Err these millions who got health insurance under Obamacare got Medicaid, not Medicare. Medicaid is a rotten health plan that physicians are reticient to take new patients because the government negotiates down the repayment abysmally. As such, physicians can't afford to take on several new Medicaid patients.
http://obamacarefacts.com/sign-ups/obamacare-enrollment-numbers/
In 2014 about
8 million enrolled in Medicaid, in 2015 about 10 million did.
Millions more, who would otherwise not be insured, enrolled due to expanded coverage under the ACA and new requirements. This includes those enrolled under expanded employer coverage, and those who got covered outside of the Marketplace.
The reason so many millions got this Medicaid was because of extreme poverty
because the country is IMPLODING. These folks have no jobs and no Hope. What good is insurance under those circumstances? It's a benefit only if sick, if you get a physician to take you on, and then and only then does it help you.
And where is the tax money to pay for this?
It's not like Obama promised whatsoever? No wonder
people are up in arms.
Just wait when you're told you need to quit smoking and lose weight to cut down on the costs and still be covered.
Just wait until costs rise astronomically.
You do realize there is no magic wand suddenly producing physicians and rgistered nurses, right? That we can sign up impoverished people with Medicaid but unless we actually have more medical schools to train doctors (we haven'td any new ones created forever) and that we've been in a nursing shortage since the late seventies while maintaining a terrible attrition rate for those same nurses.
That adding more and more patients to the tiny handful of these medical staff leads to tons of medical record errors and misprescribing their medications, right?
OK, where are the new staff who will service them? Oh wait, there aren't any.
The whole thing is a fiasco.
Should people have access to healthcare? Sure. Should it be a basic benefit? Sure. Doesn't that mean they have FREAKIN' Jobs? Nope,
we let millions of illegals in because hey, they'll vote Democrat for more handouts. Yeah!
Say you're a business owner. The government tells you, "We want you to provide health care for these 8 million new patients. When you bill us for $200, we'll repay you $50." How long can you do that and keep the doors open to your business? How many of those millions can you reasonably handle when you're already full of patients? How can you afford to pay more office staff when the repayment is so abysmal?
Show me the math and the logic?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterub...cians-are-reluctant-to-see-medicaid-patients/
Medicaid only pays 61% of what Medicare pays in terms of reimbursement, and that's nothing compared to the actual bill. They government demands that only a tiny portion is paid on the bill. Sometimes it's a ruinous situation where the repayment is WORSE based upon the case, but not only this, say it's the birth of a child. A physician can be sued for some error for that might have happend 20 years ago on a delivery under Medicaid in which they netted less than $100. Can you imagine that? Do you realize that this is the most common lawsuit? Why are obstetricians leaving in droves? What obstetricians will there be, and what will it be like for patients under these rotten condition to see what few remain?
