New Affordable Care US health plans will exclude top hospitals
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington
Americans who are buying insurance plans over online exchanges, under what is known as Obamacare, will have limited access to some of the nation’s leading hospitals, including two world-renowned cancer centres.
Amid a drive by insurers to limit costs, the majority of insurance plans being sold on the new healthcare exchanges in New York, Texas, and California, for example, will not offer patients’ access to Memorial Sloan Kettering in Manhattan or MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, two top cancer centres, or Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, one of the top research and teaching hospitals in the country.
Experts say the move by insurers to limit consumers’ choices and steer them away from hospitals that are considered too expensive, or even “inefficient”, reflects the new competitive landscape in the insurance industry since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare law.
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Let’s not forget about the deductibles….
The least expensive policy has a minimum of $5000.00 deductibles.
Talk about taking the “affordable” out of the “Affordable Care Act”!
“Change you can believe in” Do you believe it now?
Obummer typical idiot. The American people aint that dumb. we want to know what it COSTS.
We don’t care what it cost PER MONTH.
Its the real cost the smart people want to know.
Lets have an election today.
YOu lose. Back to Kenya Barry.
My healthcare plan includes some, but not all hospitals in Bregen County. That is the way insurance is. Not all doctors or hospitals are in every plan. My plan is pretty good and I go to the in-network doctors.
I wouldn’t expect the Affordable Plan to be better than mine. Mine is pretty expensive.