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You Can’t Keep Your Doctor: Seattle Hospital Sues After Obamacare Cuts Children’s Access
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You Can’t Keep Your Doctor: Seattle Hospital Sues After Obamacare Cuts Children’s Access
November 6, 2013

Seattle Children’s Hospital filed suit against Washington State’s Office of the Insurance Commissioner this week, after Obamacare implementation caused the hospital to be cut from four of the six insurance plans offered by the Washington Health Benefit Exchange.

As millions lose their insurance nation wide and are forced into plans with significantly higher premiums, the reality of rationed care, initially denied by adamant supporters of the bill, has now hit the country’s most vulnerable, with doctors at Seattle Children’s Hospital speaking out.

“There becomes a point when if you start denying access to care, that you can hurt children and children’s health and that’s what we believe is at risk here,” Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer Dr. Sandy Melzer said.

Although the hospital was included in almost every health plan from the state’s commercial market originally, Group Health Cooperative and Community Health Plan of Washington will now be the only providers including Seattle Children’s. According to the lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court, the legal obligation to provide access to “essential community providers” has been breached.

Those enrolled in one of the five insurance plans that excludes Seattle Children’s who still want the hospital’s care will likely be forced to pay much higher cost-sharing amounts, an impossibility to the almost 50 million American’s attempting to rise above the poverty line.

“The notion that a major insurance plan is going to exclude us from their network is truly precedent-setting and represents a new level of degradation in children’s access to care,” Melzer told the Seattle Times.

Local resident Anne Guadagno is afraid her two young granddaughters will lose their favorite doctor like many others already have, despite President Obama’s promise that everyone would be able to keep their doctors.

“I would want my grandchildren to have the doctor they’ve become accustomed to and are comfortable with. A child that’s been with a certain doctor and nurse and an office needs to stay there,” Guadagno told King 5 News.

With a healthcare website only able to sign up 6 people in its first day, “inevitable” healthcare rationing, millions more set to lose their current insurance and an impending shortage of doctors, the future of the Affordable Care Act appears to be anything but affordable for millions of children and adults alike.
http://intellihub.com/2013/11/07/you-cant-keep-your-doctor-seattle-hospital-sues-after-obamacare-cuts-childrens-access/
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Just remember the H of R write the bills, the Senate approves them and the President signs them. No one has admitted that it is extremely difficult to produce a law that encompasses so many ifs, ands, and buts, to service all in need.
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Nov 10 2013, 02:12 PM
Just remember the H of R write the bills, the Senate approves them and the President signs them. No one has admitted that it is extremely difficult to produce a law that encompasses so many ifs, ands, and buts, to service all in need.
Yes the dem controlled house at the behest of Obama wrote the bill. The dem controlled senate passed it. Then dem Obama signed it into law. You're right, all 3 levels of dem control failed the people.
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Nov 10 2013, 05:10 PM
72MiMi
Nov 10 2013, 02:12 PM
Just remember the H of R write the bills, the Senate approves them and the President signs them. No one has admitted that it is extremely difficult to produce a law that encompasses so many ifs, ands, and buts, to service all in need.
Yes the dem controlled house at the behest of Obama wrote the bill. The dem controlled senate passed it. Then dem Obama signed it into law. You're right, all 3 levels of dem control failed the people.
So did the republican led congress (tea baggers) by shutting down the government. Don't you think for a min that the GOP won't pay for that come next election!
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Nov 10 2013, 05:15 PM
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Nov 10 2013, 05:10 PM
72MiMi
Nov 10 2013, 02:12 PM
Just remember the H of R write the bills, the Senate approves them and the President signs them. No one has admitted that it is extremely difficult to produce a law that encompasses so many ifs, ands, and buts, to service all in need.
Yes the dem controlled house at the behest of Obama wrote the bill. The dem controlled senate passed it. Then dem Obama signed it into law. You're right, all 3 levels of dem control failed the people.
So did the republican led congress (tea baggers) by shutting down the government. Don't you think for a min that the GOP won't pay for that come next election!
Shutting down the gov was due to both sides. And looking at it now the dems are even more responsible. The tea party wanted to delay or end the mandate. Now many dems up for election next year want to delay the mandate. So within a few weeks these dems are taking the same position as the tea party.

