I keep hearing about "canceled policies", but it is never mentioned who! Who canceled the policies?
Con Bots will claim, they were forced to, which is a lie. They could have changed the policy, as they do and have done for years.
It was for the shock value. It worked on the misinformed Cons.
So did the Government cancel the policies?
Or was it the Insurance companies who will lose out on being the largest recipient of corporate welfare.
Pushing the expense of caring for the people they were supposed to be insuring, on to the American people/Middle Class
Greg2014-01-03T13:29:22Z
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It would be more correct to say "not renewed at current prices" than it is to say "cancelled."
It simply blows my mind that all these devout "conservatives" want anyone but themselves to pay for THEIR health care.
Sorry Charlie.... the "free market" sets the prices. And the "free market" includes parasitic insurance companies who just take a 25% cut for cashing checks and writing out new ones. For now.
The fact is there were a lot of policy holders that insurance companies did not want and the corporate news teams protect the corporate insurance companies from scrutiny and try to keep us focused on things that really do not matter.
For example, insurance corporation profits are capped under ObamaCare. If insurance is expensive it is because Medical Care is expensive.
New Report: Debunking Republican Claims about Coverage Losses under the Affordable Care Act
Dec 31, 2013 Today Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman released a new report on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The new report finds that contrary to claims by Republican critics, five million Americans will not lose coverage in 2014 due to the ACA. Even if one assumes the reported number of initial cancellations is accurate, the number of individuals who are unable to renew pre-ACA coverage, enroll in subsidized coverage, or access a catastrophic plan is likely under 10,000 people, which is just 0.2% of the estimate made by opponents of the Affordable Care Act.
Why insurance companies cancelled the policies because of the Obama mandate that "children" under 26 be kept on mummy and daddy's policies, pre existing conditions had to be covered and in some markets their profit margin was too slim.
We know that Obama said "if you like your policy you can keep your policy, if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" so two things spring to mind. One, he had no idea that there would be a massive pushback from insurers and two, he actually thought the health care industry would swallow the bitter pill he had fed them.
Medicaid will necessarily have to expand which will eventually have ramifications for the rest of us. The IPAB in the ACA was created to decide on the outcome vs cost for Medicaid and Medicare patients, aka that dramatic term "death panels."
Some are going to win, many are going to lose and that's exactly how Obama wants this to go down.
His leadership is about punishment - many of his supporters will gain access to health care, a good thing. Many who had access, can no longer afford it.
Lots of blame to go around, including Obama and Pelosil
Welcome To America Now Go Home2014-01-03T21:29:59Z
Sigh yet another brain dead liberal. Those perfectly good policies (if YOU disagree they were good then PROVE it) policies were canceled by the insurance companies BECAUSE of the unreasonable requirements set forth under the ACA. So YES because of a idiotic GOVERNMENT policy those plans (mine included) were canceled and we were forced by GOVERNMENT policy to purchase plans with coverage we neither need nor want.
You can deny it all you want but it doesn't change the facts.