all i know is they don t let me eat at an italian restaurant until it s cleared, unless they want to break my arm, but there was hard data, though. i think that we are focusing on doctor choice and hospital choice. that will play out in months and years to come. how important is that to people who did have insurance prior? it s incredibly important. and that will turn the tide against obamacare. there are stats, though, that forbes looked at compared plans by the insurance companies to see the option of doctors looking at six different types of doctors in states, and 54 instances total. there were only two cases where the private plan and the obamacare plan offered the same number of doctors, and 52 instances out of 54, the private plan had more well, here is the expertise for a lot of you.
or is that a happy face? democrats decided to argue that the only problems with obamacare were the web site problems. they conceded that the web site was a mess. but that once that gets fixed, obamacare is fine. what republicans have said is that there are structural aspects of obamacare that are going to mean continued, higher premiums, higher deductibles, narrower doctor choice, narrower prescription drug choices, all of this stuff for patients as we go forward. i think what you are going to see in 2014 is which side has the stronger argument. steve, this healthcare was passed in 2010. did they get started right away on othe web sight or did they drag their feet? i mean, what in the world, how did they get to this mess? well, i mean, you go and go back and review the testimony, they claim that they were starting on the web site, that they were working on these problems from the very beginning, but it also intensified, that work intensified over the past several months. clearly
they re on the network. the more you shrink the networks the harder you make it for me to practice medicine and the less good i am as a physician. the other thing is the new york times time was wrong about one thing. they said in the robert written by robert perry-he is assuming that premiums go down as a result of these restrictions. don t think so. that wasn t true in the 90s with hmos. say day in new york state but in new york state we re already covering preexisting conditions and our premiums are among the high nest though nation. premiums are going up in any state which is not already covering preexisting conditions, once you load in the bells and whistles. let s say the premiums go down, if that s right. you get what you pay for, you re saying. you re going to lose some things like doctor choice, special services choice, mris, cat scans, what. access to care you ll have the insurance card but can t get