- Barack Obama’s famous boast that under the Affordable Care Act you can keep your doctor was false from the start, but a new KFF report shows this is getting worse...
Mr. Obama boasted at the Democratic National Convention that the ACA is “providing millions of people access to affordable coverage.”
He omitted that most of them can’t access most doctors.
- KFF, formerly known as the Kaiser Family Foundation, found that ACA plan networks in 2021 included on average only 40% of doctors in a patient’s area and even fewer in such places as Cook County, Ill. (14%), Orange County, Calif. (25%), and Los Angeles (25%).
- More than a quarter of physicians who participated in traditional Medicare don’t participate in any ACA plan.
- And many doctors don’t accept Medicare because of its low payment rates...
