Posted on 10/21/2013 10:34:42 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at kaiserhealthnews.org ...
headline is misleading should say “HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS” as per the article
Is anyone “keeping their doctor”?
Is obama keeping his doctor?
Do you have to move to Costa Rica to keep your doctor?
No one can put in a “single payer” system if there aren’t enough doctors to pay
and..... what kind of doctor goes through med school internship residency etc - to be a govt employee?
obamas think everyone gets the same lux life from “public service” as they do!
Yes. The insurance companies decided to drop 14 million policies simultaneously, just to make Obama look bad.
It will take a lot more cancellations before enough people remove their heads from their semi-permanent home in the tail end of their digestive tract and realize what a colossal mistake they made in 2008 and 2012.
Is anybody tracking the layoffs?
Poor Obama!
Couple years back, Obastard said, repeatedly, “If you like your plan, you get to keep your plan!”
Responses to that promise fell into two basic groups: People who did not believe him and people who did.
For those of you who believed him and called the rest of us racists for disbelieving The Won, I say “Tough noogies! You’re getting what you deserve in the form of a ‘stupidity tax.’”
For those who did not believe him, you have my deepest sympathy because the retards in the other category dragged your down with their idiocy.
What am I supposed to feel sorry for these people?
For years I’ve had moderates and the uninformed lecturing me about the goodness of Obamacare.
Now they can all kiss my ass.
They get their “news” from some 3rd rate stand-up comic on Comedy Central.
Tell them it is their fault America is being destroyed
They must be confronted with the truth.
bump
You are different than me. I have NO liberal or progressive friends. I refuse to hang out with them.
so did you respond with “No, I get my info now from Freerepublic.”
A couple of my wife’s friends are Obamaoids.. They sure can cook&bake tho.. Unlike Hillary or Moochelle.. It’s their saving grace, if ya git my tummy’s drift. I avoid political discussions,, for the chilrun.. And my gut.
We’re Kaiser folkk here, haven’t gotten a cancel notice yet, but who knows..
California, leading the nation into an abyss.
My Blue Cross plan is being canceled. I called my agent today and she’s going to get some quotes for me, so I don’t yet know how they will compare to my old policy.
She said there’s no reason to go on the exchanges unless you can’t get insurance privately or may qualify for a subsidy. Neither of those applies to me.
She also said that the exchanges are being flooded with high risk people (pre-existing conditions) and those who will receive subsidies. Also that your premiums on the exchange will be through the roof if you don’t fall into one of those two categories.
She checked for herself. She’s maybe 55-60 years old and her premium through the exchange would be in excess of $2,000/month.
Her observation is be prepared because taxes are going to go sky high to implement this program because there will be so few people who will be paying their own way.
it’s a tax
with a hey nonny
If the public can only remember their outrage by the 2014 mid-terms: elections have consequences.
460,000 in 2 states alone ...
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