Of course the dems knew this during the shutdown but had to engage in un-statesmanlike partisanship.
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Nov 10 2013, 05:15 PM
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Nov 10 2013, 05:10 PM
72MiMi
Nov 10 2013, 02:12 PM
Just remember the H of R write the bills, the Senate approves them and the President signs them. No one has admitted that it is extremely difficult to produce a law that encompasses so many ifs, ands, and buts, to service all in need.
Yes the dem controlled house at the behest of Obama wrote the bill. The dem controlled senate passed it. Then dem Obama signed it into law. You're right, all 3 levels of dem control failed the people.
So did the republican led congress (tea baggers) by shutting down the government. Don't you think for a min that the GOP won't pay for that come next election!
Oh, and as for 2014, I think the tea party repubs are in good shape. Many americans are pissed at obamacrap. The dems up for re-election also know this.
If anything, the tea party will be stronger as they appear more principled.

The biggest problem for the TP will be establishment repubs who hate them even more than the dems.

The close election in VA (which should have been a dem blowout) was due in large part to the lack of funding from establishment repubs. McAullife(sp) massively outspent his repub rival.

By the way, as a side note. This election highlighted the real politics at work between establishment pols and outsiders. I heard the dem candidate in NJ barely got any support from the dems and she was complaining. As we all know, Obama and Christie are buds. These are your insiders.
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Nov 10 2013, 05:36 PM
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Nov 10 2013, 05:15 PM
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Nov 10 2013, 05:10 PM
72MiMi
Nov 10 2013, 02:12 PM
Just remember the H of R write the bills, the Senate approves them and the President signs them. No one has admitted that it is extremely difficult to produce a law that encompasses so many ifs, ands, and buts, to service all in need.
Yes the dem controlled house at the behest of Obama wrote the bill. The dem controlled senate passed it. Then dem Obama signed it into law. You're right, all 3 levels of dem control failed the people.
So did the republican led congress (tea baggers) by shutting down the government. Don't you think for a min that the GOP won't pay for that come next election!
Shutting down the gov was due to both sides. And looking at it now the dems are even more responsible. The tea party wanted to delay or end the mandate. Now many dems up for election next year want to delay the mandate. So within a few weeks these dems are taking the same position as the tea party.

Of course the dems knew this during the shutdown but had to engage in un-statesmanlike partisanship.
Many republicans was against shutting the government down but it was shut down.
Those very few democrats you mention will lose their jobs also come next election like the tea bag republicans if they don't help to improve ACA instead of trying to delay.
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Nov 10 2013, 05:44 PM
catdaddy25
Nov 10 2013, 05:15 PM
Snidely Whiplash
Nov 10 2013, 05:10 PM
72MiMi
Nov 10 2013, 02:12 PM
Just remember the H of R write the bills, the Senate approves them and the President signs them. No one has admitted that it is extremely difficult to produce a law that encompasses so many ifs, ands, and buts, to service all in need.
Yes the dem controlled house at the behest of Obama wrote the bill. The dem controlled senate passed it. Then dem Obama signed it into law. You're right, all 3 levels of dem control failed the people.
So did the republican led congress (tea baggers) by shutting down the government. Don't you think for a min that the GOP won't pay for that come next election!
Oh, and as for 2014, I think the tea party repubs are in good shape. Many americans are pissed at obamacrap. The dems up for re-election also know this.
If anything, the tea party will be stronger as they appear more principled.

The biggest problem for the TP will be establishment repubs who hate them even more than the dems.

The close election in VA (which should have been a dem blowout) was due in large part to the lack of funding from establishment repubs. McAullife(sp) massively outspent his repub rival.

By the way, as a side note. This election highlighted the real politics at work between establishment pols and outsiders. I heard the dem candidate in NJ barely got any support from the dems and she was complaining. As we all know, Obama and Christie are buds. These are your insiders.
Christie won't stand a chance. His own party will do him in with the help of the tea baggers as they do all the republican stars.He won't make it thru the primary.
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