Some exchange patients can't find doctor: #tellusatoday

Comments from Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar:

In USA TODAY's article "Some doctors wary of taking insurance exchange patients," plastic surgeon Andrew Kleinman states that doctors can't take on too many patients reimbursed at a lower rate for fear of going out of business. Seriously? To me that just means that they did not become doctors to heal. They became doctors for the money.

— Elaine Hodges

I want a doctor who worries about my health, not the health of his medical practice. Paying him less ensures that I won't get that. Most doctors do not go into medicine for the money, but they should be paid very well.

— Kevin C Shadden

I'm 49, and I have had no insurance for about two years. I had insurance before, but now I can't afford it. I'll get care as I need it, or do without. Health care begins at home.

— Karl Sagan

There's a simple solution. Find another doctor who will take you.

— Ed Casper

We asked our followers what they thought should be done to help those having a hard time finding a doctor. Comments from Twitter are edited for clarity and grammar:

We need a single-payer health care system.

— @bellazora

Get them a realistic, affordable plan. People need to go off the exchange and into the free market.

— @friedrichsgroup

Do away with the Affordable Care Act. Premiums, co-pays and deductibles have gone up.

— @ams_world

Letters to the editor:

There have been major glitches in instituting the Affordable Care Act. But it has been only a year since enrollment began, and millions of previously uninsured Americans now have health care plans.

Already, about 10 million Americans have health coverage who didn't before. Republicans want to scuttle this program and move it into the private sector. Remember the doughnut hole in prescription benefits for seniors? That was put there by Republicans to placate private industry at significant cost to seniors.

Harvey Hakoda; Honolulu

Obamacare is succeeding beyond expectations. So much so that the number of insurance companies offering competitive plans on exchanges will increase 25% in 2015, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. That will provide more competition and help drive prices down on health care. But Republican Sen. Ted Cruz wrote in the column "Republican priorities for 2015" that Obamacare must be repealed by "all means possible" (Opinion, Oct. 20).

The Affordable Care Act has proved itself to be a positive program, and the Republicans still want to dump it?

Ron Lowe; Nevada City, Calif.