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If you hit a paywall: http://pastebin.com/3badDzhY http://pastebin.com/3badDzhY > "Americans who are buying insurance plans over online exchanges, under what
by yapcguy 13y ago
If you hit a paywall:
http://pastebin.com/3badDzhY http://pastebin.com/3badDzhY
> "Americans who are buying insurance plans over online exchanges, under what is known as Obamacare, will have limited access to some of the nation’s leading hospitals, including two world-renowned cancer centres."
"Amid a drive by insurers to limit costs, the majority of insurance plans being sold on the new healthcare exchanges in New York, Texas, and California, for example, will not offer patients’ access to Memorial Sloan Kettering in Manhattan or MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, two top cancer centres, or Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, one of the top research and teaching hospitals in the country."
"Experts say the move by insurers to limit consumers’ choices and steer them away from hospitals that are considered too expensive, or even “inefficient”, reflects the new competitive landscape in the insurance industry since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare law."
Isn't this the same as existing insurance plans where you have a certain network of doctors or hospitals you have access to, and if you access services out of network, you have to pay?
I guess there is some controversy if insurance companies drop your plan which provides coverage to top hospitals, and you can't find a similar plan on the new exchanges to replace it, and if one does exist you have to pay an arm and a leg for it.