Policy cancellations, higher premiums add to frustration over Obamacare – CBS News.
I thought you could keep your plan…
In California, Kaiser Permanente terminated policies for 160,000 people. In Florida, at least 300,000 people are losing coverage.
That includes 56-year-old Dianne Barrette. Last month, she received a letter from Blue Cross Blue Shield informing her as of January 2014, she would lose her current plan. Barrette pays $54 a month. The new plan she’s being offered would run $591 a month — 10 times more than what she currently pays.
Barrette said, “What I have right now is what I am happy with and I just want to know why I can’t keep what I have. Why do I have to be forced into something else?”
Although Dianne is eligible for subsidies, which will reduce the cost of her coverage somewhat.
To repeat myself, not to mention Obama many times, I thought you could keep your plan. The typical response is if you have a plan that is from a time prior to when the Obamacare plans graced the earth, it’s so inferior that there is no reason any person with an ounce of intelligence could possibly consider “keeping their plan.”
Thankfully I CAN keep my plan because it qualifies under the grandfathered provision of the ACA. Also, Children’s Hospital sure thought the $200,000 to $300,000 they received from a ‘worthless plan’ was plenty fine.
