Saturday, November 16, 2013

Now the other shoe….

President Obama’s now notorious promise was “If you like your health insurance plan, you can keep it. If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Keep Your Doctor.” Well, the first part turned out not to be true for many people, resulting in the political fuss over the past few weeks.

Now the second shoe is about to drop. Many people will find out that their doctor is not included in the new network they were forced to move to. See this story this morning from Reuters: UnitedHealth drops thousands of doctors from insurance plans.

If we thought there was a lot of fuss over the past two weeks about cancelled health insurance plans, wait until people begin to discover they can no longer go to the doctor they have used for years……