NOW because the law says everyone has to purchase an insurance plan, why offer a cheap plan? The government will subsidize the cost for those that can't afford it (IE OUR tax dollars will pay for the new higher cost plan). Why on earth would you offer a $.99 burger if the LAW says everyone has to buy a $4.00 bronze burger?? Want pickles on your $.99 burger? Well that's a change in the "Plan"... so $4 please. In fact, we don't offer the $.99 burger anymore ... sorry, you'll have to choose from our menu of OTHER, more expensive burgers. And if you decide to go hungry ... well the tax man commeth!
Until they pass a bill saying that insurance companies CAN'T change their policies (a losing idea for sure) and MUST keep all current policies on the books unchanged forever ... this is a moot point.
Business is business and this is all part of the business of nationalizing healthcare!
And don’t get me wrong. I’m NOT blaming the insurance companies completely. They were stupid enough to fall into the trap laid out by Obama and Obamacare. They are just doing what they think is good for their profit margins. Hey, we can get more money out of people that previously wouldn’t sign up for a more expensive plan?? Of course they will drop the cheap plans. But long term they are not seeing the “Single Payer” plan and realizing that at that moment ... Insurance companies are nothing more than bookkeepers for the Government Healthcare System.