Obama-Care.And What About Those Who Live In Towns Lacking Doctors&Medical Access?

[TheSeventhTiger]

I am really going to feel so sorry for the millions of Romney supporters who may wait up to 3 hours in an ER/Private Practice to see a doctor while being forced to watch either MSNBC Or CNN.

 

[Care4all]

the Op's question is valid, and the ACA does address the issue...it just took one itty bitty google search to find the answer....

The ACA spends 11.0 billion in supporting and increasing the number of Health Care clinics, so most people eventually won't have to drive 2 hours to get any kind of medical care...which is a GOOD thing.

http://bphc.hrsa.gov/about/healthcenterfactsheet.pdf

(Mod's, this is NOT a copyright article, but Public info so no copyright restrictions apply)

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Uniform Data System, 2012.
The Affordable Care Act and Health Centers
For more than 45 years, health centers have delivered comprehensive, high‐quality preventive and primary health care to patients regardless of their ability to pay. During that time, health centers have become the essential primary care medical home for millions of Americans including some of the nation’s most vulnerable populations. With a proven track record of success, health centers will play a key role in implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Delivery of Care: Increased Access to Health Services
Today, approximately 1,200 health centers operate nearly 9,000 service delivery sites that provide care to more than 21 million patients in every U.S. State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Basin.
Overall, since the beginning of 2009, health centers have increased the total number of patients served on an annual basis by 4 million people, increasing the number of patients served from 17.1 million to 21.1 million annually. During this time, health centers have also added more than 35,000 new full‐time positions, increasing their employment from 113,000 to more than 148,000 staff nationwide.
This network of health centers has created one of the largest safety net systems of primary and preventive care in the country with a true national impact.
• Health centers, supported by the Health
Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA), treated more than 21 million
people in 2012, sixty-two percent of
whom are members of ethnic and
minority groups. Thirty-six percent have
no health insurance; thirty-two percent are
children.
• One out of every 15 people living in the
U.S. now relies on a HRSA‐funded clinic
for primary care.
• Health centers are an integral source of
local employment and economic growth
in many underserved and low‐income
communities. Total health center
employment is more than 148,000
individuals nationwide, and health
centers added more than 35,000 jobs
over the last four years.
• Health centers employ more than 10,000 physicians and more than 7,500 nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified nurse midwives in a multi‐disciplinary clinical workforce designed to treat the whole patient through culturally‐competent, accessible, and integrated care.

And the expansion of these heath care centers increase each year, this below was just what was done in 2012

With the Affordable Care Act in FY 2012, the Health Center Program awarded funding for the following new grants:
• Health Center New Access Points: In FY 2012, approximately $129 million was awarded to establish 219 health center new access points across the country. These grants will support new full‐time service delivery sites for the provision of comprehensive primary and preventive health care services to approximately 1.25 million additional patients.

There are parts of the ACA that I don't like, but this part of the ACA (Obamacare) is A GOOD THING.

 

[Darkwind]

What do those people that the OP is speaking of do now when they get sick?

And....what percentage of the American population lives in a place where they cannot reach a doctor or medical facility with an hour's drive?

The OP has once again demonstrated his unique thought process.....the same one that makes his attempts at humor fall flatter than a sheet of paper.

What I find comical is the same folks who blindly defend anything his majesty says or does, claim the sick and elderly can drive an hr for a doctor, yet freak out at the mere mention of going around the corner for an id to vote.

I can hear that slap all the way over here!

 

[LoneLaugher]

What do those people that the OP is speaking of do now when they get sick?

And....what percentage of the American population lives in a place where they cannot reach a doctor or medical facility with an hour's drive?

The OP has once again demonstrated his unique thought process.....the same one that makes his attempts at humor fall flatter than a sheet of paper.

What I find comical is the same folks who blindly defend anything his majesty says or does, claim the sick and elderly can drive an hr for a doctor, yet freak out at the mere mention of going around the corner for an id to vote.

I can hear that slap all the way over here!

Really? You thought that was a good reply? Did you rep him? I bet you did.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Has this issue ever been brought up in the media? Aside from Doctor shortages, how about all of the areas in the country that have very little access to health-care?
What's the point of being forced to buy health-care when u live in a part of town, or a town where there are so few Doctors. And what about Callyfornia? Aren't there a lot of Doctors moving out and relocating their practices to red states?

Someone needs to ask one of those staunch Obama supporters about this mess on live TV. But no one has. Does anyone think people are gonna buy health-care for 200-400 a month knowing there aren't any Doctors in a 25/35 mile radius of their home?

no different than now

 

[Vox]

that will be the next debacle, just like with voter surpression, next we will have "Doctor Surpression", Doctors will purposely relocate to white cities. So Racist!

there has ALWAYS been a shortage of physicians in certain specialties or certain areas in the USA.

