We see this type of news item almost on a daily basis. The Obama Administration defends itself against this and the lie it told the American people ("if you like your insurance, you can keep it, period . . . no matter what") by arguing that (a) the "losers" will still have insurance, but the policies will have been rewritten and the premiums will have been increased (often double or triple) in addition to raising deductibles (1500 to 5000 dollars) and (b) these "losers" need to know that the dirty old insurance companies broke Obama's promise, not Mr Honesty. Never mind the undebatable facts that all pre-existing polices will be re-written to include all elements of the ObamaCare "one size fits all" insurance model, that most pre-existing policies will see increases, and -- wait! there is more ! -- that Medicaid/Medicare monthly payments will be increased (as well).
No one is talking about this last bit of news (the increases in Medicare payments - no it is not "free" and no, you never stop paying for it) but my wife and I just received notice that my Medicare payments will increase by 2.5% in the single year of 2014; her payments will increase by 5% in the same 12 month period. If this rate of increase continues, my Medicare payments will be almost 8% higher than they are, presently, my wife's 15% higher - all just in time for the 2016 elections.
No one is talking about this last bit of news (the increases in Medicare payments - no it is not "free" and no, you never stop paying for it) but my wife and I just received notice that my Medicare payments will increase by 2.5% in the single year of 2014; her payments will increase by 5% in the same 12 month period. If this rate of increase continues, my Medicare payments will be almost 8% higher than they are, presently, my wife's 15% higher - all just in time for the 2016 elections.
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Out of the National Review we have this account: My wife, the syndicated San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders, has learned that at least 500,000 Californians may lose their health insurance next year — and that’s a conservative estimate. From her Token Conservative blog:
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300,000 to Lose Health Coverage in Fla., 160,000 in Calif. The California cancellations are in addition to those referenced above.
According to this link as of December 2012, there were 491,977 covered lives in individual health care plans regulated by the state Department Insurance that are not grandfathered under the Affordable Care Act. (If they bought a plan after March 2010, their coverage is not grandfathered.) . . . . . . . . .Those canceled policies will have to be replaced with Obamacare-approved insurance:
California Association of Health Plans president Pat Johnston told me that by law providers must cancel non-grandfathered individual policies. . . . . . . . . it may well be that ”if you’re outside that subsidy range, you’re on your own.”So much for, “If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance.” The train wreck continues.
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300,000 to Lose Health Coverage in Fla., 160,000 in Calif. The California cancellations are in addition to those referenced above.
