Ace:
An estimated seven out of every 10 physicians in deep-blue California are rebelling against the state’s Obamacare health insurance exchange and won’t participate, the head of the state’s largest medical association said.…
California offers one of the lowest government reimbursement rates in the country — 30 percent lower than federal Medicare payments. And reimbursement rates for some procedures are even lower.
Details of the reimbursement rates omitted; check the article. Spoiler: They’re quite low.
In order to hide from the public the large number of doctors refusing to participate in the system, Covered California is resorting to, get this, lying.
Only in September did insurance companies disclose that their rates would be pegged to California’s Medicaid plan, called Medi-Cal. That’s driven many doctors to just say no.They’re also pointing out that Covered California’s website lists many doctors as participants when they aren’t.
Remember when OfraudtheLiar paraded Prop Doctors for yet another “photo opt”…to ‘show Americans’ how Doctors here in America are “All For” ofraudcare even though we “know tons really weren’t” “for it” but rather totally against it??
This article pretty much proves that point doesn’t it??
Sadly so many people live in such a small world they ‘think’ 12-20 doctors really represent and speak for all the hundreds of thousands of doctors in America who rejected Ofraud care from the get go….
All the lying, misrepresentation and twisting the facts really gets tiring doesn’t it?
This was completely predictable, and in fact was.
As I have said before, this will result in more articles calling doctors mean, greedy, uncaring and overpaid. Then the left will call for laws forcing doctors to accept obamacare patients to keep their medical licenses.
Good luck finding a doctor once the shortage is exacerbated by docs leaving.
@Pete#2
It is not a coincidence that the word “FORCE” always comes up in the Liberal Ideology …?!?
That is as opposed to the Conservative use of (oppressive words such as) Liberty, Personal Freedom, The Individual, Responsibility for Self and Family…and Land of Opportunity… /sarc off
I will say I am a bit surprised at just how bad this is all going pretty much everywhere. In Maryland, one of the gung ho states on this mess, their administrator resigned after too many “glitches” in their state run system. Now they have a big finger pointed contest going. I figured there would be some problems but this is HUGE. From the lousy websites, to zero security, to a messed up payment transfer system, it’s as if no one had every done this before.
I guess none these folks had ever used amazon or ebay or for that matter Ehealth.com. Yeah imagine that; that site could have served as a template.
We really do need to shrink gov’t by a lot. Starve the beast.
What makes me mad is this is going to affect us all at some point and not in a good way. We are probably are in the process of ruining our health care system as we know it. Obama’s big accomplishment will be getting medicaid stacked full of poor people. Which will only make it worse for them. The laws of supply and demand has not been repealed, even the chicago savior can’t change that. He just seems unfamiliar with it.
For the lefty trolls who might be wandering by here’s something to read from one of your favorite sites.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/05/obamacare-enrollment_n_4384820.html
What amazes me is the absolute religious fervor exhibited by the leftists who insist – hysterically – that once obamacare is fully implemented that people will somehow fall in love with it. It does not matter to these collectivist zealots that every single aspect of this law has been a disasterous failure, doing exactly the opposite of what the liar currently befouling the Oval Office stridently claimed it would do.
Obamacare is raising prices for virtually everyone, not lowering them as the left claimed.
Obamacare has thrown at least 5 million people off their previous insurance plans, and we haven’t even gotten to the employer mandate yet because Obama delayed that (illegally) until after the 2014 elections.
The obamacare website still does not work – and these morons haven’t even set up a payment system for doctors and hospitals for a program that is supposed to take effect in 3 weeks and 4 days.
Obamacare should be THE defining issue for the next election. If the GOP manages not to screw this opportunity up and gets a veto-proof majority in both houses, the first order of business had better be the full and complete repeal of obamacare, or the GOP will be finished as a political party. They should also bring Holder up on charges for his crimes on Fast and Furious, Lehrner should be brought up on crimes for her political harassment of Obama’s opponents via the IRS, and Benghazi had better be properly investigated.
That is “My Christmas Wish List”…as I just finished doing the Santa thing for our NICU graduate Christmas party and since I was asking all the little kids what they wanted for Christmas, I figured I would make my wish as well.
Pete
THE WHOLE DEMOCRAT PARTY SHOULD VANISH FROM THE GOVERNMENT SITE,
THEY ALL REPEATED THE SAME LIES IN ALL THE FAILURES, WHICH HAPPENED IN THE LAST 6 YEARS,
THEY COVER THE WRONG WHICH WHERE HURTING THE PEOPLE AND STILL IS,
AND SO MANY OF THEM, THAT NOW THEY HIT THE LIMIT,
THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO TO REPAIR IT ALL,
they have lure the people to believe their games which turn out nefarious for the people,
they and their multiple hired people have done wrong to the people,
they thought of their own party, even that they are there to serve the people,
they serve their leader and profit from their obediance,
with gift and raise,
that is not a politic from the people, by the people, for the people,
who paid them more than what they get paid for themselves,