Posted on 08/21/2014 4:00:26 PM PDT by markomalley
More than 2,000 more Coloradans had their health insurance plans cancelled as a result of the Affordable Care Act, according to a letter from the state regulatory agency to state Senate Republicans.
Following a dust-up earlier this year between Colorado Democratic Sen. Mark Udall and the Division of Insurance, Republicans have requested regular updates on policies that are cancelled because they don’t conform to Obamacare or because companies are getting out of the individual insurance market.
Udall disputed the original number of nearly a quarter million cancellations in the immediate wake of Obamacare’s rollout in late 2013, arguing that almost all of those whose plans were canceled were given options for renewing them early.
Emails obtained by the website Complete Colorado showed that Udall’s staff pressured the insurance commission to make that distinction to the point where some staffers felt bullied.
“Sen. Udall says our numbers were wrong,” wrote COI director of external affairs Jo Donlin in an email to her colleagues. “They are not wrong. Cancellation notices affected 249,199 people. They want to trash our numbers. I’m holding strong while we get more details. Many have already done early renewals. Regardless, they received cancellation notices.”
Udall’s critics seized on the exchange as an attempt to cover up Obamacare’s shortcomings. Most vocal is Republican Rep. Cory Gardner, who is locked in a neck-and-neck race with Udall.
“Mark Udall has voted with President Obama 99 percent of the time,” Gardner said in a new campaign ad released Thursday in which he address the issue head on. “I just wish that 1 percent [would have] been a vote against Obamacare.”
Gardner goes on to say “Mark Udall lied to the people of Colorado” for saying those who liked their existing plans and doctors can keep them.
Since the ruckus with the insurance commission became public in January, state Senate Republicans have requested regular updates from the insurance commission about continuing cancellations. In March, the commission reported 1,755 cancellations and in June another 2,320. Last week’s total was 2,105.
In all, nearly 340,000 Coloradans received cancellation notices, although not all are because they don’t conform to the ACA; some carriers are leaving the individual insurance market altogether.
The next open enrollment period for Colorado’s state-run health care exchange begins Nov. 15.
What a CATASTROPHE for those folks.
340,000 Coloradans received cancellation notices.
These people who hand insurance now have none thanks to the democrat party.
This isn’t even the worse, that is still to come later in the year and next year.
I wonder if any of them voted for Obama.
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Cant be. Obamacare supporters promised us this sort of thing would be in the past. /s
The ACA is so wonderful!
The next wave of cancellations will be coming in the 4th quarter of 2014 and Fortune 500 cancel policies of retirees and their spouses. Already be advised by my former company that 2014 is the last year of health insurance.
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What’s amazing to me is our progressive leftists refuse to believe this no matter how much proof is shoved in their faces. They are in denial.
Meanwhile, our media/press continues to support Udall and label Gardner as a radical when the opposite is true.
I'm just waiting for that historical moment when they come out and say, "Sorry, y'all. We made a mistake with 0care. The only way to fix it is to go with a single payer system!"
Mission Accomplished
“stop whining” - (your average Dem politician)
One can only hope.
Psalm 35
7 For without cause they hid their net for me;
without cause they dug a pit for my life.[b]
8 Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it!
And let the net that he hid ensnare him;
let him fall into it—to his destruction!
Lol.
Exactly I learned this when I was young kid.
If you are asked to do something and don’t want to do it, do a terrible job and you won’t be asked again. You get what you wanted all along.
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