Quantum Windbag
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I cannot believe they actually said this.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/o...-not-worth-keeping.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=2&
What are they going to say next year when the employer plans hit the same problems?
Congressional Republicans have stoked consumer fears and confusion with charges that the health care reform law is causing insurers to cancel existing policies and will force many people to pay substantially higher premiums next year for coverage they dont want. That, they say, violates President Obamas pledge that if you like the insurance you have, you can keep it. Mr. Obama clearly misspoke when he said that. By law, insurers cannot continue to sell policies that dont provide the minimum benefits and consumer protections required as of next year. So theyve sent cancellation notices to hundreds of thousands of people who hold these substandard policies. (At issue here are not the 149 million people covered by employer plans, but the 10 million to 12 million people who buy policies directly on the individual market.)
But insurers are not allowed to abandon enrollees. They must offer consumers options that do comply with the law, and they are scrambling to retain as many of their customers as possible with new policies that are almost certain to be more comprehensive than their old ones.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/o...-not-worth-keeping.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=2&
What are they going to say next year when the employer plans hit the same problems?