President Barack Obama laughs while walking with Senior Advisor David Axelrod following an event at the Costa Mesa Town Hall at OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, Calif., March 18, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Posted on 11/05/2013 10:30:32 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
About 115,000 Californians whose individual health plans were set to expire at the end of the year will be given the option to extend their coverage though March 31.
Those with individual plans issued by Blue Shield of California Life & Health Insurance Company will be allowed to retain their plans for an extra three months regardless of whether they purchased the coverage before the March 2010 passage of the federal health care law - the cutoff for "grandfathered" policies.
Nearly 600,000 Californians who buy their own health insurance are bracing to pay more for new plans in large part because of the federal health care overhaul. Blue Shield of California had notified 119,000 subscribers that their plans would be withdrawn from the market and replaced with new compliant policies.
Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones asked that existing policyholders be allowed to retain their plans.
The cancellations have enraged customers nationwide and caused headaches for President Barack Obama, who last week was forced to walk back repeated assertions that Americans who were satisfied with their health plans could keep them.
Stephen Shivinsky, a spokesman for the company, said it was able to accommodate Jones' request because the insurance plans in question are regulated by the Department of Insurance. New plans offered on the state insurance marketplace, Covered California, are regulated by the Department of Managed Health Care and are bound by the model contract between the exchange and insurance companies.........
(Excerpt) Read more at modbee.com ...
Kicking the health care can down the road isn’t going to help anymore.
Three months will become 6 months, will become a year....
Blue Cross doing this is like a loan shark saying OK, don’t pay me the vig this week, I will just tack it onto your bill. Vito and Rocco will be by next week to collect the vig on the vig.
> “Stephen Shivinsky, a spokesman for the company, said it was able to accommodate Jones’ request because the insurance plans in question are regulated by the Department of Insurance. New plans offered on the state insurance marketplace, Covered California, are regulated by the Department of Managed Health Care and are bound by the model contract between the exchange and insurance companies....”
In other words, California will pickup the tab and Obama’s federal government will somehow fill the gap until March which is just so convenient as it happens after the next debt ceiling battle.
And if conservatives win the next debt ceiling battle, then California has the perfect excuse to stick it to insurance companies and blame the republicans for the debacle.
“and caused headaches for President Barack Obama, who last week was forced to walk back repeated assertions that Americans who were satisfied with their health plans could keep them.”
I haven’t heard him “walk back” his lies....I’ve heard that he denies them.
I wonder if this is legal...the IRS is in charge of enforcement.
“Nearly 600,000 Californians who buy their own health insurance are bracing to pay more for new plans in large part because of the federal health care overhaul. Blue Shield of California had notified 119,000 subscribers that their plans would be withdrawn from the market and replaced with new compliant policies.”
Take this number of 600000 and multiply it several times for the negative economic impact on Californians.
We are reading letters to the editors and hearing that even Kaiser is increasing costs for many of their subscribers and increasing the deductibles to go with higher co pays and drug costs.
We are getting the feeling that is starting to have a serious negative economic impact even in California counties/cities which have been having mini economic boom.
It doesn't surprise me one bit to see California to get the first past. Most of them voted for Obama. I will even bet that somehow they have even filtered the 115,000 in such a way as to make sure that most exceptions go to Democrat voters.
Photo caption: “And those smucks are actually going to believe my lies about them keeping their policies and doctors.”
BC/BS partners live behind the wall of fiction that they are “nonprofits”, which is laughable.
Thus they are always susceptible to Government blackmail and threats to kick the door down and show the public just how profitably nonprofit they are.
It’s a capitalist country and making profit is fine. Just don’t lie and hide behind the “nonprofit” moniker while claiming tax-exempt status.
That’s what you call a B*tch Slap to the Obamination. He blames the “bad apple” insurers for cancellations and they smack him down by helping the Obamacare victims.
What I would like to know is how did Harry Reid get the entire state of Nevada waived, or is that just a rumor?
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