Posted on 03/03/2014 2:50:32 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
What happens if you enroll in Obamacare and then decide somewhere down the road that you want out? It’s early days, but here’s one Florida man’s anecdote — and it’s not encouraging.
“People who signed up for coverage are finding it impossible to cancel their plans,” reported Orlando’s WFTL-TV last week in a feature highlighting an Orange County man who, after six weeks of effort, had not been able to extricate himself from the Federal health plan.
“Andrew Robinson was looking forward to getting health insurance through the Affordable Care Act,” explained reporter Lori Brown. “He has a small publishing business and works part time, so he hasn’t had coverage. In early January, he signed up for a plan that cost nearly $300 a month. About a half hour later, he and his wife realized they could barely afford that. They quickly found a less expensive plan through Humana — for $116 a month.”
Whoops. That uneasy feeling you may have had about throwing your personal information into a bureaucratic black hole may have been well justified, if what happened to Robinson is any indication.
“I immediately called back the Florida Blue and asked them to cancel the policy I just set up,” he said. But this isn’t Amazon.com; it’s Obamacare:
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[H]e quickly learned canceling Obamacare is no easy task. He says Florida Blue told him if he signed up for the other policy, his Florida Blue policy would cancel automatically.
“I got the premium two days later, and it almost wiped out our account.”
More than six weeks later, after spending 50 to 60 hours on the phone, his policy is still not canceled. And he is still waiting for the payment Florida Blue withdrew from his account to be refunded.
“This is like, just taking my patience right to the end; and I am on the verge of just exploding,” Robinson said.
According to Florida Blue, the company can’t cancel Robinson’s insurance until it receives notification from the Federal insurance marketplace that he has, in fact, obtained other insurance to take its place.
And that brings up another enforcement feature of Obamacare that, so far, has been overshadowed by the hoopla over the Internal Revenue Service’s expanded powers: The Federal health care marketplace itself can act as an Obamacare enforcer, tethering people who voluntarily approached the exchange for coverage to their initial decision for a very long time — no matter whether they later wish to exercise their own free will to drop coverage outright, or simply find a better deal somewhere else.
-— More than six weeks later, after spending 50 to 60 hours on the phone -—
This will come as a surprise to no one here, yet this scenario mystifies liberals. The liberal mind is a frightening thing.
It’s like a Roach Motel.
ObamaCare - just like Islam and the Mafia - you can get in no problem, but getting out? You gotta die first, buddy!
This is ridiculous. All hed had to do was cease paying. All he had to do was instruct the bank to cease paying the autodrafts. Or, he should withdraw all the money and close the account.
So! Obamacare is like a Roach Motel.
Welcome To The Hotel Barack Obama
Relax said Sebelius,
We are programmed to receive.
You can check out any time you like,
But you can never leave.
Why take a chance on losing your $2,500 from King Obama????
Obamacare is giant Roach Motel!
Paging Paul Shanklin, Paul Shanklin!!!!
I guess I should have read a few comments before I posted...
Death is the only escape.
From what I’ve read elsewhere, this payment is automatically deducted from his bank account.
Close the account, open a new one with different bank account numbers. End of problem.
Yes.
A big ball of bovine butt butter.
I was told I would be on my employer’s plan by February, but lo and behold, Obamacare muddled things up, so now I have to wait until November.
I was considering taking something from the healthcare.gov website until then (only considering really. I don’t trust the site at all), but now I think I’ll just wait and take the chance.
The ACA, is juste like the “Roach Motel!”
Perfect!!
This witch was in TX last week extolling the *wonderful benefits* of 0SocialismCare. Every word they played of hers was a LIE! Why she’s even allowed to set foot in this state is beyond me.
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