UnitedHealth drops thousands of doctors: Seniors scramble to find coverage

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And I'm not the one who said "We will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor.  Period."  President Obama did.  Numerous times.  Don't make promises you can't keep.  Again, he didn't say "If you want to keep your doctor, you can - but only if you go shopping on our broken website and buy a new plan.  Period."

Again, Obama cannot and will not force insurance companies to keep every doctor in their network (Republicans would be howling socialism if he tried!).  Insurance companies are constantly bringing doctors in and out of their networks -- Obamacare doesn't change that.  It's the free market that determines which doctors are in which networks, not Obamacare, period.

I realize that basic tenets of how health insurance works aren't part of the high school curriculum or anything, but I've never seen an entire political party show such utter ignorance of a topic that that they argue so vehemently about like Republicans lately.

That's too bad because he said "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor too." He shouldn't promise things he doesn't mean or things he can't control. The Washington Post gave him four Pinocchio's but I give him four Nixons.

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And I'm not the one who said "We will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor.  Period."  President Obama did.  Numerous times.  Don't make promises you can't keep.  Again, he didn't say "If you want to keep your doctor, you can - but only if you go shopping on our broken website and buy a new plan.  Period."

Again, Obama cannot and will not force insurance companies to keep every doctor in their network (Republicans would be howling socialism if he tried!).  Insurance companies are constantly bringing doctors in and out of their networks -- Obamacare doesn't change that.  It's the free market that determines which doctors are in which networks, not Obamacare, period.

I realize that basic tenets of how health insurance works aren't part of the high school curriculum or anything, but I've never seen an entire political party show such utter ignorance of a topic that that they argue so vehemently about like Republicans lately.

If Obama and those who voted for the ACA really thought that it would not cause people to have to change their insurance and their doctors - their ignorance is astounding.

They're politicians and most who voted for it intended for people to lose their coverage so that more people could be dependent on them. The more people dependent on the government, the better things are for Obama and his allies.

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Again, Obamacare can't promise an insurance company will keep your doctor in its network any more than he can promise that your local grocery store will keep stocking Caffeine Free Mountain Dew even though you're the only one who likes it.  In fact, if Obama did try to compel insurance companies to hold on to your doctors the right wingers would be rolling around in the streets shrieking about socialism, and they might even have a point.

All Obama's "promise" means that Obamacare will not compel any insurance company to drop a doctor, and it doesn't.  If an insurance company decides to do what's in its own best interest (and the interests of its customers, if that's to drop expensive doctors and lower people's premiums), that's the decision of the company, not of Obama.

Anyway, everyone knows this.  The Right is just fauxraging and concern trolling over this non-issue.

Well then he should've thought before he spoke. Remember when Bush landed on the aircraft carrier? Don't you think he should've thought before speaking too?