Remember the "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" promise that President Obama made? Yeah, about that. I have some bad news. Well, it's only bad news if your doctor works at a premier hospital. If your doctor works at a podunk hospital in the middle of nowhere, I'm sure you'll be fine.
If your doctor works at Sloan Kettering, M.D. Anderson, or Cedars-Sinai you're probably out of luck.
Amid a drive by insurers to limit costs, the majority of insurance plans being sold on the new healthcare exchanges in New York, Texas, and California, for example, will not offer patients’ access to Memorial Sloan Kettering in Manhattan or MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, two top cancer centres, or Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, one of the top research and teaching hospitals in the country.
Hey, it's just Sloan Kettering and MD Anderson. Those just happen to be the top two cancer treatment hospitals in the world. No biggie, right? You don't really need the best cancer care, right?
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So just to recap: You can't necessarily keep your plan, you can't necessarily keep your doctor, and you might not be able to sign up for a new plan because the website is all wonky, and you'll pay a tax if you don't get that new plan that you've been ordered to purchase. And if you do get a new plan, it will cost you more in premiums, if you're young and healthy.
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