There are more unforeseen problems appearing out of Obamacare. First have been the various website crashes. A CNN article (1) said that another outage had occurred for one of the sights. This had locked out many account holders and was preventing others from signing up. Verizon is the main provider for the website and has been requested by government officials to give more data to the website. Technical analysis said that the website was not actually prepared to go live on October 1st but the administration proceeded anyway.
The main issue that is presenting itself now is the lack of hospitals accepting Obamacare plans. This CNN article (2) gave the example of a Connecticut town's only hospital not accepting Obamacare due to the fact that it was unable to debate for prices and would be paid less than the cost of providing care. For citizens in that area that have purchased new plans through The Affordable Care Act they are at a loss. They are forced to drive to another town in order to get their health care while they have a perfectly good hospital right around the corner. The article goes on to mention many other big name hospitals that are not accepting Obamacare plans or a limited number of them. This will prove to be a big problem because citizens are purchasing these new plans not knowing their local doctors may not accept it. They would then be left to change doctors or pay out of pocket for their care.
It seems that potential problems with Obamacare where not publicized fully before its launch. I would think that if these issues where made more apparent to the public the Affordable Care Act would have been revisited before its launch. Now it seems many are locked into this new health care plan that is rapidly draining money our government simply does not have. Again I am not saying that everyone should not have access to health care, I think they should, but multiple problems early on typically spells disaster. It does not seem that the Obama administration actually looked into their plan as much as they said they did because I would think the problem of plans not being accepted would have been seen very soon. Many practices are still trying to figure out what accepting plans would mean for them. This should have been made extremely apparent well before the start of Obamacare, long before citizens could begin purchasing plans when the doctors do not even completely understand them! I do not know what the correct answer is but this one seems to keep developing problems. There most likely no one size fits all solution for our health care system. It is difficult to suddenly add 46 million to a system already struggle.
1- http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/29/news/economy/obamacare-site-outage/index.html
2- http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/29/health/obamacare-doctors-limited/index.html?hpt=he_c1
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