It’s really gotta suck if you live in New York and aren’t a Communist. Elderly New Yorkers are now losing their doctors, all thanks to ObamaCARE. According to the New York Post, UnitedHealthcare, is terminating contracts with up to 2,100 doctors in New York who serve about 8,000 Medicare Advantage patients in the New York metro region. Maybe this is the start of New York’s death panels.
Dr. Jonathan Leibowitz, who serves 30 patients under Medicare Advantage at his Brooklyn practice, said he was blindsided by UnitedHealthcare’s decision to give him the boot.
“A patient can’t see his doctor? What are they doing!” he asked.
UnitedHealthcare told Leibowitz that because of “significant changes and pressures in the health-care environment,” he’d be getting the ax on Jan. 1.
Leibowitz’s patients are furious. Alfred Gargiulio, who has cerebral palsy with a seizure disorder, has been seeing Leibowitz since 1993. “Obama had said I could keep my doctor. Now they’re doing away with my doctor. They kicked him out! After 20 years, that’s not right. We love Dr. Leibowitz,” said Gargiulio.
Imagine living in New York City being a senior on Medicare Advantage. You have a borderline Communist state governor in Andrew Cuomo, a socialist state Congress, and will have a full on Communist mayor in Bill de Blasio come November. These old people aren’t loving New York.