dr. patricia mcloughlin, who testified this week in front of congress. all right, dr. mcloughlin, thanks for being with us this evening. how has obama care affected you and your patients? >> it started out that i have a small group insurance policy, and i was given notice that it was going to be nonrenewed starting january 1st of 2014. my anniversary date. and i was totally shocked by that, because it was a high ppo level plan. it was a comprehensive plan. it wasn't missing anything. when i was notified it was not going to be renewed, the letter suggested that another plan would be forthcoming, that would be comparable and i could stay within the same insurance carrier but i had to wait to see what they were going to offer. a couple weeks later, that letter came in describing the new plan which now had in network benefits only instead of both out of network and in network benefits, so it cut off half of my ability to see people outside of the network, and it was only in network requiring referrals which was very surprising. it was called an epo and epo level plans tradi

dr. mcloughlin said. it can be fixed. by the way, i appreciate what you said to congressman course because we can help these doctors be efficient in what they do and help american society. >> i thank you all for being here. my colleague from virginia u.s. obamacare critics. i would not do that. i would characterize you as patient advocates. that leads you to be critical of the obamacare legislation. and out what is working what is not an make it better. i wish that had been the council this congress and applied before the passage of the health care bill because each of you has made testimony about nations that you had, patients are receiving care, patients are getting the individual attention that they need who will no longer because of this new legislation. those folks were having problems, we created this problems. you are all in the caretaking business or than i am, but the stories you tell the touch me the most other tales of the problems that we create, the uncertainty that you mentioned, dr. novak. there is no way t