Posted on 12/12/2013 1:46:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In the face of mounting criticism, President Barack Obama announced last month that he would allow insurance companies to renew so-called "subpar" plans for existing customers. But nearly a month later, not everyone is seeing the benefit of this policy change.
CNN spoke with four people in the days and weeks that followed the president's announcement to see how they have been affected. Their results are varied, and for some of them, the future remains uncertain.
Catherine Franklin
46, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
It was September when Catherine Franklin received her letter. The much-maligned HealthCare.gov website had yet to be launched and approval ratings for the President's signature health care reform law were on an upswing.
Franklin knew she would have to sign up for a new insurance plan under Obamacare, but she didn't expect her options to be so costly.
The mom and Navy veteran is employed part time as a nurse. Her husband, David, is a small business owner. Franklin's employer offers insurance plans, but because she's not working full time, getting a policy to cover her family of three is expensive.
Unfortunately for Franklin, a provision in the new health care law states that, since her company offers plans that she could afford to cover herself, but not her family, she does not qualify for a subsidy through the federal government, even though she is below the income threshold.
She's therefore subject to an unusual loophole that requires her to pay the full premium on a new policy if she wants to cover her family, or leave her job to get the subsidy....
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Warning! A good chunk of the opposition to Obamacare is coming from people who think it’s NOT SOCIALIST ENOUGH.
They are getting ready to back “Hilarious Clingon” for 2016
Depends on the meaning of “IS” fixed.
lots of reporters work free lance, so I’m sure a lot of them are losing their insurance.
I bet the person that added the loophole read it. We know no one else did.
Hilarious Clingon - you need to trademark that!
I keep hearing the media statements to the effect that existing health plans are “subpar” but the MSM has yet to ask the question, “Substandard in what way?” I think if anyone ever gets around to it, they’ll discover that Obamacare carefully identified some minor detail that traditional plans don’t cover and consumers don’t value and made it a requirement.
Ironic, isn’t it? The first of the four interviewed needs to stop working part time to work full time in order to get insurance, under the rules of Obamacare, just as companies are shifting employees to part time because Obamacare.
SO begins the media push for single payer. THey are about to start chanting “We Want Single Payer Now!” on “behalf” of their imaginary readership.
CNN waited until after the 2012 election to report on this, when we knew about it in 2009. CNN loves Obama, which is why they waited.
That’s a pretty good article, I’m glad the first woman will be able to continue her coverage, maybe Obamacare will be repealed before she faces these problems again.
One thing comes through loud & clear these people had plans they liked, plans that met their needs and which they felt were affordable. Now Nanny Obama says: you’re wrong about your life, do what I say instead.
It may be that Obamacare will set Nanny-Liberalism back for a generation, but the Rs will probably mess that up.
There’s a pretty lively discussion going on in the comments over there, all about the national debt and who’s more to blame, etc.
I didn’t read it in depth, but it’s good to see some people are paying attention, even if some of them are wrong in what they think/say.
One commenter had a good one “it’s not red vs. blue, it’s us vs. them”.
I do think it seems more and more like that every day.
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