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“If you’re accustomed to telling your doctor things you wouldn’t tell
anyone else, now is the time to really talk to your doctor about
keeping two sets of books. Once the doctor is compelled under the law to
enter your treatments in an electronic, interoperative database, you
can bet that thousands of people will be seeing your information,” said
McCaughey, who adds that federal authorities would likely review those
records as part of a federal firearms background check if the president
gets that part of his gun agenda approved.
The new Obamacare laws are already causing problems for millions of
Americans, but there are steps Americans can take to protect their
health-care quality from getting even worse, according to one of
Obamacare’s most outspoken critics, Betsy McCaughey.
In a radio interview with WND, McCaughey scolded several Republican
governors for agreeing to expand Medicaid in exchange for promises that
the federal government will pick up the entire cost of expansion at
first and 90 percent of it in perpetuity.
McCaughey served as lieutenant governor in New York during Gov.
George Pataki’s first term in the mid-1990s and is author of “Beating
Obamacare: Your Handbook for Surviving the New Health Care Law.”
In addition to the overall costs already far exceeding original
projections, McCaughey said millions are or are about to feel the
problems on a very personal level.
“Americans are already getting clobbered by some of the unexpected
consequences of this law. For example, most people get their coverage on
a job, theirs or their spouse’s, and many of them are already being
told that their employer is dropping coverage next January,” McCaughey
said. “Next year, about eight million people could lose their coverage,
but, in fact, others like McKinsey & Company management consultants
have estimated that as many as a third of employees could be dropped by
their employers.”
For those who lose their employer-based coverage, McCaughey said the remaining insurance options are not very appealing.
“Either they go on Medicaid, or, if they earn too much for that,
they’ll be shopping the exchange,” said McCaughey, who noted that the
exchanges are billed as offering all kinds of choice, but the plans are
all the same and they all carry a big price tag.
“The only thing the exchanges are going to be selling is the
government-mandates essential benefits package. So no matter what brand
name it has, Aetna, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, it’s going to be the
same one-size-fits-all health plan,” McCaughey said. “It will be very
expensive. According to the IRS, the cheapeast ‘bronze’ plan for a
family of three kids will cost $20,000. That’s $20,000 for the premium,
but you’ll still have about 40 percent of your health bills to pay
out-of-pocket.
“And don’t be bamboozled when you hear these words bronze, silver,
gold or platinum. Despite those fancy sounding names, those plans will
all be the essential benefits package. Only the copays and deductibles
will be different. If you pay up for platinum, you’ll have a smaller
co-pay when you go to the doctor,” she said.
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