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Originally posted by: hoops2
Interesting article from IBD on the problems of Medicaid.
Its ridiculously low reimbursement rates — in some areas, Medicaid pays less than 40% of what private insurers pay — had already driven nearly a third of doctors to refuse new Medicaid patients.
In California, more than half of the doctors have closed their doors to Medicaid. That, in turn, led to chronic doctor shortages in many areas for existing Medicaid patients, who then ended up in the ER looking for care, getting lousy care, or going without.
The problem is that, rather than fixing this badly broken system, ObamaCare is shoving millions more into it. In fact, twice as many people who applied through an ObamaCare exchange in the first three months ended up on Medicaid rather than a private insurance plan.
With these added millions competing for increasingly scarce doctors, many will likely end up piling into ERs. And, since an ER visit won't cost them, they'll have even more incentive to make that the place to go.
Many critics of ObamaCare pointed out this adverse side effect long ago, but their concerns were, of course, ignored. As a result, millions now stuck in Medicaid will learn the hard way that ObamaCare is an empty promise
Originally posted by: hoops2
Interesting article from IBD on the problems of Medicaid.
Its ridiculously low reimbursement rates — in some areas, Medicaid pays less than 40% of what private insurers pay — had already driven nearly a third of doctors to refuse new Medicaid patients.
In California, more than half of the doctors have closed their doors to Medicaid. That, in turn, led to chronic doctor shortages in many areas for existing Medicaid patients, who then ended up in the ER looking for care, getting lousy care, or going without.
The problem is that, rather than fixing this badly broken system, ObamaCare is shoving millions more into it. In fact, twice as many people who applied through an ObamaCare exchange in the first three months ended up on Medicaid rather than a private insurance plan.
With these added millions competing for increasingly scarce doctors, many will likely end up piling into ERs. And, since an ER visit won't cost them, they'll have even more incentive to make that the place to go.
Many critics of ObamaCare pointed out this adverse side effect long ago, but their concerns were, of course, ignored. As a result, millions now stuck in Medicaid will learn the hard way that ObamaCare is an empty promise
I already know my clinic will be accepting very few if any medicaid patients for that very reason.I don't believe it's limited to my clinic either.
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