What good is health insurance if most of the doctors in your area don’t accept your plan?
That’s a question customers on Obamacare’s exchanges may be asking themselves. According to a new KFF analysis, exchange enrollees, on average, had access to only 40% of doctors in their area.
The exchanges, in other words, are failing at one of their most fundamental jobs: expanding access to quality health care. Taxpayers cannot afford to divert yet more public money to subsidizing substandard exchange plans, as Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has called for.
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Junk Health Insurance? It’s Called Obamacare
Sally C. Pipes
What good is health insurance if most of the doctors in your area don’t accept your plan?
That’s a question customers on Obamacare’s exchanges may be asking themselves. According to a new KFF analysis, exchange enrollees, on average, had access to only 40% of doctors in their area.
The exchanges, in other words, are failing at one of their most fundamental jobs: expanding access to quality health care. Taxpayers cannot afford to divert yet more public money to subsidizing substandard exchange plans, as Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has called for.
Read the full article at Newsmax
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.