Posted on 11/12/2015 2:40:27 AM PST by Libloather
Mayor de Blasio is moving to clean up a state medical-insurance mess that blindsided thousands of New Yorkers, including 114 cancer patients in the city who were about to lose their doctors.
Under a hastily drawn-up deal, the patients will continue to get coverage for treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center under the city's MetroPlus health plan.
The patients had faced a tough choice: pay out of pocket or find new doctors because of the impending bankruptcy of Health Republic - one of the state's ObamaCare providers and the only one that covers treatment at Sloan Kettering.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Everyone else? Well, bye.
CYA.
Well, this is certainly compassionate. What about all the others who fell through the cracks, are they going to be found again in time to take timely action?
How many more dominoes are going to fall before the “system” created by the most inappropriately named “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010” finally collapses of its own dead weight?
It's about driving business to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center instead of other medical facilities.
I guess you get "blindsided" when you don't read it before you pass it.
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