Guy Benson:
A pretty unsparing segment from CBS News:
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“This is not an isolated incident…The exclusion of a major provider like Seattle Children’s from a major insurance network in this market is unprecedented…we’re seeing denials in care, disruptions in care; we’re seeing a great deal of confusion and, at times, anger and frustration on the part of these families who bought insurance thinking that their children would be covered. And they’ve in fact found that it’s a false promise.”
Reuters piles on, noting that Obamacare snafus are leaving…AIDS patients “in limbo,” too. In which two conflicting bureaucratic decrees leave one major insurance carrier befuddled, and hundreds of high-risk patients in the lurch:
Hundreds of people with HIV/AIDS in Louisiana trying to obtain coverage under President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform are in danger of being thrown out of the insurance plan they selected in a dispute over federal subsidies and the interpretation of federal rules about preventing Obamacare fraud…The state’s largest carrier is rejecting checks from a federal program designed to help these patients pay for AIDS drugs and insurance premiums, and has begun notifying customers that their enrollment in its Obamacare plans will be discontinued…The dispute goes back to a series of statements from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the lead Obamacare agency. In September, CMS informed insurers that Ryan White funds “may be used to cover the cost of private health insurance premiums, deductibles, and co-payments” for Obamacare plans. In November, however, it warned “hospitals, other healthcare providers, and other commercial entities” that it has “significant concerns” about their supporting premium payments and helping Obamacare consumers pay deductibles and other costs, citing the risk of fraud.
Phil Klein reported last week that HHS is weighing new regulatory actions aimed at ameliorating Obamacare’s “access shock” struggles. The problem? Mandating broader networks (70 percent of Obamacare’s hospital networks are “narrow” or “ultra-narrow,” according to a recent study) would address one flaw by exacerbating another:
Sometimes I think Dems (who were the ONLY elected officials to vote for ObamaCare) wanted all new.sick babies aborted or killed.
It seems unduly difficult to get a new baby covered under O’Care.
It really flies in the face of the Dem mantra (only used when guns are at issue) that, ”if only ONE child suffers…….”
Obama told us, early on all he was were the words he spoke, there was nothing underneath.
And Obama even stole his ”words, just words,” speech from Patrick Deval!
Well, at least with fewer hours worked for enough Americans to equal 2.3 million full-time jobs, these parents can at least stay home with their sick children.
Exactly as we conservatives predicted would happen with this socialist power grab.
Unless we are able to repeal this nightmare, the next step will be the efforts by shameless leftists to do away with private medicine, go all in for government socialist medicine, and enslave physicians. You think access to care is bad under obamacare….just wait and see what happens if leftist scum are able to impose the full socialist takeover of medicine.