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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I blame the government for having too few seats at residency programs. We simply do not have enough doctors if everyone has access to healthcare. The system worked fine before, but only because so many people couldn’t afford to see doctors [/quote]

Before the ACA, the system was not working fine. Go back and read the media articles describing the acute issues people faced at the time.[/quote]

The ACA tried to fix problems, but as if often the case, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.  ACA increased the amount of reporting, imposed onerous rules and regulations, and continues to reimburse less and less.  It has now added millions of new people to the system while the number of doctors stays the same.  It has blown up our entire healthcare system.

Doctors are fed up and are ditching all insurance, so now you have thousands and thousands of people paying out the a$$ for insurance they can’t even use anymore and are being asked to fork out thousands more for an exclusive membership just to keep docs on retainer.  It squeezes many more people towards the remaining docs that do take insurance, which are fewer and far between.  Just because you can look on your insurance website and find PCPs thst accept the insurance doesn’t mean you’ll get access. So many don’t even take new patients anymore, or it is impossible to schedule an appointment, rendering your insurance worthless.  Too bad for you if you don’t have an extra $2000+ per year per person in your household to pay for a membership fee.  You’re screwed.[/quote]
Imagine how people without insurance felt, then, when they couldn't go to the doctor when they were sick because they had no insurance.  And no, medicaid doesn't pay for such people. These people are too "rich" for medicaid, but too poor to get private insurance.

The subsidies ACA provided helped millions of people get insurance, and many who went to see a PCP for the first time in their lives.

ACA is not perfect, but without a viable alternative, it's here to stay.  And like I posted earlier, even some Rs have given into ACA and want it shored up with more people signing up for it.

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Great. And now no one can get healthcare, even if they have insurance because physicians are closing their doors and only want elitists paying thousands per year in cash out of pocket.

So glad we are now all in the gutter. [/quote]

Two minutes on Google or your insurance company’s website would lead you to a PCP who takes your insurance. Instead you’re here. Why?
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When I [b]turned 65 and enrolled in Medicare I contacted a primary care practice in NW DC that is listed as taking Medicare and Blue Cross and was told they are now a concierge practice and no longer participate in any insuranc[/b]e. It is snowballing here because no primary practice wants to be left with only the patients the other practices avoid. I use Urgent Care for primary care and contact a specialist directly if I need one. The specialty practices all have some docs who take Medicare and federal insurance because that’s where their volume is. [/quote]

Sounds like a datapoint of one? You called one doctors office. Yeah that means there’s a huge problem.[/quote]

You’re nice. Since you are a jackals who needs more explanation. I have lived here for more than two decades and know the market here. We already went through this with my spouse who called multiple practices that either don’t take insurance or aren’t taking new patients. When I enrolled in Medicare, I called the only primary practice in my part of DC that was listed as participating in Medicare and they are now concierge also, so I bypassed the primary care idiocy and went to a specialist. [/quote]

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