Quote Originally Posted by peggy View Post
Rob Rob Rob! What are we going to do with you! LOL
You really need to stop listening to rumors and people who just want to scare you.

Number 1, (a bit from another thread) All cops aren't bad. Really, they're not. In fact, I'd venture to guess MOST are pretty good, and show remarkable restraint considering what they face on a daily basis. Personally I'm surprised every cop doesn't come to believe everyone is a bad person up to no good. Just think of who they encounter everyday. Drunks, thugs, child abusers, etc... Cops are there to deal with the worst of society, or the best at their worst. EVERYONE they deal with is having a bad day, for starters...

Now, for the medical rumors, let me say it again. The government did NOT take over health care, or the insurance companies. Obama does NOT own, run, direct, or otherwise fiddle in the insurance companies. Obamacare is simply a set of rules and regulations insurance companies must follow to do business in this country, the main rule being 'You cannot screw your customers." Not that they don't still try, and clever companies will always find a way to screw you, but..I digress. Anyway, other businesses are regulated so all this uproar about this regulation is simply because a democrat did it...and a black one at that! But again, I digress.
Anyway, if doctors who treat people who bought through the exchange are not getting their money fast enough, it is THE INSURANCE COMPANIES who aren't paying. This is because, these are simply plans bought through the exchange from the same insurance companies who sold them before the exchange. Blame the insurance company. Obama doesn't own them, Obamacare doesn't own or run them, no one is responsible here EXCEPT the insurance company.
The exchange isn't welfare, or medicare/Medicaid. Sure, those getting subsidies do buy through the exchange, but they don't make the whole of the exchange.

Let me explain it this way. When you work for a large corporation, that company buys insurance for their employees by the power of numbers. It is GROUP insurance and just like a food co-op they get a better deal because of the large pool of people/customers. The exchange is like that. It's a co-op. Instead of food it's insurance and anyone can buy into that co-op.
Now, knowing this was going to be a huge pool of people/customers, a win for insurance business, they said we will give you access to this big pool of people, but you must follow some rules to gain this customer base. Most insurance companies, being in it for profit, saw the benefit of this and agreed to follow these rules.

So there you have it. No hokus-pokus, no government take over, no evil liberal plot to deny you your freedom/guns/bibles/whatever. It's just the government finally putting some rules and regulations on an unregulated industry that took huge advantage of many people.
that is a lot of, ummm, information.

But Rob asked if is is true that "doctors are starting not to accept people who have purchased insurance through the exchanges" due to not enough reimbursement, saying nothing about timeliness of reimbursement.

And the answer to that is yes. Yes, that is happeneing. Physicians have chosen not to accept exchange based insurance coverage.