{"id":19490,"date":"2013-11-20T13:21:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T18:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19490"},"modified":"2013-11-20T13:21:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T18:21:33","slug":"first-goes-the-insurance-next-goes-the-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19490\/first-goes-the-insurance-next-goes-the-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"First Goes the Insurance, Next Goes the Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.time.com\/2013\/11\/19\/you-can-keep-your-doctor-obamacares-next-broken-promise\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Time\u2019s Swampland blog<\/a> quotes a health care industry expert to confirm the obvious: \u201cMany people are going to find out that the second part of the promise \u2013 that if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor \u2013 just wasn\u2019t true,\u201d says a former George H.W. Bush Medicare and Medicaid official.<\/p>\n<p>Fundamentally, Obamacare is designed to increase access to health insurance. It does this by increasing its costs and then transferring the extra money to eligible people in the form of insurance subsidies and enlarged Medicaid programs. To compensate, insurance companies will narrow their doctor networks. In many cases this will result in people losing access to the doctor of their choice.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the logical outcome of President Barack Obama\u2019s law is to show that his promise of keeping one\u2019s doctor is a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Swampland writer says \u201cIt\u2019s unclear why the President made the promise about keeping your doctor,\u201d it is abundantly clear that without such a promise Obamacare could not have passed. People were told they could get a flashy new entitlement at no cost to themselves. Now, they are finding out how truly wrong that promise was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time\u2019s Swampland blog quotes a health care industry expert to confirm the obvious: \u201cMany people are going to find out that the second part of the promise \u2013 that if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor \u2013 just wasn\u2019t true,\u201d says a former George H.W. Bush Medicare and Medicaid official. Fundamentally, Obamacare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,3308,1829,35],"class_list":["post-19490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19490"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19496,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19490\/revisions\/19496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}