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Sunday, 18 August 2013
The doctor won't see you now, because Obamacare doesn't pay him enough
Starting next year Obamacare is going to add 300,000 people to New Jersey's Medicaid rolls. Alas, there aren't any doctors volunteering to treat them.
Beginning in January, the Affordable Care Act is expected to open the door to 300,000 low-income New Jerseyans to get health coverage through Medicaid, but a recent survey found the majority of Garden State doctors won't be willing to treat them.
Fifty-four percent of primary care doctors and 56.5 percent of specialists in New Jersey said they did not plan to accept any new Medicaid patients in the coming year — more than any other state, according to a July report in the monthly publication Health Affairs.
Can you guess why?
C'mon, guess.
Medical groups say there's no mystery behind New Jersey doctors' lack of interest: The meager reimbursement rates.
Obamacare doesn't pay.
While Medicaid is a federal program, states also help pay the tab — and each determines how much doctors and other health care providers are reimbursed.
New Jersey pays a doctor $23.50 for an office visit with a Medicaid patient.
The Feds were supposed to bump up Medicaid reimbursements for at least two years. The Affordable Care Act explicitly requires it. But, and this isn't really a surprise, Dear Leader put the kibosh on that and blamed the Sequester.
Because, you know, he can unilaterally rewrite the law anytime he wants and his sycophants just smile with rapture. Meanwhile in the Real World his tyranny has actual consequences. And that means he can hand out 300,000 new Medicaid cards but they won't be worth the plastic they're made of.
Sorry Obamabots, the doctor won't see you now.
Posted at 11:08 by Chris Wysocki
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