Posted on 04/11/2014 2:01:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I never wanted to be a pawn in President Obama’s absurd and irresponsible attempt to mandate, regulate and complicate the American health care system. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much of a choice.
I was a casualty of Mr. Obama’s Big Lie. You know the one: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” By the time my plan vanished, the only individual health insurance plans available had been captured by the tentacles of Obamacare.
Signing up for insurance was harder than making sense of Donald Trump’s hair. It took more than 20 attempts over four days just to get on the “Health Insurance Marketplace” website and shop for insurance.
The plan most similar to my canceled plan cost nearly $1,000 more a year, and my deductible increased from about $2,000 to more than $5,000. So I was forced to pay almost twice as much for a whole lot less insurance.
It’s surprising there’s not a link to buy a solid-gold eight-track player on the Healthcare.gov site — everything else for sale in Mr. Obama’s marketplace is also ridiculously overpriced and pretty much useless. Signing up for Obamacare was a tremendous hassle. But even that experience was a joy compared with what I went through to cancel my coverage.
On the same day that I was counted as one of the 7.1 million Americans that Mr. Obama energetically exploited during his Obamacare victory lap, I was able to enroll in a group insurance plan through my employer. I was free from the shackles of my terrible Obamacare plan — or so I thought.
When I tried to terminate my plan, my insurance company told me that plans purchased through the marketplace could only be canceled through the marketplace. That started a brutal three-day fiasco.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
If you simply quit paying, wouldn’t that effectively cancel it?
When a friend’s policy was cancelled she signed up with Obamacare. Then Obama said she could keep her policy for another year. She spent three solid days on the phone to get Obamacare cancelled. She was told that the system didn’t allow for cancellations and there was no method to do so. She finally changed her bank account to a different bank as the bank told her they could not guarantee they wouldn’t honor a debit request against her account by the government.
The carrier did finally get her cancelled.
Sounds as if they took their business model from AOL.
She needed to change banks also. She should have informed them loudly and firmly personally in the bank that if they paid anyone out of a closed account they could bite it themselves.
Why yes it would cancel it
BUT you’d get 2 more months free
and any care’s cost you received would be eaten by the Doc lab and or hospital
that is the “ grace period”
Sadly enough, when trapped in Kafkaesque situation like this, the simplest thing to do is to simply cancel the banking or credit card account that’s being autodrafted. Then the shoe will be on the other foot. Even better, it’s likely you’ll have free health insurance for months, heck maybe years, before Obama’s incompetent minions can get around to figuring out how to cancel your insurance due to nonpayment.
people lie all the time.
how much of this story is strictly true?
for example...
when an invisible, anonymous voice on the phone tells you...
you can only cancel thru the marketplace...
perhaps that really means —>
I don’t get a commission for doing that, so eff off.
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