By all accounts, it won't be better coverage, it will be more expensive, and 'good luck' being eligible for those supposed subsidies. Individual policies catered to individual needs...gone. If folks can't see this is heading towards single-payer one-size fits all, just take it from any number of decrepit lawmakers on Capitol Hill, like Reid or Conyers. Don't count on those caps either when your family's faced with higher premiums, deductibles and co-pays.KaiserHealthNews: 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. Most are ending policies sold after the law passed in March 2010. At least a few are cancelling plans sold to people with pre-existing medical conditions.
By all accounts, the new policies will offer consumers better coverage, in some cases, for comparable cost -- especially after the inclusion of federal subsidies for those who qualify. The law requires policies sold in the individual market to cover 10 “essential” benefits, such as prescription drugs, mental health treatment and maternity care. In addition, insurers cannot reject people with medical problems or charge them higher prices. The policies must also cap consumers’ annual expenses at levels lower than many plans sold before the new rules.
But the cancellation notices, which began arriving in August, have shocked many consumers in light of President Barack Obama’s promise that people could keep their plans if they liked them.
And the GOP establishment didn't feel the need to fight alongside Cruz and Lee to STOP Obamacare? Having more Americans harmed by this government seizure for the possibility of a political gain? Says a lot more about where their hearts lie (either meaning of the word) than their feigned outrage at the few genuinely principled statesmen on Capitol Hill.
But back to Obama's promise that you can keep your insurance. What a damn lie that was from the beginning. Whatever it took to sell it to suckers (in his eyes, in the Democratic eye atop the Hill, that's how the American people are viewed by these statists...or at least their own constituency).
UPDATE: From the still-hoping-it-will-collapse-on-its-own wing of the Republican Party leadership...
WashingtonTimes: House Speaker John A. Boehner predicted Wednesday that by the end of the month, more Americans will have lost their insurance by being kicked off existing health plans than the number who were able to sign up in the flawed online healthcare.gov website.Yep, very likely...which is why you should have been fighting tooth-and-nail alongside Cruz and Lee to STOP this disaster instead of caving with McConnell (and I'm not just talking about the latest showdown).
And the early numbers may back him up.
Kaiser Health News reported this week that hundreds of thousands of Americans have received notices from their insurers canceling their policies: 300,000 from Florida Blue and 160,000 from Kaiser Permanente in California.
