If you like your doctor . . . you can forget about him under Obamacare
One unpleasant surprise in the grotesquely misnamed “Affordable” Care Act is how narrow the choices are. As even so Obama-friendly a newpaper as the New York Times is now admitting, “No matter what kind of health plan consumers choose, they will find fewer doctors and hospitals in their network — or pay much more for the privilege of going to any provider they want.”
Insurers are doing this to control costs. Plans sold on the exchanges are barred from charging customers fairly but instead must overcharge many to subsidize those with existing expensive health conditions. Insurers are doing this by narrowing options. Because getting to pick a doctor you like is, under Obamacare, apparently just a bad habit:
“We have to break people away from the choice habit that everyone has," said Marcus Merz, the chief executive of PreferredOne, an insurer in Golden Valley, Minn.