That's why physicians from all over the world have been able to pass the needed requirements and immigration hassles to become MD in the USA - and the scenario has been there at least 40 years.

residency positions are exempt from the cap on H1B

But it is one issue to have doctors to treat you and totally other - nurses, who function in the frame of incidence reports and hospital policies only
The new shortage will lead to enormous corruption - which is a feature of any deficit-driven area.

 

[Vox]

What I find comical is the same folks who blindly defend anything his majesty says or does, claim the sick and elderly can drive an hr for a doctor, yet freak out at the mere mention of going around the corner for an id to vote.

LOL you nailed it

 

[Vox]

Debacle is not what you 'Conservatives' are afraid of. A rousing success is what is giving you nightmares. So, in order to prevent that from happening, you are willing to do major damage to our nation. The economy is still reeling from the damage you guys did the last time you had power, now you are trying to really screw over the nation. What a bunch of adolescent assholes you peope truly are.

oh, are you talking about "success" that was revealed today about extreme downsizing of the existing providers by the plans and even more extreme cuts to services provided in order to not skyrocket the costs?

"success" it is

 

[francoHFW]

Medicaid and Medicare have programs for driving those without trans to help. Thanks to Dems, IGNORANT hater dupes. NOW YOU CAN BITCH ABOUT that. A-HOLES...

 

[Vox]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/h...ost-of-fewer-choices.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Federal officials often say that health insurance will cost consumers less than expected under President Obama’s health care law. But they rarely mention one big reason: many insurers are significantly limiting the choices of doctors and hospitals available to consumers.

Decades of experience with Medicaid, the program for low-income people, show that having an insurance card does not guarantee access to specialists or other providers.

Consumers should be prepared for “much tighter, narrower networks” of doctors and hospitals, said Adam M. Linker, a health policy analyst at the North Carolina Justice Center, a statewide advocacy group.

In a new study, the Health Research Institute of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the consulting company, says that “insurers passed over major medical centers” when selecting providers in California, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee, among other states.


LOL. So, if you need targeted treatment at a tertiary care center - NO, YOU CAN'T. It is not for the "masses"

You get what you vote for

 

[francoHFW]

Debacle is not what you 'Conservatives' are afraid of. A rousing success is what is giving you nightmares. So, in order to prevent that from happening, you are willing to do major damage to our nation. The economy is still reeling from the damage you guys did the last time you had power, now you are trying to really screw over the nation. What a bunch of adolescent assholes you peope truly are.

oh, are you talking about "success" that was revealed today about extreme downsizing of the existing providers by the plans and even more extreme cuts to services provided in order to not skyrocket the cause?

"success" it is

Pure Pubcrappe, hater dupe. LiNK lol

 

[Vox]

In New Hampshire, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, a unit of WellPoint, one of the nation’s largest insurers, has touched off a furor by excluding 10 of the state’s 26 hospitals from the health plans that it will sell through the insurance exchange.

way to go, obamacare

 

[Vox]

Debacle is not what you 'Conservatives' are afraid of. A rousing success is what is giving you nightmares. So, in order to prevent that from happening, you are willing to do major damage to our nation. The economy is still reeling from the damage you guys did the last time you had power, now you are trying to really screw over the nation. What a bunch of adolescent assholes you peope truly are.

oh, are you talking about "success" that was revealed today about extreme downsizing of the existing providers by the plans and even more extreme cuts to services provided in order to not skyrocket the cause?

"success" it is

Pure Pubcrappe, hater dupe. LiNK lol

cretin, you better be prepared for the cheap service you voted for

you are NOT "elite"

you are cheap komsomol

 

[Vox]

Even though insurers will be forbidden to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions, they could subtly discourage the enrollment of sicker patients by limiting the size of their provider networks.

“If a health plan has a narrow network that excludes many doctors, that may shoo away patients with expensive pre-existing conditions who have established relationships with doctors,” said Mark E. Rust, the chairman of the national health care practice at Barnes & Thornburg, a law firm. “Some insurers do not want those patients who, for medical reasons, require a broad network of providers.”

 

[francoHFW]

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ANY LINKS to this BS...any WHY, WHAT'S THE POINT ETC, OR JUST STUPID Pub fear mongering, hater dupe...LOL

 

[Vox]

idiot leftard, there is a link up there - in my third post

from the New York Times, a known right-wing hater dupe

 

[Vox]

here, incompetent hater dupe.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/h...ost-of-fewer-choices.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
ENJOY

 

[TheSeventhTiger]

and is it true that an issue of Obama-Care are the inimate details of our sex lives?

 

[Harry Dresden]

What do those people that the OP is speaking of do now when they get sick?

And....what percentage of the American population lives in a place where they cannot reach a doctor or medical facility with an hour's drive?

The OP has once again demonstrated his unique thought process.....the same one that makes his attempts at humor fall flatter than a sheet of paper.

i was going to ask the same things.....

 

[LoneLaugher]

and is it true that an issue of Obama-Care are the inimate details of our sex lives?

No.