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Elizabeth Hasselbeck blames Obamacare for keeping elderly pregnant women from being able to see the doctor of their choice. Wait, what?

Courtesy of Raw Story:

In a segment titled “Who’s Ruining the Economy Now?” Fox Business host Stuart Varney announced that the president was not going to be able to keep the promise that people could keep their doctors because “United Healthcare has just dropped — we don’t know exactly how many — but thousands of doctors have been dropped from United Heathcare’s Medicare Advantage program.”

Conservative media outlets like The Washington Times have blamed United Healthcare’s decision on the Affordable Care Act.

“That leaves hundreds of thousands of patients without the doctor that they’ve had for many many years,” Varney added. “We don’t know how many thousands have been dropped, but thousands have been dropped. What about their patients? What about the people who used to have this doctor who now no longer have this doctor? Broken promise.”

“And many of those people are women who are expecting babies and who may just have a real relationship with their physician and want to see the same doctor deliver possibly their second child,” Hasselbeck opined. “And they are now left in the dark in a time that they feeling quite vulnerable.”

“Most of them are elderly,” Varney pointed out.

Medicare Advantage is a type of Medicare offered by private companies to people over 65 years of age. Medicare Advantage covers traditional Medicare plus additional services, but customers must pay a premium.

"Most of them are elderly."

Hasselbeck is really onto something here. Just imagine all of those poor 65 or older pregnant women who cannot see the same doctor who once delivered their other now forty something children.

Oh the humanity.

Wow! Hasselbeck really raised the old IQ on that Fox and Friends couch didn't she?

P.S. By the way for a more balanced report on what United Healthcare is doing, and why, you can visit the Wall Street Journal.

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