Word comes of yet another big plus of Obamacare. This one concerns the fact that doctors are now being warned that due to arcane Obamacare insurance reimbursement policies they could find themselves in the position of being unable to collect payment for treatments rendered. So says the American Medical Association (AMA) . You see, apparently Obamacare provides patients who obtain subsidized coverage through state insurance exchanges with a 90-day grace period before their policies can be canceled for non-payment. Insurers do not have to pay physicians for services incurred during the last 60 days of a policy that has been terminated for non-payment. My wife works in a doctor’s office and was talking about this very thing just the other day.
What this means is that insurers are now permitted to retroactively deny patients coverage when a policy is terminated at the conclusion of the grace period. "The grace period rule imposes a risk for uncompensated care on physicians," AMA President Ardis Dee Hoven said in a statement. Ms. Hoven went on to say, "Managing risk is typically a role for insurers, but the grace period rule transfers two-thirds of that risk from the insurers to physicians and health care providers." Ya know, there is nothing about this socialistic boondoggle that has an up side. It has accomplished nothing of what was promised, and like everything that has come from this administration, it has only succeeded in making things very much worse.
Meanwhile, the AMA has issued some guidelines that are supposedly designed to help physicians minimize the chances of they’re being stuck with unpaid patient bills. These include suggested administrative policies for doctors and proposed financial agreements for patients to sign in which they directly assume liability for unpaid insurance bills. The association has also urged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to modify the grace period regulation so that physicians are promptly notified if a patient is not paying their insurance premiums. Right, like any of that is likely to take place. And in this era of Barry, too many people are now of the opinion that just because they sign something there’s no obligation to follow through.
Those who can remember that far back will recall that it was the AMA who was a big supporter of Obamacare, that even though most physicians disapproved of the association's stance. Which should tell you a lot about the political leanings of this organization. Polling of doctors also shows they are skeptical that Obamacare will improve medical service delivery or help them make a living, The Daily Caller reported. But then I think most of us realize that the intent behind this thing all along had nothing to do with actually improving anything or lowering costs. The sole motivation behind the Democrats’ creating this obamanation in the first place was to create a way that would provide to our government an improved method of controlling We the people.
No matter how many lies we keep being told about this monumental debacle, the end result is that it improves absolutely nothing more than that the government now has the ability to dictate what healthcare coverage we are now able obtain for ourselves. No longer will healthcare options be decided between the physician and the patient, but by some faceless bureaucrat hidden away in some cubicle. And oddly enough, the implementation of this thing has resulted in more people losing coverage than have actually gained coverage. And now we’re finding out that doctors are, what, likely to end up providing healthcare for free? I mean the insanity that is Obamacare seems to know no bounds. And it shows what happens every time the government gets involved.
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