Some Bay Staters who were given free taxpayer-funded insurance thanks to the state’s Obamacare website meltdown are now losing access to their primary care physicians, specialists and even their former prescription coverage because they’re not accepted under the new plan, the Herald has learned.

“It’s awesome they’re owning up to their mistakes and extending this to us free of charge, but the problem is, it’s awful coverage,” Bronwen Hodgkinson of Easthampton told the Herald.

Hodgkinson said the medication she takes for a skin condition — which cost her $150 a month under her old Blue Cross/Blue Shield plan — isn’t covered at all under MassHealth, and goes for $1,000 a month, which she can’t afford. MassHealth still refused to cover the cost, even after her PCP appealed the decision, she said.

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