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Obamacare and Cancer. It ain't pretty.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 10:22 pm
Posted on 3/31/14 at 10:22 pm
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Some of America's best cancer hospitals are off-limits to many of the people now signing up for coverage under the nation's new health care program.
Doctors and administrators say they're concerned. So are some state insurance regulators. An Associated Press survey found examples coast to coast.
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Before President Barack Obama's health care law, a cancer diagnosis could make you uninsurable. Now, insurers can't turn away people with health problems or charge them more. Lifetime dollar limits on policies, once a financial trap-door for cancer patients, are also banned. The new obstacles are more subtle.
To keep premiums low, insurers have designed narrow networks of hospitals and doctors. The government-subsidized private plans on the exchanges typically offer less choice than Medicare or employer plans. By not including a top cancer center an insurer can cut costs.
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The legislation contains provisions that directly target patients with cancer because their care is perceived as costly. These policies couldn’t be more badly timed.
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Insurers are barred from using the other tools that they’ve traditionally employed to keep the costs of policies in check: cost sharing, underwriting risk, adjusting premiums and benefits. The only thing that health plans are permitted to do under Obamacare is narrow the networks of providers that they contract with. So that’s precisely what they’re doing. By contracting with fewer providers, insurers can cheapen their coverage by clamping down on what doctors prescribe.
This will hit cancer patients especially hard.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 10:43 pm to La Place Mike
Forward mother frickers
Posted on 3/31/14 at 10:49 pm to La Place Mike
This is fricking terrible. Somebody smart please get in and repeal this bitch.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 10:57 pm to La Place Mike
This can't really surprise anyone can it?
Posted on 3/31/14 at 11:14 pm to La Place Mike
Bunch of people in here that didn't read the bill obviously.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 11:46 pm to La Place Mike
I bet that crafty John Roberts still has a trick up his sleeve!!!
Posted on 3/31/14 at 11:52 pm to La Place Mike
FWIW, MD Anderson is on the Blue Cross provider list for the policies they offer through Healthcare.gov.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 7:39 am to La Place Mike
My mom's best friend got diagnosed with breast cancer 5 years ago or so. Well one day her husband just up and quit his job (he is the kind that can't work for somebody else) and they lost insurance. Last time I was home she was over at the house talking about how great it was that she finally had insurance again and could start going to the doctor again. Then my mom said she called her doctor and they said that her insurance was accepted there. At first I was like toldya, but then I was like this shite is costing an arm and a leg and it isn't even covering ppl just giving them a card.
She still thinks it is the greatest thing since sliced bread though. :banghead:
She still thinks it is the greatest thing since sliced bread though. :banghead:
Posted on 4/1/14 at 8:50 am to La Place Mike
It's all part of the liberal progressive plan, single payer. Issues like this will be used to demonize insurance companies justifying complete government control of healthcare.
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