When you are not feeling well, even the normal wait time in your doctor’s office can be unpleasant.
But get ready to wait longer to see your doctor as the provisions of ObamaCare kick in between now and 2014.
A study by BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee found that wait times to see a physician will rise under ObamaCare as the law pulls almost 700,000 Tennesseans into federally approved health insurance programs.
The trouble is, in the quest to cover more people, supporters of ObamaCare did not think about the fact that there are not nearly enough health care workers to provide all that new care efficiently.
Our nation is already facing a doctor shortage, which is going to worsen as millions of people across the country enter government care through ObamaCare. In Tennessee and elsewhere in the United States, there is no real plan in place to add enough health care providers to meet the need. So how are 700,000 more Tennesseans — and 30 million people nationwide — supposed to get treatment in doctor’s offices under ObamaCare when the system is already under great stress as it is?