Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes

Kaiser Health News ^ | October 21, 2013 | By Anna Gorman and Julie Appleby

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Health plans are sending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters to people who buy their own coverage, frustrating some consumers who want to keep what they have and forcing others to buy more costly policies.

The main reason insurers offer is that the policies fall short of what the Affordable Care Act requires starting Jan. 1.

An estimated 14 million people purchase their own coverage because they don’t get it through their jobs. Calls to insurers in several states showed that many have sent notices.

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.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Obamacare is destroying the private insurance industry.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Just as planned.

[First_Salute]

My liberal and progressive friends, do “not want to hear about it.”

[Mr. Peabody]

The most important thing to remember is it’s not Obama’s fault.

[piytar]

I don’t have liberal or progressive friends. Do have a few lib acquaintances. Their response when I bring these facts up? “Stop getting all your news from Fox.”

[JPG]

It's FREE*.

*Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

[Mike Darancette]

That’s hundreds of thousands, for now. There may be more forced out of their policies and/or doctors than sign up.

[oh8eleven]

Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes
Misleading headline. From the article ...

"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."

Headline should read - MILLIONS Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes

[Sarah Barracuda]

Obamacare is destroying the private insurance industry.

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Of course he is, that was the original plan

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That was the plan...

[Sarah Barracuda]

“Stop getting all your news from Fox.”

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Yes, let’s all watch MSNBC again, we can all become zombie drones

[Red Badger]

That part works...............

[Kickass Conservative]

Obama lied, Healthcare died...

[HiTech RedNeck]

“Why, is it because Fox refuses to be an unpaid cheering section for your idol?”

[bigbob]

tell them “I don’t, I get it from my insurance carrier”.

My Fortune 50 former employer dropped retiree healthcare as soon as Obamacare said they could legally do so.

[MaxMax]

STOP THIS MADNESS!! OMG.. How many hundreds of Reps do we have in DC, and how many
of those HUNDREDS didn't have the balls to call this madness out before it started?

People had better get really pissed-Off and do something about it, NOW!

[MaxMax]

You are giving those people to much credit as friends. Those are not friends and you
can bet your ass they're laughing at you behind your back. Now who's the useful idiot?

You should be calling them out and embarrassing them at every chance until they
stop calling you. Imo, you're adding to the problem by not belittling them at every point of fact.

[AceMineral]

I got one of those letters from BC/BS of Arkansas. My current policy is terminated as of January 1, 2014. However, I can keep it in force through December 31, 2014. I don’t get it either.

[bigbob]

Wait a couple of years, when the youts will have paid the cheap penalty instead of buying insurance and the risk pools have all been skewed. By then there’ll be fewer insurance companies even left in business and fewer policy choices, along with even higher prices. And when the whole system collapses, President Hillary can put in a single payer system, which is what they wanted all along.

Everything depends on 2014 and 2016.

[Signalman]

“Obamacare is destroying the private insurance industry.”

That’s what it’s supposed to do