OBAMACARE RECREATES CUBAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: GOOD HOSPITALS FOR THE RICH AND POLITICALLY CONNECTED ONLY!
I am blessed to live in an area with access to some of the best medical facilities and doctors in the nation. UCLA, Cedars Sinai, St. Johns, USC – all worthless if my insurance coverage denies top-notch coverage at these facilities, or even worse, denies me medically-necessary treatment because it is been judged “experimental” to hold down costs.
Everyone should be concerned …
New Affordable Care US health plans will exclude top hospitals
Americans who are buying insurance plans over online exchanges, under what is known as Obamacare, will have limited access to some of the nation’s leading hospitals, including two world-renowned cancer centres.
Amid a drive by insurers to limit costs, the majority of insurance plans being sold on the new healthcare exchanges in New York, Texas, and California, for example, will not offer patients’ access to Memorial Sloan Kettering in Manhattan or MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, two top cancer centres, or Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, one of the top research and teaching hospitals in the country.
Experts say the move by insurers to limit consumers’ choices and steer them away from hospitals that are considered too expensive, or even “inefficient”, reflects the new competitive landscape in the insurance industry since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare law.
It could become another source of political controversy for the Obama administration next year, when the plans take effect. Frustrated consumers could then begin to realise what is not always evident when buying a product as complicated as healthcare insurance: that their new plans do not cover many facilities or doctors “in network”. In other words, the facilities and doctors are not among the list of approved providers in a certain plan.
Under some US health insurance plans, consumers can elect to visit medical facilities that are “out of network”, but they would probably incur high out of pocket costs and may need referrals to prove that such care is medically necessary.
The development is worrying some hospital administrators who see the change as an unintended consequence of the ACA. Read more at: New Affordable Care US health plans will exclude top hospitals - FT.com
Bottom line …
Obamacare is designed for the masses – to curtail costs, to promote efficiencies, to control individual lives for political reasons, and to give socialists embedded in the system perpetual control over government.
How it works is simple. If you are not wealthy or have a commonly-treatable condition, your life hangs in the balance. (From my blog post: What you need to know about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act)
Approving or denying care according to computerized criteria that is designed to provide adequate healthcare to the 80% masses while rejecting the specialized healthcare that may be required to save the lives or improve the quality of care in the 20% outliers. This can be easily illustrated using a standard statistical “bell curve” found in all areas of science and statistics.
Even if you do manage to get insurance coverage, will it be sufficient to cover your medical needs without delay or denial?
In the final analysis, we need to remove the progressive socialist democrats who forced Obamacare down our throats in the 2014 congressional election cycle. Vote as if your life depended on it – because this time you life literally depends on fixing the healthcare system and removing the socialists and communists from power.
-- steve
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