Does Obamacare Hurt Medicare? 
The Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare takes over $ 600 million from Medicare to pay for the new health insurance plans . The funds are being taken from providers , doctors , lab & xray facilities , etc. which means providers will be paid less . Since providers are being paid less for their services there has been a decrease nationally of providers accepting Medicare . Last year there was a 9 % drop in Medicare providers with doctors either dropping out of Medicare or not taking new patients . The Medicare Advantage program is also impacted since the law is attempting do reduce the number of participants and payments to providers . If you have Medicare and currently have a doctor you may not see many changes in the near term . 