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In reply to the discussion: Physicians move from The USA to Canada for better life [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Instead we got a system that guarantees Big Insurers their protection monies, and those insurers, just like Obama's buddies on Wall Street, face few penalties no matter what they do.
Meanwhile numerous requirements are in place that to be part of the ACA a person has to report continually to the government on such things as whether they are or aren't pregnant, whether that pregnancy ended through abortion, miscarriage, still birth or a child, etc. (I hope we don't come to find out that those personal records are reported to the anti-abortion crowd.)
The onus in Obamacare is to the individual, not to the Big Insurance Corporation.
Already, people in Marin County Calif are finding out that although they signed up to be covered by Big Insurer "Anthem," that they were "tricked" by Anthem into what their coverage would be about. Specifically they were fooled regarding which physicians were part of the "Anthem" program.
The photos of doctors displayed on the Anthem California Covered web page depicted actual doctors that Marinites know and like.
Only it turns out that NONE of the those doctors actually are part of that program. They didn't like or trust Anthem, and they also did not provide their photos to Anthem. I would call that fraud on the part of "Anthem" plain and simple. So is the Obama administration going to go after Anthem? Will state regulators in California go after them? (If John Garamendi (D) was still the state Insurance Commissioner, these Anthem folks would be in trouble big time, but he is now in Congress.)
We had "reform" in 2009, but it wasn't really reform. It was simply an insistence that the public be forced to pay protection monies to big insurers.