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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (23914)	6/29/2012 6:35:19 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Here I thought the vast majority of the 30 million newly insured would be covered by private insurance companies. 1 - 30 million new insured is rather unlikely. The changes drive up the cost of insurance, many individuals and companies may pay the less expensive penalty. The clearest case of people who would gain insurance if the law stood exactly as initially written was the people who would now be eligible for Medicaid, but the decision limits the federal government's ability to force the states to expand Medicaid eligibility. 2 - My comment wasn't really about Obamacare. Its about the expanding of costs for doctors (some of which come from government and Obamacare is relevant to that, but its far from the whole picture) combined with the below market reimbursement from Medicaid (and to a lesser extent Medicare). Medicaid patients already often have problems finding doctors. Its only likely to get worse.