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Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes
Kaiser Health News ^ | October 21, 2013 | By Anna Gorman and Julie Appleby

Posted on 10/21/2013 10:34:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Health plans are sending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters to people who buy their own coverage, frustrating some consumers who want to keep what they have and forcing others to buy more costly policies.

The main reason insurers offer is that the policies fall short of what the Affordable Care Act requires starting Jan. 1.

An estimated 14 million people purchase their own coverage because they don’t get it through their jobs. Calls to insurers in several states showed that many have sent notices.

Florida Blue, for example, is terminating about 300,000 policies, about 80 percent of its individual policies in the state. Kaiser Permanente in California has sent notices to 160,000 people – about half of its individual business in the state. Insurer Highmark in Pittsburgh is dropping about 20 percent of its individual market customers, while Independence Blue Cross, the major insurer in Philadelphia, is dropping about 45 percent.

(Excerpt) Read more at kaiserhealthnews.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cancellation; dropping; failure; healthcare; insurance; law; obamacare; policies; rinocare
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To: DTogo
If the public can only remember their outrage by the 2014 mid-terms: elections have consequences.

They will, and rest assured the result will be the GOP out of power in the House.
41 posted on 10/21/2013 2:58:16 PM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia; Oldeconomybuyer

Yep. Destroy the private insurers and force everyone onto government run health care.


42 posted on 10/21/2013 3:37:22 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: Mike Darancette

The real numbers will be in the millions if two states total nearly half a million.


43 posted on 10/21/2013 3:38:38 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: Mike Darancette

And that is just two companies in two states.


44 posted on 10/21/2013 3:38:59 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: piytar

Neither do I. When I make a new acquaintance and find out they are liberal, I never take the relationship further than that.


45 posted on 10/21/2013 3:40:30 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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Stop Obamacare before it stops you.
Support Free Republic.

46 posted on 10/21/2013 3:40:43 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Add in 800,000 for NJ. Will there be more than 7,000,000 effected? Looks like there might be.


47 posted on 10/21/2013 3:45:38 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Florida Blue was 300,000 alone?

0bamacare must have resulted in MIILIONS of cancelled policies, then.


48 posted on 10/21/2013 4:26:47 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("So the minimum plan for obamacare is 100 bucks a month I like you Obama but nigga I'm broke")
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To: MaxMax

The people will go quietly to their assinged cattle cars.


49 posted on 10/21/2013 4:28:57 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("So the minimum plan for obamacare is 100 bucks a month I like you Obama but nigga I'm broke")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Look for Obama to once again play the part of the innocent bystander, saying: “Nobody is madder about this than I am.”


50 posted on 10/21/2013 4:34:48 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The dhimmis have organs and tissues for the staff
and families of Congress and Unions and Islam,
as the “law” reads, AND they will pay taxes,
as slaves with their children,
to give up their rights and tissues.


51 posted on 10/21/2013 4:40:03 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Lady Jag

Great post. I remember back when that was first posted here a few years back. (and I have it saved) That one picture spoke VOLUMES at the time! (pun intended) But the country was already too far gone, even then. I think the sheeple slaves will not even start complaining until the FEMA camp gates are closed behind them. Useful Obamabot idiots! :((


52 posted on 10/21/2013 5:07:03 PM PDT by ResisTyr ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God " ~Thomas Jefferson)
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53 posted on 10/21/2013 5:11:37 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: bigbob

My local paper cited a AP source claiming almost all of the people who signed Up in CT were elderly. They were worried that the might skew the “bell curve” needed to keep BarryCare afloat.


54 posted on 10/21/2013 5:40:14 PM PDT by matt04
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To: silverleaf
...what kind of doctor goes through med school internship residency etc - to be a govt employee?

I have an unusually prescient grand-nephew who saw all this coming before Obama made his appearance. He had planned to be a doctor but seeing the writing on the wall, he shifted gears; he will receive his PhD in engineering next year. He told me that he had no intention of being a doctor employed by the government.

55 posted on 10/21/2013 6:15:15 PM PDT by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about its implications.)
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To: piytar

Back when I was speaking to libs I’d always get a “deer in the headlight” look.


56 posted on 10/21/2013 7:21:57 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Obama media will blame Republicans and the Republican party is too stupid to capitalize on this cause they are too busy alienating Tea party/Conservatives


57 posted on 10/21/2013 7:41:09 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Sarah Barracuda


58 posted on 10/21/2013 7:43:06 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (National Pk Srv: “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
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Why ObamaCare is a fantastic success

….in hundreds of articles and commentaries, that ObamaCare was never meant to help America, or heal the sick, or lower healthcare costs, or lower the debt, or expand the economy.

The GOP needs to stop calling ObamaCare a “trainwreck.” That means it’s a mistake, or accident. That means it’s a gigantic flop, or failure. It’s NOT.

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This is a brilliant, cynical, and purposeful attempt to damage the U.S. economy, kill jobs, and bring down capitalism.

It’s not a failure, it’s Obama’s grand success.


59 posted on 10/21/2013 7:48:47 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (National Pk Srv: “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting)
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To: First_Salute

My liberal and progressive friends, do “not want to hear about it.”

Until it effects them personally, of course...

Until then, anyone that mentions these inconvenient truths is just a racist that hates the idea of a black president.

I’m keeping a running score of how many people say, “you mean I have to PAY for that?”


60 posted on 10/21/2013 9:46:48 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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