red states rule
10-25-2013, 01:52 AM
More lives devastated thanks to Obamacare - and more results for the liberal media and Obama lap dogs to ignore
Where the hell is that liberal compassion for these folks? Or does the left consider all these people bumps in the road and glitches?
This afternoon, “you can keep your plan” takes another blow. Philip Klein reports that 76,000 of Blue Cross Blue Shield’s individual market customers will lose their current plan. Now, as the president might say, let me be clear. It was always a lie that everyone could keep your plan if you liked it because Obamacare’s new mandates and “essential health benefits” made it literally impossible and illegal for certain existing plans to continue to exist. So, it wasn’t a matter of opinion or paranoia or mere possibilities of unintended consequences. The fact that you could not keep your plan was in the law, and yet, President Obama got away with saying “If you like your plan you can keep it,” and calling those who noticed the impossibility “fearmongers.”
Flash forward: (http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2537782)
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 the 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 as to 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.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/24/carefirst-says-76000-of-its-customers-will-lose-plans-because-of-obamacare/
Where the hell is that liberal compassion for these folks? Or does the left consider all these people bumps in the road and glitches?
This afternoon, “you can keep your plan” takes another blow. Philip Klein reports that 76,000 of Blue Cross Blue Shield’s individual market customers will lose their current plan. Now, as the president might say, let me be clear. It was always a lie that everyone could keep your plan if you liked it because Obamacare’s new mandates and “essential health benefits” made it literally impossible and illegal for certain existing plans to continue to exist. So, it wasn’t a matter of opinion or paranoia or mere possibilities of unintended consequences. The fact that you could not keep your plan was in the law, and yet, President Obama got away with saying “If you like your plan you can keep it,” and calling those who noticed the impossibility “fearmongers.”
Flash forward: (http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2537782)
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 the 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 as to 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.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/24/carefirst-says-76000-of-its-customers-will-lose-plans-because-of-obamacare/