Have you been following the new health insurance reform bill? Have you been able to keep up with all the different changes? Are you finding it difficult to follow? You are not alone. The government had a chance to do something good for us the people, but as usual, Congress forgot they work for us and not us for them.
There are many problems and hurdles with The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but there was no way to know what was written into the bill because it was kept a secret from us the people.
One of the major difficulties with this new health insurance reform bill seems to be with our senior citizens. Over half a trillion dollars is being deliberately taken from the Medicare system is a sweeping overhaul. This will leave many of our senior citizens with relatively few recourses when it comes to the quality of medical health care they will be able to access.
Many of the medical health care physicians are being disrupted and having their reimbursements for taking care of our senior citizens reduced under this new health insurance bill by twenty-one percent. This has upset many in the medical health care community and discouraged them from wanting to continue in their practice.
Since the passage of this new health insurance reform bill many medical health care physicians have had to think long and hard deciding where they want to go from this point. They are beginning to see it will be next to impossible for them to remain in business or they will be forced to take on any new Medicare patients.
Well, what do you the medical health care community do? They have been announcing from state through state how the medical health care providers are no longer taking on new Medicare patients and recently the medical health care physicians have also announced the reduction in new Medicaid patients.
Where will this leave the senior citizens of today and the current baby boomers who are beginning to enter into the Medicare system? This, unfortunately, leaves the way open for the government single payer health care system, which is what the government has wanted all along.
Along with this news, the new health insurance reform bill also will gradually discontinue the Medicare Advantage health insurance program that has been a helping hand for those senior citizens who could afford the program. Through this low cost health insurance program, the senior citizens were able to renew their eyeglasses prescription at little or no cost. This also applied to hearing aids, wheel chairs, and many other helpful devices.