November 27, 2013

IT’S NOT ENOUGH TO HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE, YOU ALSO NEED DOCTORS: Who Will Treat Those New Medicaid Patients From the Obamacare Exchanges? “Health care providers are showing a certain lack of enthusiasm about the Affordable Care Act. Because of low reimbursement and bureaucratic headaches, both state and national surveys showing physicians unenthusiastic about seeing patients who get coverage through the Obamacare exchanges. And that’s for private insurance. But Healthcare.gov and the state exchanges have been more successful so far at signing people up for Medicaid than private plans—and many Medicaid patients are already having trouble finding doctors. So…Who is going to see these new Medicaid enrollees?”

I suppose the plan is just to conscript physicians. That’s how these people think.

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