This guy said "We will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period."
He didn't say "If you like your doctor, you'll have to switch plans to keep your doctor because of [some nonsense about how that's] the free market. Period." Or "we're going to take money from Medicare Advantage to pay for Obamacare so that insurance companies providing Medicare Advantage plans will have no choice but to cut costs and doctors and you'll need to find another plan to keep your doctor. Period."
Yet another Obama "promise" that was nothing but a convenient lie.
Look, honestly, this part of ObamaCare sucks. But what you're bitching about here is that some people will have to do some extra work on their own. That's it. That's what this comes down to.
If you want to keep your own doctor, you can guaranteed find a plan that will let you keep your own doctor. It will probably be cheaper than your current plan for the same level of coverage. It may be more expensive. But one will definitely be available to you.
I am sorry you are so outraged that someone will have to do this extra amount of work. But being outraged over it makes you look like a child. Buying insurance is not hard for someone who has already bought insurance. It's clicking around on a website, making a phone call, or talking to a volunteer at a community center. Your current doctor will even help you out. Come on.
Except the Obamacare website doesn't work and many of the supposedly "superior" Obamacare plans are very geographically limited so that if your GP is in one county and your specialist is in another county, both doctors might not be covered under ANY possible plan. But, hey, at least your average 50-year-old will get the mandatory maternity care coverage that her "substandard" plan lacked.
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."
Tell that to the thousands that have enrolled through it.
