CareFirst says 76,000 customers will lose current coverage due to Obamacare (40%)

Washington Examiner ^ | October 24, 2013 | PHILIP KLEIN

[Cincinatus' Wife]

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is being forced to cancel plans that currently cover 76,000 individuals in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., due to changes made by President Obama's health care law, the company told the Washington Examiner today.

That represents more than 40 percent of the 177,000 individuals covered by CareFirst in those states.

Though Obama famously promised that those who liked their health care coverage could keep it under his program, in reality, the health care law imposes a raft of new regulations on insurance policies starting Jan. 1 that are forcing insurers across the country to terminate existing plans.

In theory, rules were supposed to allow pre-existing plans to be "grandfathered in," but they were written so narrowly that they leave out many plans.

"Of the 177,000 individuals under age 65 who are covered by CareFirst, about 76,000 of them are in a non-grandfathered plan — a plan that will not comply with the guidelines imposed by the Affordable Care Act at their time of renewal this year or next," CareFirst said in an email in response to an inquiry by the Examiner.

[txrangerette]

Thnx for that link posting. I love this one above all because its focus is the AUDIENCE. What a lift these people gave Ted and the rest of us. Now what’s needed is for those who can SHARE this link, to do so.

I checked out his speech at the Iowa GOP Reagan dinner Friday evening. It’s available on C-Span.

When he’s introduced to the stage, I got a huge boost and good laugh when the introducer - who was obviously Indian American (from India) - touted Ted Cruz as the very first HISPANIC to address the Reagan dinner.

Now we know America is too divided along ethnic lines and all the pandering is wrong.

But what I love is that in light of this that we all know is tearing us down and helping Democrats, this guy cut right to the heart of things. Because if the media and the Dem and GOP-E DC polls didn’t hate and fear Ted Cruz, we know THEY would focus on his being half Hispanic. Instead, just like Zimmerman, they try to bury that and pretend he’s 100% Anglo.

So in that context, I think it was GREAT that the introducer said it.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thank you for the heads-up on the Cruz talk. I'm going to listen to it now. I've posted it here.