Friday, October 25, 2013

If you like your coverage, you can keep it, period..

Obama assured people that if they already had insurance that Obamacare would not affect them. That is turning out to be a lie, as John McCormack explains in the Weekly Standard. The new standards of Obamacare, requiring insurance to cover scores of procedures that are often not included in health plans that many people have, are making those plans illegal. The notices have been going out to people that they are Losing Their Health Plans Because of Obamacare.

"[T]he cancellation notices, which began arriving in August, have shocked many consumers in light of President Barack Obama’s promise that people could keep their plans if they liked them," according to Kaiser Health News reporters Anna Gorman and Julie Appleby.
"Florida Blue, for example, is terminating about 300,000 policies, about 80 percent of its individual policies in the state. Kaiser Permanente in California has sent notices to 160,000 people – about half of its individual business in the state.  Insurer Highmark in Pittsburgh is dropping about 20 percent of its individual market customers, while Independence Blue Cross, the major insurer in Philadelphia, is dropping about 45 percent,"  Kaiser reports. "Blue Shield of California sent roughly 119,000 cancellation notices out in mid-September, about 60 percent of its individual business.  About two-thirds of those policyholders will see rate increases in their new policies, said spokesman Steve Shivinsky."
The website problems are entertaining, but this is the real outrage of Obamacare.

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