{"id":604,"date":"2014-09-29T08:11:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T13:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=604"},"modified":"2014-09-29T08:11:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T13:11:11","slug":"obamacares-narrow-networks-a-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare&#8217;s Narrow Networks A Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of Obamacare was to insure everyone had medical insurance, or so we were told.\u00a0 However, the reality has become anything but.\u00a0 Healthcare insurance companies offering the narrow networks under Obamacare in California are reporting that there will be no increase next year.\u00a0 In fact, some might even have their networks shrink.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-0928-obamacare-doctors-20140928-story.html#page=1\">LA Times article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Narrow networks were put forth by Obamacare as a way to reduce insurance costs.\u00a0 However, as people with such plans start using the plan they are running into problems.\u00a0 They learn that the doctor they had used is not part of the network, or have trouble finding the nearest doctor.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some families are stuck with rising healthcare costs\u00a0that the insurance companies did not cover due to the doctors being out of network.\u00a0 As a result people are filing lawsuits, and a state investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>An additional problem aside from few doctors in the network, is even those in the network may not be taking new patients.<\/p>\n<p>Of course critics mentioned this, but was dismissed by supporters.\u00a0 Perhaps next time democrats want to ram something down American&#8217;s throat, they&#8217;ll at least read it first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of Obamacare was to insure everyone had medical insurance, or so we were told.\u00a0 However, the reality has become anything but.\u00a0 Healthcare insurance companies offering the narrow networks under Obamacare in California are reporting that there will be no increase next year.\u00a0 In fact, some might even have their networks shrink. This is [&hellip;]<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=604\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[33,608,607,150],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-united-states","tag-democrats","tag-narrow","tag-networks","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}