If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, period – Barack Hussein Obama and Senate Democrats 2009-2013. The ObamaCARE doctor crisis hasn’t hit the entire country yet, but it’s already beginning in the largest state, California.
The other part of the President’s promise, “you can keep your doctors” is also (not surprisingly) turning out to be a lie. As reported in the LA Times, not only are people finding their doctors are not in their new plan’s network, but some are finding out even if the insurance company claims their doctors are part of the network, when they show up at the doctor’s office they are disappointed to find their doctor does not accept their insurance.
Some people believe this is exactly how Obama wanted it to happen—a total collapse of our medical system driving people to beg for a “single-payer” system.
This is just one state and doesn’t even cover the fact that many major hospitals are no longer part of people’s plans. 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 centers, or Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, one of the top research and teaching hospitals in the country.
This points to a problem with Obamacare and most progressive redistribution plans. The ultimate goal is not to raise the care of the “have-nots” but to create one very mediocre middle. With the elimination of some of the nations top hospitals from the Obamacare health insurance plans almost everybody’s healthcare will be worse and only the rich will be able to use the very best.