My hellacious health care nightmare -- Obamacare has ruined me

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184. you cannot just go and get on an exchange -

You have to have been at a certain level of poverty for some period of time prior to your wanting to get on The Exchange.

If I remember correctly -- you are a physician. You probably get a salary.

You have NO IDEA what it is like to be self employed, to not have that platinum policy that gives you a ton of goodies, in exchange for holding down your job.

Also, you do NOT live in California. This is a state with 37 million people. I gave up on the ACA, even though I qualified for the Exchange, because I could never get through on the phone lines. I finally decided that I would simply be healthy this year and hold my breath as next year I get MediCare.

Self employed people in my neighborhood have seen their monthly premiums go up $ 250 a month - at a time when our businesses are failing due to the fires here.

My doctor charges $ 100 more per visit than he did before the ACA. (Not his fault, his clinic made him do it.) Why this increase? Because the clinic's owners attitude is everyone has the ACA so it is only the Insurance World that is taking the hit. But that is the attitude - so watch as the government goes broke trying to keep up with all this.

Also, I can no longer even see my doctor - he just sent out a notice saying that due to an upsurge in his practice, and number of patients, he won't be available to most of us, unless it is a special matter. We will all be seeing the nurse practitioner instead.

One point two million people enrolled in the CA for the Exchange here in California, but there were no additional doctors or nurses. So now there is a long wait to see a doctor. If you can see a doctor.







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