Posted on 05/15/2016 5:31:53 AM PDT by reaganaut1
AMY MOSES and her circle of self-employed small-business owners were supporters of President Obama and the Affordable Care Act. They bought policies on the newly created New York State exchange. But when they called doctors and hospitals in Manhattan to schedule appointments, they were dismayed to be turned away again and again with a common refrain: “We don’t take Obamacare,” the umbrella epithet for the hundreds of plans offered through the president’s signature health legislation.
“Anyone who is on these plans knows it’s a two-tiered system,” said Ms. Moses, describing the emotional sting of those words to a successful entrepreneur.
“Anytime one of us needs a doctor,” she continued, “we send out an alert: ‘Does anyone have anyone on an exchange plan that does mammography or colonoscopy? Who takes our insurance?’ It’s really a problem.”
The goal of the Affordable Care Act, which took effect in 2013, was to provide insurance to tens of millions of uninsured or under-insured Americans, through online state and federal marketplaces offering an array of policies. By many measures, the law has been a success: The number of uninsured Americans has dropped by about half, with 20 million more people gaining coverage. It has also created a host of new policies for self-employed people like Ms. Moses, who previously had insurance but whose old plans were no longer offered.
Yet even as many beneficiaries acknowledge that they might not have insurance today without the law, there remains a strong undercurrent of discontent. Though their insurance cards look the same as everyone else’s — with names like Liberty and Freedom from insurers like Anthem or United Health — the plans are often very different from those provided to most Americans by their employers. Many say they feel as if they have become second-class patients.
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Almost all these people are additions to the Medicaid rolls or heavily subsidized. Republicans had a plan which would have covered these people without taking over the entire health care system.
Told those Obama supporters again and again till you’re blue in the face to no avail -
Obamacare does not equal to providing health care.
This is a sad “I told you so” but definitely no gloating here.
You can buy real insurance anytime you want.
I can say the same about Obamacare policies sold in Texas. My friend has an individual insurance plan she purchased, not Obamacare. She called her husband’s doctor to schedule an appointment. The office staff told her bluntly at the outset of the call they did not accept Obamacare plans. When she told them it was an individual plan and not Obamacare, they perked up, said OK, and asked what day/time was good for them.
Maybe only people who have obamacare should be taken seriously as writers about obamacare
Is there a way to disallow a diagnosis on one's medical records?
This gets down to the basic mindset (whether they realize it or not) of socialists/communists: ‘If only everyone would work hard and let us take what we need from them to run our programs and redistribute, everyone’s life would be better’. In other words, they advocate slavery. They're just too blinded by ideology (and the idea of being really important leaders and saving ‘the people’) that they can't even see this reality. Even if they did, their delusional grandiosity would allow them to rationalize that it was all OK, because they would be fair and good slave masters.
There is no social justice or any other idealistic wonder in socialism / communism. None. Charity is virtuous and humane, and we should all be charitable human beings. Involuntary confiscation for politically motivated redistribution is not charity - even though some in government would like to rationalize it this way.
Yes, and at comparable or lower premium costs.
“...people like Ms. Moses, who previously had insurance but whose old plans were no longer offered.”
Obviously, she didn’t like her old plan. If she had liked it, she could’ve kept it. Obama said so...
The concept of prediabetes is an indication of more or less permanent high blood sugar as indicated by an elevated A1c over a period of time.
Once the A1c level passes a point the condition is diagnosed as diabetes mellitus. The condition is real even though the induction is purely numbers derived.
Some doctors choose to not use the term prediabetes and go for the diagnosis as Type II at a lower A1c threshold. The difference is totally semantic since the remedy is the same.
For the patient, either diagnosis is a warning shot across the bow. To prevent what can be very bad conditions, a few changes are necessary to reduce the probability.
Your post is quite foolish and indicates general ignorance and bias.
In Washington state the numbers were, 1/3 into expanded Medicaid, 1/3 eligible for traditional Medicaid (but were too dumb to apply), 1/3 bought a policy through the exchange. The number of people actually buying insurance that had lost their old policies was never released.
I'll take it a step further.
Excessive confiscatory taxes are a sin against charity because they remove the voluntary link in giving that makes the giving a free will act.
Furthermore, it removes the opportunity for the recipient to be thankful and express gratitude by destroying the relationship between giver and receiver.
True charitable giving glorifies God for both giver and receiver. Government redistribution does not.
I’m a physician and sat in many meetings and told company execs, community leaders and hospital admin it was all a scam. It essentially gave free healthcare to the poor, the majority of which are just freeloaders or drug addicts, and pushed workers into high deductible plans that aren’t much more than catastrophic healthcare plans. No one minds taking care of the truly poor. That wasn’t what this did though.
Now the healthcare corporations and insurance companies are getting killed. Don’t feel sorry for them though. They wouldn’t listen. Crony capitalism at it’s worst.
Vague enough to be assigned to patients who resist the medications and treatments shoved on them because they're billable by the doctors.
Probably not. Leftists never realize how stupid they sound. Consider this, from "our" Attorney General:
“There is no room in our schools for discrimination of any kind, including discrimination against transgender students on the basis of their sex,” claims Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
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Too late, doc .... you're already there.
Almost everyone seems to have forgotten that the democrats originally promised that their health care plan would give all Americans the same health plan as members of congress and the senate have.
obamacare victims are paying a bunch of money for a useless product. Somebody will eventually file a class action suit on this only to be told they have no standing to file.
Aiming for single payer, one give is this line in the article ...
Many say they feel as if they have become second-class patients.
That's one way to say it... Another would be to say that the ACA took insurance from a hundred million people who were happy with their insurance, and replaced it with something that they did not like, had to pay much more for, and is much more troublesome to deal with.
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