
Why does Obama want doctors overworked and underpaid?
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An incredible number of doctors nationwide are refusing to participate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Obama's largest and most decisive act while in the White House.
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Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
10/30/2014 (1 decade ago)
Published in Politics & Policy
Keywords: U.S., Affordable Healthcare Act, Obamacare, Doctors, Obama
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - More than 214,000 doctors nationwide will not participate in the new healthcare plans, a survey by the Medical Group management Association reveals.
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The number was totaled from survey results through May of 2014, but that number appears to be growing as doctors are forced to take burdensome costs.
That number is about 25% of the 892,851 actual, active professional physicians in the United States, as reported by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
It also appears that 70% of Californian doctors will not participate in the ACA plans.
One of the key factors in this refusal seems to be reimbursements.
"It is estimated that where private plans pay $1.00 for a service, Medicare pays $0.80, and ACA exchange plans are now paying about $0.60," think-tank American Action Forum reported. "For example, Covered California plans are setting their plan fee schedules in line with that of Medi-Cal-California's Medicaid Program-which means exchange plans are cutting provider reimbursement by up to 40%."
Secondly, Obamacare expects doctors to take on more patients to make up for this major loss in revenue. This isn't happening though, because primary care doctors already have more patients than they are capable of adequately handling.
"Furthermore, physicians are worried that exchange plan patients will be sicker than the average patient because they may have been without insurance for extended periods of time, and therefore will require more of the PCPs time at lower pay," the study went on to say.
Even more worryingly, the study suggests that doctors might not even get paid at all.
An MGMA study has indicated that 75% of ACA patients that have already seen doctors have chosen plans with very high deductibles. As most of these patients are low-income, doctors worry that when the patients can't meet the deductibles, they will end up footing the bill.
Also, the plans require that insurers cover customers for 90 days after they have stopped paying insurance premiums. The insurer covers the first 30, but doctors are required to recoup any payment for service during the last 60 days.
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