Posted on 07/23/2014 1:41:04 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Low-income Oregon residents were supposed to be big winners after the state expanded Medicaid under the federal health care overhaul and created a new system to improve the care they received.
But an Associated Press review shows that an unexpected rush of enrollees has strained the capacity of the revamped network that was endorsed as a potential national model, locking out some patients, forcing others to wait months for medical appointments and prompting a spike in emergency room visits, which state officials had been actively seeking to avoid.
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Who could’ve guessed?
Unexpected, but somehow...enjoyed. The LIBs need to suffer...everyone does to awaken the country out of this DIM/LIB insanity.
Step 1 in the communists drive to single payer is underway.
They will suffer but being too stupid to see it coming, they will also be to stupid to grasp the cause of their suffering. These people will beg for more suffering in the form of socialized health care.
“The LIBs need to suffer...”
The libs for the most part are not the ones who will suffer or ever suffer. The libs are the limousine liberals who organize and plan the details of everybody else’s life. For the most part they have plenty of money. That is why they are so dangerous to the rest of us. That money gives them leverage most people don’t have. They won’t even notice or care that they’ve created chaos and suffering. They live in a rose colored world of rainbows, unicorns and fairies. Skittles fall from the sky and there are lollypop bushes.
It’s just amazing that there is all this talk of “unexpected”, “unforeseen”, “blindsided”, etc. when what we are really talking about is a “failure to grasp the significance of the obvious”.
So is the answer to jack up taxes on “the rich”, borrow or scream for a federal bailout?
Anyone have an explanation why this isn’t happening (or anywhere near to the same degree) in Washington State, which signed up even larger number of Expanded Medicaid patients? I know people who’ve got in for clinic appointments the next day. Urban Seattle might be worse, but I’m not there (thankfully).
Maybe they have more doctors in WA?
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