knowledge, docs are responding with "shove it, we won't take any of your plans then." So that means if you have any sort of BCBS policy in Florida you won't have access to a lot of docs.Originally posted by Dr. Nole:
This is what I have been saying since the begining: Who is going to see all these newly "insured" patients?Originally posted by Ghost of Spaceheater:
Most doctors aren't accepting the exchange plans. The linked article is from New York, but I know it is true of places like Alabama, Florida & Georgia too where I have friends that are doctors.
So while you might be able to get insurance through the ACA, it won't do you a damned bit of good.
I have also said that I believe they will make it a law that if you accept and see Medicare patients...you will be forced to accept these new exchange plan patients in order to continue to be a Medicare provider.
They know these new plans will suck...so they will have to make Drs see the people on them. "Hey, you want to keep your medical license...then you have to do _______"
My family is filled with Docs. I defended Docs and healthcare facilities for decades in my practice. I know more physicians than I can count. NONE of them think the plan will work. Most believe it's a step toward a single payer system which will decrease the level of care dramatically and decrease access for everyone but the wealthy. The rich will pay for their care on their own and skip the government run crap.Originally posted by Ghost of Spaceheater:
Actually, "dirtbag" America is getting insurance in name only. The policies they will have pay such a low reimbursement rate to doctors that doctors aren't accepting it. So guess where those people will go for their healthcare.
Emergency rooms.
What has occurred with the ACA is less a grand conspiracy and more the product of complete and total incompetence.
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This post was edited on 10/29 8:48 AM by Ghost of Spaceheater
Then the government will turn to physician assistants and nurse practitioners. They're the government; they can define the level of *care* however they freakin' want....probaly with malpractice protection since those that play ball with the libs, win.Originally posted by Hoppo:
It's no wonder why those who came up with this fiasco don't have to abide(use) it.Originally posted by IrishPokerDog:
Then the government will turn to physician assistants and nurse practitioners. They're the government; they can define the level of *care* however they freakin' want....probaly with malpractice protection since those that play ball with the libs, win.Originally posted by Hoppo:
They WILL find a way to have somebody provide care under this system.....of course whether it's in the best interests of most of the nation is of no concern
The flaw with that thinking is America is fundamentally not like European nations because of the Second Amendment. What could be done there can't be done here.Originally posted by goldmom:
I'd have to say that the "Yurps" also didn't start out offering universal care for another ultimate goal, either. After WWII, health care delivery was almost non-existent and it must have seemed at the time that a line 'em up and move 'em through was the only way to get basic care to people. It does remain a prime example of socialized medicine run amok, however.
This ACA is not at all for the common weal, never was intended to be. It is used for another purpose, as a major building block to a single payer system that will be part of a full collective government, where socialism will be the order of the day.