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In reply to the discussion: The CBO's other bombshell: the Affordable Care Act isn't imploding [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)13. The "implosion" reference refers to ins. cos. withdrawing...
and providers, too. It doesn't refer to people getting subsidized plans.
In many areas there are only a couple of insurers selling plans, and in some areas, only one. In some areas only HMOs are sold, no PPOs.
The ins. cos. are withdrawing from entire areas, and narrowing their provider lists and drug lists intentionally, to contain costs.
The subsidies part of the program is working well for those who qualify. It's the other parts that aren't working.
Does anyone here have an individual plan under the ACA? Just curious. I do. I am seeing these things...the closing of the ability to actually use the insurance policies in various areas.
Ryan claims the people are gaming the system. IMO, it's the ins. cos. that are gaming the system.
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The CBO's other bombshell: the Affordable Care Act isn't imploding [View all]
applegrove
Mar 2017
OP
good points AND every Doctor should be allowed to take a persons insurance. only 4 or 5 Corps?
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#24
Unfortunately America only has 4? giant Insurance Corporations & they're 'for profit' corporations.
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#30
Republicans & their Insurance Corps pretend that a million a year to treat cancer breaks THEIR bank
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#25
I was told for emergency your insurance plan covers(pays for) any emergency clinic.
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#27
They didn't qualify the statement as such and made it sound like the whole thing was going under
uponit7771
Mar 2017
#17
The Insurance Corporations limit a persons coverage to a tiny area near their zipcode.
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#26
I'm on 3rd year of healthcareDOTgov.-decent blue cross insurance & I can afford it, I'm happy.
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#22
I noticed Humana pulled out of the DOTgov website and spammed TV ads for their insurance instead.
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#38
I'm fortunate to live near Houston, hundreds of hospitals/Doctors. Insurance is easier to use here.
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#41
I agree - and welcome to DU! ACA good Bad for the GOP so it is trash it all the time for them.
NRaleighLiberal
Mar 2017
#32
Insurance companies did a lousy job pricing policies and defining networks
raising2moredems
Mar 2017
#36