© ThinkstockObamacare applicants across the country are finding their premiums are tripling, their favorite doctors aren't available, the physicians they can see are often far away and many prestigious hospitals offering specialized care are off-limits to them, according to a Washington Examiner survey of health insurance agents and brokers across the country
We talked with insurance agents across the country to hear how Obamacare is affecting their areas. Click a city to see which insurance companies, doctors and hospitals agents say are in and out of the Obamacare exchange in their areas. Insurance companies who have chosen not to be part of the exchanges are highlighted in redObamacare applicants across the country are finding their premiums are tripling, their favorite doctors aren't available, the physicians they can see are often far away and many prestigious hospitals offering specialized care are off-limits to them, according to a
Washington Examiner survey of health insurance agents and brokers across the country.
Agents associated with the National Association of Health Underwriters were contacted in 16 cites across the country.
The agents were all certified by state insurance regulators to sell health insurance policies within and without the
Obamacare exchanges.
Their responses provide an alarming picture of the profound changes Obamacare is forcing on patients and health care providers.
In parts of California, for example, low reimbursement rates have resulted in a doctor rebellion, as
nearly seven out of 10 doctors refuse to participate in the exchanges.San Diego broker Neil Crosby told the
Examiner that "65 to 70 percent of the providers have declined the reimbursement schedules the carriers are offering. They will not be providers in the exchange marketplace."
Similarly, agent David Fear in Sacramento said, "Roughly a third of the doctors are going to be accepted in the networks. I'm finding very few specialists in either the Anthem or Blue Shield networks."
Larry Harrison, an agent in Las Vegas, said the "lion's share" of doctors there are staying away from the exchanges.
Comment: We find it VERY interesting that this happens right after BBC did an expose (of sorts, there's not actually anything new to learn for those who already know the score about what the British government has been doing in Ireland) on the British 'military reaction force' driving around pretending to be terrorists in the 70s and 80s. We suspect that if this bomb had gone off we'd be hearing that it was a 'suicide car bomb', precisely what UK and US military intelligence were doing in Iraq. Kitson's 'pseudo-gangs' are alive and well.
For a more accurate history of British involvement in the north of Ireland, read this.