my doctor and health care.

In fact it boggles my mind.

The one payer system would have been great but it would have been even more complicated.

Please tell your doctor, the website works fine now. I enrolled today.

my friend has been on medicare for almost 6 months. 2 of her docs don't take medicare. one is her therapist. my friend had to stop seeing her because she can't afford to pay $150 a visit. the therapist has been treating her for years and knows she has money problems. one would think she would have worked out a sliding scale for my friend.

so most doctors still take it because they know they will get paid in a timely matter when the paper work is filled out properly.

whatever problems it has would be fixed because when everyone rich and poor have to be under the same umbrella, they can effect change for the better.

Insurance companies could still sell insurance for frills for those who can and want to pay for it but other countries have proved that the best coverage that is most cost effective is single payer.

be the Medicap plans to pay for what medicare doesn't.

My Doc doesn't like Obama or the ACA, but he's good at practicing medicine.

doesn't seem to have any effect on his practice. the reason i say this is because i live in a very conservative area.

my late husband had no problem with it, but we've always had gay and lesbian friends.

my former doctor who retired when he was almost 79 was against single payer. he was religious and most likely a republican, but he was a good doc.

But there's still time, Obama and too many people who have faith in it won't let it die.

If only we could regain the house and go to single payer.

he said the only way to get rid of special interests is to have progressives in the white house and congress.

let's face it the insurance lobby is very powerful.

He must know the difference...

could not get single payer, hate to throw cold water.

a public option. insurance companies like all big companies have powerful lobbyists.

Unemployment, Wars to pay for, troops everseas, and the party was somewhat undivided because of the bruising primaries.

I think they were shocked that they got health care at all, and what a battle it was. I still remember the good speeches made at the Senate and House by Dems....the blue dogs who feared losing their seat never went along with us, as well as some of the great northwest and texas. So yes, it was all Dems, but they were not of one mind.

I'm behind the ACA 100%, but we really need single payer.

We'll get there. I'm guessing 5-6 years of the ACA, and people will be open to single payer.

Every medical provider ought to support the ACA, but human beings are complex, and sometimes pig-headed. Not everyone trained in medicine will...

outnumber the ones who do. They say they're not compensated enough.

As of 2012, fewer than 13% of primary care physicians in this city would accept new Medicare patients. I believe one or two strictly Medicare clinics have opened recently because the situation was so dire and a few doctors/practitioners had a conscience.

i'm a senior on medicare with a medigap policy. thank goodness i have a doctor who would never refuse medicare. i also go to a pain clinic and i can't imagine those docs not taking medicare.

so they will continue to see me. I had to give up my orthopedist who had been treating my bad knee.

As I mentioned in my edited post, a couple strictly Medicare clinics have opened within the past year or two because the situation was really serious here for the older patients.

is all i am saying.

This is a Tampa story, but it's nationwide. A pre-emptive strike against perceived Medicare shortfalls by United Health Care, here.

they're risky.

http://wendellpotter.com/2013/04/medicare-advantage-or-disadvantage/

http://www.caring.com/articles/disadvantages-of-medicare-advantage-plans

Even then, people would have to sign up and the same website issues we're dealing with right now would be an issue. Moreover, some people who are on Medicare have a difficult time affording the supplemental insurance and get this - actually WANT to sign up for the Marketplace (but can't, as it is illegal to be sold insurance through the Marketplace if you're on Medicare).

The entire Medicare system would have to be overhauled and that was just not going to happen, unfortunately. Too many Democrats had issues with the ACA being 'too liberal' and a hard sell back home. The idea of selling single-payer or Medicare for All would've been infinitely more difficult.

expensive. my friend and her husband each pay $260 a month for their supplemental plan. then of course, there's the medicare which runs $104 a month each. she was thrilled when her husband turned 65 (she's a few years older) because she was paying so much for her employer based health care. turns out with medicare and supplements it's costing her about $20 a month more and several of her docs won't take medicare. she's disgusted.

i had one through IBM for $28 a month which also covered 65% of the cost of my drugs. the policy had a $4,000 deductible but also had a $4,000 max out of pocket.

IBM is dropping that plan so i got one with IBM's help. they're using "extend health". the new one is $64.50 a month with a $4800 out of pocket max. after the medicare deductible it will pick up 1/2 of the costs medicare doesn't cover. i took a humana part D for my drugs -- $12.40 a month. some drugs are subject to a deductible. the good thing is IBM is giving me $1,187 HRA. it will actually pay my premiums with a few bucks left over. i was told i could use the extra money for dental care.

the max out of pocket is very important. if a policy doesn't have one that's how you can go bankrupt. ACA requires their policies to have one.

thank you IBM. my husband was with them almost 43 years when he passed. they took good care of him and now they're taking care of me.

exchange site was not working, with just a phone call or the return of a card.



http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2013/10/oregon_has_cut_tally_of_those.html#incart_river

WA state has enrolled about 35,000 in Medicaid, about 4500 in marketplace.

Medicaid enrollment is much faster and easier than ACA, works much better. All it needs is people that will stand up and fight for it like they fight for donations from wealthy people.

Easier to figure out.

The lapse was that they didn't expect states to rely on the federal marketplace - not over half, anyway. If every state ran their own Marketplace, it wouldn't be near the issue.

brings, dropping the concern about profit for the ins cos, etc, it's a LOT simpler. Cheaper too.

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/11-1

it will probably happen state by state.

reimbursements as part of the ACA to go towards subsidies?

I've been hearing of doctors who refuse to accept any insurance whatsoever. Supposedly they're spending inordinate amounts of time fighting to get reimbursed from a bazillion different insurers and it's just not worth the trouble anymore. So they form a small self-insured co-op, kind of like a shoppers club and you pay them $5,000 or whatever per year. But that membership gets you same day service and covers all in-office procedures, lab work, surgery, etc. Not sure how they would handle hospitalization.

In general, I'm I'm favor of things that bypass the insurers, who add no value to health care delivery.

They can do intricate operations better and diagnose better so we can have as many as we need. But we'll still need some human doctors or at least human physician assistants.

lawsuits for people who've supposedly been harmed by it.

I like what some municipalities do... fund a medical students education, them have them remain in that area for four years while getting a living stipend. They pay off the medical degree costs by working at a reduced rate.