Posted on 10/29/2013 1:30:23 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
(CNN) -- Some of Thomas Harte's New Hampshire neighbors are frustrated by the Affordable Care Act's insurance marketplaces but not for the reasons you might expect.
Harte is an insurance broker. He still has his share of frustrations with the marketplace websites, but the growing number of complaints he hears come from clients and fellow brokers who have seen the policies these marketplaces offer.
Nationally the marketplaces offer tens of thousands of different policies with a wide variety of coverage, but Harte has noticed many have one thing in common: They cover a narrow network of doctors and hospitals.
That narrower network comes as particularly bad news for the residents of Concord, New Hampshire.
Concord's one hospital won't accept any policies offered by the marketplaces. To see a doctor, specialist or primary care provider affiliated with the hospital, patients on these Obamacare plans will have to pay out of their own pocket. The closest in-network hospital is in Manchester.
"Can you imagine having to go 25 miles away to Manchester to get access to a health care provider that is covered by your insurance?" Harte asked. "Right now, Concord is one big black hole of health care for people buying these plans."
And it's not just Concord. Nationally, consumers are learning a number of well-known hospitals won't accept insurance offered through the marketplaces.
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Why not? She is definitely on the list of People-Who-Demand-Ridicule.
In. He’s a scrawny black hole.
This guy is an insurance broker and he still doesn’t have a clue? Goodgodafriday! This late in the day he never understood that access/service/choices would diminish under Odumbocare. Worse, he still doesn’t understand that the ACA is designed to put him out of business. The Kenyan thinks he’s a greedy capitalist and rakes off health care money that could really better be used by Gummint to provide care to democrat voters. No MYSTERY here-—the Kenyan has said exactly that. No sympathy from me. He’s got to get his head some sunshine-—it’s been in a shady spot for way too long.
To claim that options are “limited” is a gross understatement. Actually there’s only ONE mandated, legally allowable policy: the oBamKare Policy. The only difference in the “plans” is the payment amount vs deductible amount and which doctors and hospitals have signed up with which plans. The mandated gold-plated coverage is EXACTLY the same for all policies.
“..You voted for Obama, New Hampshire. So quit your whining.....”
Amen, Bro. As did Jersey and CA. All you obamarroids slept with the dog, now enjoy the flea bites.
bttt
Having to drive 25 miles. The horror!
—From THE BIG LEBOWSKI
I think we should all try to log on. I actually tried to get on while she was testifying... nope! site temporarily down!!
What a bunch of clowns. You own this democrats!
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