If they can't heave health care than neither should you! The hidden agenda behind Obamacare!

When President Obama undertook his extensive campaign to pass the Affordable Care Act (ACA) one of his chief promises was that individuals were guaranteed the right to keep their current physicians, another was that the ACA would allow those on the new health care plan to have easy access to primary care physician.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Olivia Papa, a 61-year-old resident of Naples, Florida, has found that this is just not the case, and since she has signed up for the new health care plan access to a doctor, any doctor, has been impossible.

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In 2013 Papa signed up for the new health plan, and her insurance company assigned her a doctor. Being relatively healthy, she did not attempt to see her doctor until November of this year, and after numerous phone calls, was unable to get an appointment.

"They told me that they were not on the plan, they were never on the plan and they'd been trying to get their name off the plan all year," said Papa.

The next doctor was no different. She left messages trying to schedule an appointment but "they never called back."

Over 6.7 million Americans gained insurance because of the 2013 ACA. This influx flooded the primary care system, which now is struggling to keep up with the new demand.

A survey conducted by The Physicians Foundation showed that 81% of all doctors in the United States consider themselves either over-extended or at full capacity.

More shockingly, 44% of doctors in the U.S. plan to leave or diminish their time in the field, either by cutting back the number of patients they see, retire, work part-time or even close their practice to new patients.

"Family doctors are seeing a pretty significant increase in requests for appointments from new patients," said Dr. Wanda Filer, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and a primary care doctor in Pennsylvania.

Simultaneously, insurance companies are limiting the number of doctors and providers they cover in order to cut costs. This has caused even more restrictions and now, many patients are either wholly unable to get an appointment, or are unable to get one in a reasonable amount of time.

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