Turned Off by Obamacare, Many Doctors Spurn Exchange Patients
31st October 2014
Riffing off a survey conducted earlier this year by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), the conservative American Action Forum (AAF) estimates that upwards of 214,000 doctors are declining to serve patients covered by Obamacare exchange health plans. AAF gets that number by extrapolating the MGMA’s survey responses across the full population of practicing physicians, so take that number as seriously as you like. But there’s no doubt that physicians have real concerns about the president’s signature Affordable Care Act (ACA), and that exchange customers are having trouble finding doctors willing to take their business.
Obamacare, the gift that keeps on giving.