"Medical Homelessness"

[Justin Bilyj]

Can't find a doctor who will accept your newly subsidized Obamacare? You aren't alone...

ConsumerWatch: Some Covered California Patients Say They Can’t See A Doctor « CBS San Francisco

 

[GreenSky]

Somehow my son found a quality ENT doc. The guy is great and scheduled sinus surgery.

Finding an in-network facility has been this side of impossible. They finally found a surgical center willing to do it for $250 plus whatever the out of network benefit would be.

Good thing my son doesn't have the old policy with it's large network. Wouldn't want access to medical care to be an issue.

Rick

 

[Dave020]

Somehow my son found a quality ENT doc. The guy is great and scheduled sinus surgery.

Finding an in-network facility has been this side of impossible. They finally found a surgical center willing to do it for $250 plus whatever the out of network benefit would be.

Good thing my son doesn't have the old lesser/inferior policy with it's large network. Wouldn't want access to medical care to be an issue.

Rick

Fixed it for you!.........

 

[DS4]

Your dog Sarah rec'd better care than your son Andy.

 

[GreenSky]

Your dog Sarah rec'd better care than your son Andy.

Well, I love my dog.

Rick

 

[G.Gordon]

So far I haven't had an issue with provider limitations. There are those I enrolled that have had to change specialist or even whole medical centers, but this is not an issue because they were uninsured. My response is, "You can still go to that doctor, he/she is out of network, the plan will pay 50%, that is better than you were before." Reality and truth are what they are and help get the point through to those effected by this system.

The few that dropped coverage to take ACA plans did so after we looked up their doctors, some still enrolled even if they lost providers, the savings made that relationship with the doctor no so important.

 

[somarco]

Most women are not willing to give up their GYN or pediatrician. If someone is receiving care for a critical illness or injury, changing providers is generally not in the cards.

Beyond that, changing to pay less in exchange for longer wait times and reduced level of care is something many are willing to do.

 

[GreenSky]

Beyond that, changing to pay less in exchange for longer wait times and reduced level of care is something many are willing to do.

It's the patriotic thing to do. Anyone unwilling to support our president's plan is a traitor and a domestic terrorist.

Rick

 

[houcoogster]

Can't find a doctor who will accept your newly subsidized Obamacare? You aren't alone...

ConsumerWatch: Some Covered California Patients Say They Can’t See A Doctor « CBS San Francisco

Is it possible that she is lying? How do we know she even paid her premium? Secondly maybe she bought a Bronze plan that has a $5000 deducible before Dr. Visits are covered so she continues to use the Govt.clinic for routine stuff and keeps the Bronze for the big stuff. Or it could be that maybe she bought a silver plan and the Dr. co-pays are $35 vs. the $20 Co-pay the Govt.clinic charges. I know this kind of stuff is an issue because I dealt with it many times during OE. These lower income folks that have never had HI before are a whole new breed of cat.

Now the other side of the coin...... I had a big carrier here assigning some of my clients a PCP that wasn't in the network any longer. I called and explained this to them but they couldn't stop it from happening they couldn't remove the doc from the list. This has now been fixed...but yes it was frustrating. I had another case where 2 docs were partners and they split up. Both were on the network, my client used to see one of the docs, but instead picked the other as his PCP. The new PCP doc said he couldn't see him because they have an agreement to not take away patients from each other. We had to find a whole new PCP for him and he has his appt on May 1.

Things will sort themselves out in time. It has already improved dramatically from just 3 months ago. I'm cautiously optimistic at this point.

 

[goillini52]

It's the patriotic thing to do. Anyone unwilling to support our president's plan is a traitor and a domestic terrorist.

Rick

Hey, some of our President's best friends are terrorists(Bill Ayers is the one that got O'bama into politics)! Not that there's anything wrong with that.