Posted on 04/05/2014 2:27:32 PM PDT by lowbridge
Covered California’s Executive Director Peter Lee testified before a Congressional committee about the successes of Covered California.
“It takes, in our mind, three things for an exchange to work. It takes having affordable health plans delivering quality care, it takes effective marketing outreach, and it takes effective enrollment,” Lee said.
Sadly though, Californians newly enrolled in Covered California are facing the grim reality that the care they are receiving is neither affordable, nor quality.
Few doctors are accepting the new health insurance plans, Californians say.
One Californian woman told KPIX-CA, “This is not what we were promised.”
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Obamacare.
But that could change with the stroke of a pen and a phone call.
Yup, the idiot in chief could easily cause there to be even FEWER Doctors then there are now. Of course that would be his excuse for even more immigration reform.
Wow, whatta surprise.
The Universe is a cruel and unforgiving place. Stiff the doctors, and they go away, either to retire, go into concierge practice, or leave the country altogether.
Part of the means by which medical costs are to be “contained” is by cutting payments to the medical professionals. A very short-sighted policy, as history shall show us once again. If only mediocrity is rewarded, then only mediocrity shall we get. Adequate or acceptable, but not very good, and even that, in short supply.
Play stupid games (vote for Democrats), win stupid prizes (Obamacare).
Two Californicate friends have a total of ten MD s. When you count all their specialists and their primary doctors. None, zero of the ten will accept O- care patients.
Ogilvy's plan was to tap major network TV shows like "Grey's Anatomy" and "Modern Family" to sell Americans on the health care law.
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Townhall.com ^ | April 4, 2014 | Brent Bozell / /FR Posted by Kaslin
Obama aide Valerie Jarrett told a celebrity gossip website POPSUGAR why she had come to Hollywood. "I'm meeting with writers of various TV shows and movies to try to get it into the scripts." The "it" is Obamacare.
Conservatives are no match for liberals in this arena. The White House people know the immense cultural power the left has in popular culture. Liberals rightly credit TV and movies and pop songs for America's growing support for gay "marriage." So why not use that power for Obamacare?
Jarrett told POPSUGAR that they've used all kinds of famous people to push Obamacare: "We're talking to celebrities. We're talking to athletes, because obviously they get injured a lot and many of them are the same age as the market we're going after. And what (athletes) can say is, 'Look, you never know when life is going to throw you a curve ball. You're walking down the street, you're a little clumsy, you trip, you fall -- where do you end up? Emergency room. A couple grand just to walk in the door ... Who can afford that?'"
But there's something undignified and even insulting in the way Team Obama has taken the largest transfer of power from the individual to the state and is trying to accomplish it in the cheesiest venues, like sitcoms and fake-interview comedy shows. It speaks to a dumbed-down popular culture. Sadder still is watching the president feeding it.
So far, the Obama-loving networks seemed to have drawn a line (nets refused prime time for O/Care's faked "victory lap") and has avoided clunky plot contrivances in its top programs to push a blatantly Obama-boosting agenda. But Obamacare is still wildly unpopular, and the White House clearly thinks most people aren't serious enough to be persuaded by watching CNN or MSNBC.
It would rather have your favorite fictional TV characters grab your lapels and tell you to get on the Obamacare bandwagon. It won't admit that Obamacare's promise is as fictional as those programs.
BTW, several doctors I know are moving out of the country because they don't want to be conscripted to provide health care aka be slaves.
FU Low information voters and other leftscum. You deserve to die horribly from lack of health care because of what you have wrought. A lot of good people are also going to die, too.
Lice, Damned Lice, and 0bamacare!
I believe all these azzholes were told that this was going to happen. According to the Obamacare creeps, you do not need doctors because doctors cost money.
Here folks, they are supplying everyone with SEIU fakes.
Ain’t Democrat Obama health delivery great?
Ain’t no end to the stupidity in this country. All these low info dopes thought doctors and hospitals were going to give them quality health care with hardly any payment.
Enjoy it lefties, you own this crap.
Mrs. Hugin has an employee with cancer who is in the middle of treatment and she found out the center she was getting care from wouldn’t take her new Obamacare insurance. The only place she could go was twice as far away, in a bad part of the city. She called the old place and eventurally got ahold of the CEO, and he finally agreed to let her finish her treatment there. I doubt most people had such a happy ending.
But according to Harry Reid I’m making this up. Can I get a check from the Koch brothers now?
When people start seeing their kids die because of obamacare, the gloves WILL come off. And it WILL happen.
BTW, administration media whores (if any of you lurk here), YOU will be in the crosshairs.
PS I have no kids, so I am not speaking about myself.
or quality
They can lie and propagandize all they want but unlike most of their bullsh*t, people are actually seeing and feeling the horrible effects of Obamacare in the here and now.
And I think there are going to be fewer quality doctors in the pipeline if my grand nephew is indicative. He could have easily been a doctor but he saw what was coming and declined the honor. Next month he receives his PhD in engineering. Smart man.
Californians deserve every negative result of Obamacare, whether it be lack of care, lack of doctors or higher costs. They wanted this crap socialism, now let them reap the “benefits” of their stupidity.
BINGO
Wait until people have their kids or spouse or any of their dearly beloved family members lose health care and have to go on this shitty plan and lose their doctor who is treating them for a serious condition. It’s not going to be pretty and frankly these bastards in power who don’t have to use Obamacare, need to be given the Mussolini treatment. It’s not good to mess with peoples most personal and private things in life; their health care, their health care choices.
Yeah, Juan. Make America a free fire zone for criminals, thugcops, and the government.
BTW, ya moron, you do realize that you will be one of the first ones put up against the wall and shot if you get your way? Nah, probably not. You are clearly too ignorant of history to have noticed that ever-recurring pattern.
I’d say FUJW, but your “buddies” on the left will do it for me, probably with a 9mm to the back of the skull. Ya MORON.
Ooops, wrong thread.
welp I read on AOL today how wonderful Obamacare enrollment is going and has met expectations.
Nice huh? The lies the media tells for their king is amazing. I guess it’s a little better than NYT telling us that Obamacare issues are all in our small little mind, and that nobody is losing insurance. Same with the knockout game...all lies and a myth.
“they will continue to vote Dem because their brains are wired to believe whatever Dems tell them to believe..the only ones getting “Free” health care here are the illegals so they love it”
Exactly. It’s in their DNA to vote Dumocrap. My Gf works for Cedars Sinai and the free “doctors’ who treat them are interns who need the practice LOL, especially in the county hospitals.
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