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An Obamacare horror story I hadn't heard
Apr. 9th, 2017 07:07 amI spent the last two days at an academic conference upstate, which is (relatively) Trump Country. And I found myself talking to a security guard who was no big fan of either Hillary or Donald, and didn't say whom he had voted for, but told the following first-person story.
"I work mostly as an EMT; the security guard thing is on the side. And since Obamacare, it's been impossible to get paid. After we go on a call, we bill the patient's insurance company, and they just refuse to pay, because under Obamacare, they don't have to. Before Obamacare, they paid just like that <snap>."
Now, I have a hard time believing insurance companies ever "paid just like that <snap>", at least in recent decades. And I confess to knowing nothing about how EMT and paramedic services are now, or have ever been, funded. But for those of you who do know something about it, does the above make any sense? What aspect of Obamacare could have caused (perhaps indirectly) the above phenomenon?
"I work mostly as an EMT; the security guard thing is on the side. And since Obamacare, it's been impossible to get paid. After we go on a call, we bill the patient's insurance company, and they just refuse to pay, because under Obamacare, they don't have to. Before Obamacare, they paid just like that <snap>."
Now, I have a hard time believing insurance companies ever "paid just like that <snap>", at least in recent decades. And I confess to knowing nothing about how EMT and paramedic services are now, or have ever been, funded. But for those of you who do know something about it, does the above make any sense? What aspect of Obamacare could have caused (perhaps indirectly) the above phenomenon?
