Okay, SK. Can we agree that “Medicaid” is not actually “insurance” and is instead a government-run entitlement program, initially put in place to serve the “poor?”
I’m simply stating here that Medi-Cal expansion has adversely affected thousands of middle-income individuals in CA who signed up in good faith for a marketplace plan on the exchange and it continues to do so.
In addition, Medi-Cal had no business being expanded when it didn’t even have enough providers to serve the ~2.7M CA residents who were on it pre-ACA (2013 and prior). As of this summer, there will apparently be nearly five times that many Medi-Cal enrollees while providers continue to drop like flies from the program AS WELL AS from the marketplace exchange plans which are NOT EPOs.
To the extent that the ACA has been “successful,” it was very likely the millions of Medicaid/Medi-Cal signups who have provided the “numbers” to make it so (the bulk of exchange enrollees in those states which adopted “expanded Medicaid”).
I have never implied anywhere that I feared Americans would lose jobs because of the ACA. If anything, the ACA has created thousands of just-over-minimum wage jobs in the (underserved) Lodi/Sac/Chico areas of CA in the form of CC telephone “representatives” and back office positions. That fact in and of itself doesn’t make these workers competent or even remotely aware of the nuances of how their “system” works or how to fix any of the multitude of real-life problems their “system” causes enrollees every single day. It only makes them “employed” … for now.
Oh, and btw, I have never blamed “Obama” for the failings of the ACA machinery on the ground. I lay the blame solely in the lap of the Dems in Congress who hurriedly pushed it through without understanding the ramifications of what exactly was in the (volumimous) law. The President simply rubber-stamped on March 23, 2010, what Congress had already passed, as you previously stated.
