What is the fault of the ACA is it took a well-functioning system and wrecked it. We all knew, before the fact, they were wrecking it, but they went right ahead and did it. And now the problems are like whack-a-mole, popping up all over the place.
And in fact, the very problems they CLAIMED were major problems (mostly lies) have become REAL problems: Primary care in the ER, uncompensated care in hospitals; inability to see Primary Care Providers, the price of drugs predictably going up, a curtailment of innovation, and vastly greater costs throughout the entire health care system. Meanwhile, the quality of care is in the tank
Pretty much everything we said would happen, happened. Pretty much nothing THEY said would happen, happened.
Medicaid expansion is a JOKE. It is flooded hospitals with patients who can't see doctors because the program doesn't pay adequately. Meanwhile, the costs are far higher than anyone predicted AND ERs are packed with Medicaids which, of course, don't cover their cost of care.
Hospitals have ALWAYS been more than willing to work payment plans. Nothing new there. But if you think the ACA has, in any way, improved the plight of the ordinary person, you simply do not know what is going on in the business of health care. And these things are not getting better over time. Today, in many areas, a Medicaid patient cannot get in to see a doctor at all. That was not the case before ACA. |
