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Obamacare: Insurance companies cutting doctors and hospitals from the healthcare exchanges

September 15, 2013

According to this article, California could offer the rest of America a glimpse into healthcare when Obamacare is fully implemented and it is not pretty:

The doctor can’t see you now.

Consumers may hear that a lot more often after getting health insurance under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

To hold down premiums, major insurers in California have sharply limited the number of doctors and hospitals available to patients in the state’s new health insurance market opening Oct. 1.

These diminished medical networks are fueling growing concerns that many patients will still struggle to get care despite the nation’s biggest healthcare expansion in half a century.

Consumers could see long wait times, a scarcity of specialists and loss of a longtime doctor.

“These narrow networks won’t work because they cut off access for patients,” said Dr. Richard Baker, executive director of the Urban Health Institute at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles

  So if you are one of the many Americans who have either had your hours cut or got laid off by your employer so that the company would be able to avoid Obamacare and you are forced into the Obamacare exchanges there is a high likelihood you will not be able to keep your doctor.

  Just another unintended consequence, or is it?

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  1. Brittius's avatar
    September 15, 2013 6:40 pm

    Reblogged this on Brittius.com.

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    September 15, 2013 7:38 pm

    Reblogged this on Freedom Is Just Another Word….

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  3. Conservatives on Fire's avatar
    September 15, 2013 9:29 pm

    If Jon Boehner &Company do’t put on their man pants and defund this monstrosity, America is doomed.. I’m not holding my breath.

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  4. rjjrdq's avatar
    September 16, 2013 2:09 am

    Just defund it. What are the rinos afraid of? That if Obama shuts down the government the people that wouldn’t vote for them anyway still won’t vote for them? Defund it and call Obama’s bluff.

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