◼ (I)n just five weeks, millions of additional Americans will be covered by (Medicaid), many of them older people with an array of health problems. - via @nytimes
...In California, with the nation’s largest Medicaid population, many doctors say they are already overwhelmed and are unable to take on more low-income patients....
“There could easily be 10,000 patients looking for us, and we’re just not going to be able to serve them,” said Dr. Flores, who is also the chairman of the family medicine department at White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles.
California officials say they are confident that access will not be an issue. But the state is expecting to add as many as two million people to its Medicaid rolls over the next two years — far more than any other state. They will be joining more than seven million people who are already in the program here. One million of the newly eligible will probably be enrolled by July 2014, said Mari Cantwell, an official with the state’s Department of Health Care Services.
On top of that, only about 57 percent of doctors in California accept new Medicaid patients, according to a study published last year in the journal Health Affairs
◼ Medicaid Fraud: Obamacare promise of free quality healthcare. Millions who lose their health plans and are enticed or forced onto Medicaid will find out they also have lost quality health care. - William A. Jacobson/Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion
It may be the biggest Obamacare lie of all.
Not that you can keep your health care plan if you like your plan.
Not that you can keep your doctor if you like your doctor.
Not all of the phony cost estimates and supposed efficiencies.
The biggest lie of all is that 15-30 million additional people who will be enticed or shoved onto Medicaid will receive quality health care.
In reality, they will receive health care “insurance,” but there will be few doctors willing to see them because the reimbursement rates are so low.
