"You will not be able to choose your doctor"

[question everything]

I heard some ad.

Talk to anyone who is covered by employer-provided health care. You will hear sob stories about how, when the employer changes insurance, families often lose their beloved physician.

[valerief]

1. We can't now. We have to choose in network and still pay 10% plus co-pay.

Outside the network, it's at least 20% and co-pays.

[cutlassmama]

5. Same here and my HMO doctor sucks n/t

[Raven]

2. BS. I've had my Doc for 30 years...through at least a half a dozen

canges in insurance...never a problem, never.

[question everything]

3. You are lucky and, I would say, in the minority

I had a co-worker who had to postpone an elective surgery because her scheduled surgeon was no longer on the new network.

[valerief]

6. You must pay cash. nt

[hileeopnyn8d]

9. You're kidding right?

It isn't BS. That may be true for you, but it most certainly hasn't been for me. Even within the same plan I've lost my primary care doctor at least five times in about as many years. Sure, I could go out of network and pay a whole lot more, but why should I?

The list of doctors in my plan (CIGNA) has grown smaller and smaller every year since 2001. The majority of the doctors on the provider list in my area are doctors in low-income clinics. Now, I have nothing against those clinics, but what it says to me is even though my employer and I pay substantial amounts every month, my insurance company shopped the lowest of prices. My premiums have gone up, my choices have gone down, their profits are rising.

Great for them, sucks for me, my employer and probably even the doctors.

[Arkana]

4. I just saw the shittiest fucking ad from the "Independent Women's Forum"

about how OMG SOCIALIZED MEDUHCINN IN ENGLAND and IF YOU HAVE BREAST CANCER, OBAMA WILL KILL YOU! BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA! RATIONED CARE! LINES! COMMIES! BLARGHGHAHARGHHAHGHFGHHGH!!!!!"

[elocs]

7. Some years ago the company I worked for was sold and switched insurance companies.

I could no longer keep my doctor of 30 years and was forced to go to a clinic where I didn't know anyone. So much for choosing my own doctor.

Rationing? Yes, private insurance companies do that too. My goddaughter who was 17 at the time was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the beginning of this year. By June the insurance company informed her by registered letter that she had used up her mental health care ration for the year and there would be no more money for her daughter's mental health care until 2010.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. we lost our dentist and our doc when my husbamds employer axed our plan

it was a HMO and they weren't covered under the new plan.

[nonsequitur]

10. I can tell you this, if the plan passed doesn't allow us to choose our..

doctors, I will not be happy and my wife will be furious. We like our doctors and are happy with our kids doctors. Our President said we could keep them and I am taking him at his word.

[question everything]

12. What he means it: you can stick with your plan

but if you, or your employer changes plan - then it is up in the air.

[LynnTheDem]

11. I can. I can go to any doctor I want to. But then, I'm lucky...

I live in a civilized country with "social healthcare".

God bless Canada.

[question everything]

13. LOL. Maybe this is why this thread has "less than zero"

the opinion about our current system

:hi:

[Fire1]

14. Such crap. n/t

[Oregone]

15. FYI, I have Canadian health care

And I can pick any doctor I want, regardless of my employment status