Having great insurance won't protect you if Obamacare is repealed and you require
hospital treatment.
When hospitals are forced to reduce quality of care due to Obamacare cutbacks, to reduce staff, etc., YOUR quality of care will suffer. It won't matter how great your own insurance is if the hospital has a deteriorating facility or doesn't have enough nurses.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/12/hospitals-fear-obamacare-repeal-may-create-financial-strain/98920498/
The Republican plan to overhaul Obamacare could have a dire impact on hospital finances, some health care experts warn, creating serious concerns about patient safety and health care quality.
Josh Sharfstein, a pediatrician and former top health official for the city of Baltimore and the state of Maryland, says the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) goes far beyond expanding health insurance coverage to millions of Americans so they can get the treatment they need. That insurance reimbursement also helps keep hospitals afloat, he says.
"It’s underappreciated how much the ACA has focused the health care system on delivering a higher quality of care. This could easily be lost," says Sharfstein, now a professor and associate dean at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "The consequences of hospitals being under financial distress include closing all together, stopping particular services that may be very necessary to the community and struggling to maintain quality of care."
All of the major hospital groups, including the American Hospital Association and those representing children's hospitals and psychiatric hospitals, came out against the new legislation last week. They cited the number of low income people who would become uninsured due to changes in the Medicaid program, as well as cuts in subsidies to those with ACA individual plans.
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