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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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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".
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.
Have we had enough yet?
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.
Excellent point
A standardized list of costs.
I like it.
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.
I see Seabbass and her staff at HHS are working overtime to issue new regs to be followed at all times
“This will most definitely increase the premiums and deductibles next year.”
At which point the administration will demonize the insurance companies.
An example of inflated cost.
MRI overseas=$500
MRI USA=$5000
Why are we paying 5x as much for the same pics?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!”
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.
“Exit insurance companies stage left.”
Yep.
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.
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
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