Alex Adrianson of the Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” highlights an unintended negative consequence of the Affordable Care Act.
From Avalere, here is a look at how many of the top 10 physicians in three specialties (cardiology, neurology, and diagnostic radiology) are available to offer services through the low-cost silver plans on the ObamaCare exchanges:
As David Hogberg observes, those don’t look like quality plans:
So, if you live in Louisville, you have a silver plan, and your elderly aunt on Medicare recommends a good cardiologist in the area, you may be out of luck. (Although, the study notes that some of the physicians included in the Louisville area were actually in Lexington, which may have effected the results.) Regardless, the numbers are not that good in Los Angeles, Atlanta or San Jose either.
