Report: Many Doctors Will Refuse Obamacare Patients
Physicians are already capping the number of Medicaid patients they see
The big selling point of the Affordable Care Act — "Obamacare" to you and I — has been the extension of health-plan coverage to uninsured Americans. The implicit promise was that extending coverage would extend actual care. But yet another study suggests that these new medical customers, many of whom would be accommodated by expanding Medicaid, may not be able to find physicians willing to take them on.
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"...the Affordable Care Act ? "Obamacare" to you and I..."
The reason for that is that the 'official name' is a goddam lie.