The president's healthcare plan is expected to produce a mass exodus of physicians over the next few years, while an expert asserts the "devil is in the details" of California's new Internet health insurance marketplace.
Under the order of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, California will enact its own Internet healthcare exchange marketplace in 2014. But the state's fiscal troubles and high unemployment rate are expected to add to the dilemma of providing coverage for the uninsured.
Marilyn Singleton, a California-based physician and candidate for Congress, directs OneNewsNow to what she believes is the source of the problem.
"Our real problem, it really goes back to our high unemployment rate. The more people unemployed, the more people aren't going to have private health insurance; they're not going to have the money to buy private health insurance," she offers.
"We're going to have more and more people on MediCal, and since they raised the ceiling for the amount of money that you can make to be on MediCal, I think we're going to have more people flocking to that system. These are the systems where the devil is in the details."
Singleton asserts that because California does not have as many privately insured people as other states, The Golden State feels compelled to address the issue.
Meanwhile, Twila Brase, president of the Citizens' Council for Health Freedom (CCHF), prodicts ObamaCare will produce a mass exodus from the healthcare field over the next four years.
A study [PDF] conducted by The Physicians Foundation shows that physicians today are working less, seeing fewer patients, and reducing access to services. If that trend continues, nearly 45,000 full-time doctors will leave the medical field, greatly limiting patient access to care.
"There [are] more people coming who are going to have free access to these doctors because of the federal healthcare reform law, and there are more people who are becoming part of Medicare, and they also have somewhat free access to all these doctors," Brase explains. "So ... we're just looking at a time where doctors are exiting the doors as more and more people are entering them."
The report shows that 50 percent of the doctors who remain will reduce the number of patients they see, work part-time, and switch to "concierge medicine." So the healthcare expert notes that President Obama's promise that patients can keep their doctors certainly is not true.
"It can't be kept just because of what's happening under the law, which is making it more difficult for doctors to even do their jobs, use their brains, and take care of patients like patients should be taken care of," Brase concludes.
CCHF calls the president's promise a "ruse" to make people more comfortable with ObamaCare.