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Reply to "Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance"

Originally Posted by Crash.Override:

well, i wonder when the republicans will admit the insurance companies are out for more profit and just don't want to keep the "grandfathered" policies? there is little to no profit left for the insurance companies in these policies and they get to blame obama for the action.

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Sorry, NBC exposed that was not true.  The Obamacare law was the reason.

 

"Four sources deeply involved in the Affordable Care Act tell NBC NEWS that 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to receive a “cancellation” letter or the equivalent over the next year because their existing policies don’t
meet the standards mandated by the new health care law. One expert predicts that number could reach as high as 80 percent. And all say that  many of those forced to buy pricier new policies will experience “sticker shock.”  

 

None of this should come as a shock to the Obama administration. The law states that policies in effect as of March 23, 2010 will be “grandfathered,” meaning consumers can keep those policies even though they don’t meet requirements of the new health care law. But the Department of Health and Human Services then wrote regulations that narrowed that provision, by saying that if any part of a policy was significantly changed since that date -- the deductible, co-pay, or benefits, for example -- the policy would not be grandfathered.

 

Buried in Obamacare regulations from July 2010 is an estimate that because of normal turnover in the individual insurance market, “40 to 67 percent” of customers will not be able to keep their policy. And because many policies will have been changed since the key date, “the percentage of individual market policies losing grandfather status in a given year exceeds the 40 to 67 percent range.”  

 

That means the administration knew that more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them. "

 

http://investigations.nbcnews....ealth-insurance?lite

Even NBC, whose editorial staff turned left a few years ago, ain't buying Obama's lies anymore. 

Obamacare depends upon those who were canceled signing up for more expensive insurance to make the system work. 


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