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Dr. Eowyn posted: "While the multi-millionaire dollar national Obamacare
sign-up website, HealthCare.gov, is crashing, some Americans are signing up
for medical insurance on state Obamacare exchanges, although not all states
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<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/> Top U.S. hospitals are
opting out of
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[image:
new+medical+symbol]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/newmedicalsymbol1.jpg>While
the multi-millionaire dollar national Obamacare sign-up website,
HealthCare.gov, is crashing, some Americans *are* signing up for medical
insurance on state Obamacare exchanges, although not all states have set up
exchanges.
_______________
*Note:* "Exchanges<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_marketplace>"
are health insurance marketplaces -- organizations set up to facilitate the
purchase of health insurance in every state of the United States in
accordance with Obamacare. Exchanges provide a set of government-regulated
and standardized health care plans from which individuals may purchase
health insurance eligible for federal subsidies. All exchanges must be
fully certified and operational by January 1, 2014, under federal law.
Enrollment in the marketplaces started on October 1, 2013 and will continue
for six months.
_______________
*If you are among those Americans who've signed up on state exchanges, you
may be in for a nasty surprise: Many of the top hospitals in the U.S. are
opting out of Obamacare altogether*, thereby showing that the POS's promise
-- that insurance companies will be competing for your dollars under
Obamacare -- is yet another of his wholly invented fantasies lies.
Tori Richards reports for Watchdog.org (via US News & World
Report<http://health.usnews.com/health-news/hospital-of-tomorrow/articles/2013/10/30/top-hospitals-opt-out-of-obamacare>),
Oct. 30, 2013, that *Americans who sign up for Obamacare will be getting a
big surprise if they expect to access premium health care that may have
been previously covered under their personal policies.* *Most of the top
hospitals will accept insurance from just one or two companies operating
under Obamacare. *
*While Obamacare regulations have indeed made insurance more affordable by
putting caps on insurance premiums, many insurers are coping with the
reduced premiums by offering top-tier doctors and hospitals far less cash
for services rendered. And so, many of America's top hospitals are simply
opting out of Obamacare.*
UnitedHealth's board of directors' Wilsensky explains: "Many companies have
selectively entered the exchanges because they are concerned that (the
exchanges) will be dominated by risky, high-using populations who wanted
insurance (before Obamacare) and couldn't afford it. They are pressed to
narrow their networks to stay within the premiums."
A few, like No. 1-rated Johns Hopkins in Maryland, are mandated under state
law to accept all insurance companies. Other than that, the hospital with
the largest number of insurance companies is University Hospitals Case
Medical Center in Cleveland with just four. Fully *11 of the 18 hospitals
had just one or two carriers.*
Insurers operating in the exchanges are apparently hesitant to talk about
the trade-off between price and quality. Two of the nation's largest
insurers – Wellpoint and Aetna – refused to respond to a dozen calls and
emails from WatchDog.org over the course of a week.
*Watchdog.org says if you have a better chance of getting a top quality
hospital if you purchase your medical insurance on your own, outside
Obamacare.* For example, fourth-ranked Cleveland Clinic accepts
dozens<http://my.clevelandclinic.org/patients-visitors/billing-insurance/accepted-insurance.aspx>of
insurance plans if you buy one on your own. But go through Obamacare
and
you have just one choice: Medical Mutual of Ohio.
*To makes matters worse, many state exchanges don't even list the insurance
companies on their web sites. Some that do, like California, don't provide
names of doctors or hospitals* although the price differences among
hospitals "can be pretty profound," said Joe Mondy, spokesman for Cigna
insurance. "When you are doing a cost comparison with doctors, you should
look up the quality of the hospital as well. Hospital 'Y' could be great at
pediatrics and not great at surgery."
Josh Archambault, senior fellow with the think tank Foundation for
Government Accountability who has extensively studied the Affordable Care
Act Obamacare, said: "In many cases, consumers are shopping blind when it
comes to what doctors and hospitals are included in their Obamacare
exchange plans. These patients will be in for a rude awakening once they
need care, and get stuck with a big bill for going out-of-network without
realizing it." All of this represents a larger problem with Obamacare. "It
reflects deeper issues in implementation. *Some hospitals and doctors don't
even know if they are in the network*."
*Watchdog.org <http://watchdog.org/> looked at the top 18 hospitals
nationwide as ranked by U.S. News and World Report for
2013-2014<http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals>,
and contacted each hospital to determine if it takes health insurance under
Obamacare. Here's what Watchdog.org
found<http://health.usnews.com/health-news/hospital-of-tomorrow/articles/2013/10/30/which-top-hospitals-take-your-health-insurance-under-obamacare>(click
image to enlarge):
*
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hospitals2]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/hospitals2.jpg>
H/t my friend Sol
*~Eowyn*
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