Which means, I got your FIRST hand Obamacare info rat cheer!
Just got back from Doctor. Yeah I have the flu...had to go get more medicine. Whew.
Anyway, it took 45 minutes for some 'nurse' to fill out everything about me, from scratch. Mind you, this is the same doctor I've seen for a zillion years. He has my whole file. I told her that and she said it didn't matter, it had to be entered from scratch, starting this last Monday. I asked why the "new system" couldn't just upload data from the old, and she laughed and said "Boy, I wish it would. It won't. Has to be entered manually all anew".
Yes, she had a list from my paper file of my medications, etc........and she used that.......so I didn't have to provide it all from scratch, but she still had to enter it.
Doc came in and I asked why the "new system" since Obamacare said he had to use a standardized computer for all patients, starting a year ago? He said he didn't know the 'why'......but Obamacare dictated that this new system be used, starting 2 days ago, and he has no choice. This is the same doc I tried to get in to see Monday and he had no openings. So I went with my wife to her doc, and found out about the flu. My doc apologized but said Monday was insane........they didn't leave that night till after 10:00 pm seeing patients, because it takes so long to use this new system the first time for all patients.
Meanwhile, my brother is sitting over there with some sickness, and he has the "Free Obamacare" package.........meaning, Arkansas voted to meet their requirements of providing insurance to the 'poor' by the state funding Medicaid for the lowest income 1/10th of the state's population. So, 250,000 people got free Medicaid as the answer to them having to buy insurance, when they knew they couldn't afford it at all.
So how does this help him, you ask? NONE! Not one doctor in town will take a new Medicare OR Medicaid patient. So every one of those 250,000 people who "got insurance" when they didn't have any before, are going to have either A) do without as usual since no doctor will take their insuance card, or B) GO TO THE ER!!
Now how did this fix anything?
This is a cluster, disaster, of the highest order.