Penny MG Loc: Fresno, Texas

Just came across this and this is not the first time I've heard this.

Obama lied, my health plan diedMichelle Malkin - Guest Columnist
http://michellemalkin.com/

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on printMore Sharing Services458ObamaCare is destroying the private individual market for health insurance by design, not accident. For hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of self-employed job creators, three fundamental ObamaCare truths are becoming as clear as Obama's growing nose: 1) You can't keep it. 2) We're screwed. 3) The do-gooders don't care.


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Like an estimated 22 million other Americans, I am a self-employed small-business owner who buys health insurance for my family directly on the individual market. We have a high-deductible PPO plan that allows us to choose from a wide range of doctors.

Or rather, we had such a plan.

Last week, our family received notice from Anthem BlueCross BlueShield of Colorado that we can no longer keep the plan we like because of "changes from health care reform (also called the Affordable Care Act or ACA)." The letter informed us that "(t)o meet the requirements of the new laws, your current plan can no longer be continued beyond your 2014 renewal date."

In short: Obama lied. My health plan died.

Remember? Our president looked America straight in the eye and promised: "If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what."

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., also lied when she pledged: "Keep your doctor, and your current plan, if you like them."

This isn't just partisan business. It's personal. Our cancellation letter states that Anthem is "not going to be selling new individual PPO plans." When we asked whether we could keep our children's doctors, an agent for Anthem told my husband and me she didn't know. The insurer has no details available yet on what exactly they'll be offering. We either will be herded into the ObamaCare federal health insurance exchange regime (launching October 1), a severely limited HMO plan, or presented with costlier alternatives from another insurer. If they even exist.

My family is not alone. Across the country, insurers are sending out ObamaCare-induced health plan death notices to untold tens of thousands of other customers in the individual market. Twitter users are posting their ObamaCare cancellation notices and accompanying rate increases:

Linda Deright posted her letter from Regency of Washington state: "63 percent jump, old policy of 15 yrs. cancelled." Karen J. Dugan wrote: "Received same notice from Blue Shield CA for our small business. Driving into exchange and no info since online site is down." Chris Birk wrote: "Got notice from BCBS that my current health plan is not ACA compliant. New plan 2x as costly for worse coverage." Small-business owner Villi Wilson posted his letter from HMSA Blue Cross Blue Shield canceling his individual plan and added: "I thought Obama said if I like my health care plan I can keep my health care plan."

Few among Washington's protected political class are paying attention, because they enjoy their lucrative government benefits and are exempted from ObamaCare’s destructive consequences. But one of my state's congressional representatives, GOP Rep. Cory Gardner, also lost his individual market plan. Unlike most politicians on Capitol Hill, Gardner chose not to enroll in the federal health insurance program. He told me that he opted to participate in the private market "because I wanted to be in the same boat as my constituents. And now that boat is sinking!"

Gardner points to recent analysis showing individual market rate increases of 23 percent to 25 percent in Colorado. "After my current plan is discontinued," he wrote last week, "the closest comparable plan through our current provider will cost over 100 percent more, going from roughly $650 a month to $1,480 per month." He now carries his ObamaCare cancellation notice with him as hardcore proof of the Democrats' ultimate deception.

Maryland announced that its post-ObamaCare individual market rates could also rise by a whopping 25 percent. The National Association for the Self-Employed is recommending that its small-business owners and freelancers plan for at least a 15-percent increase nationwide. One of the reasons for those rate hikes, of course, is that ObamaCare's mandated benefits provisions force insurers to carry coverage for items that individual market consumers had deliberately chosen to forgo.

Americans who had opted for affordable catastrophic coverage-style plans now have fewer and fewer choices. This includes a whole class of musicians, photographers, artists, writers, actors and other creative people who purchased health plans through the individual market or through small professional organizations. As St. Vincent College arts professor Ben Schachter reports in the Weekly Standard, groups like the College Art Association, Modern Language Association and the Entertainment Industry Group Insurance Trust are dropping their plans. Young, healthy members of these groups "are far more likely to see their rates go up -- or to face the individual mandate penalties."

Thanks to Obama, access is down. Premiums and health care spending are up. Research and development on lifesaving drugs and medical devices are down. Hours and benefits have been cut because of ObamaCare costs and regulatory burdens by at least 300 American companies, according to Investor's Business Daily. And the ObamaCare layoff bomb continues to claim victims.

ObamaCare is destroying the private individual market for health insurance by design, not accident. For hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of self-employed job creators, three fundamental ObamaCare truths are becoming as clear as Obama's growing nose: 1) You can't keep it. 2) We're screwed. 3) The do-gooders don't care.

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Michelle Malkin (malkinblog@gmail.com) is author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies" (Regnery 2010).

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JayBird

Don't believe the hype..your carrier cant cancel your policy. Your carrier is making changes to their way of doing business and dont know where to place you yet. I just got my coverage..it 370 dollars cheaper. I got vision and dental which I didmt have before. Only setback..I got 150. Dollar deductible compared to 50. Deductible before

cthahn

Did you vote for Obuma? If you did, you listened and believed all his lies. If you didn't vote for him, then consider your self just screwed by him and all the incompetent idiots in congress. They all have their own special policy including all government employees.

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

Obummer is the biggest lier that ever held that office. And we had plenty of them. Remember I didnt have sex with that girl Clinton? Obummer promestto fix the debt bush left us with. He only didnt fix it he made it much worse. He promest to bring our boys home. He only moved them ot a different place to be killed.

Diogenes

The Hedge Hogs apparently have no rules
About admitting cretins and fools
They open the spigots
To crap from the bigots (are you listening Hal?)
And engage in mindless duels.

Richard94611 Loc: Oakland, CA

ObamaCare is here to stay. And people will generally like it, just as they like Medicare and Social Security. The attempt by the Republicans to gain another year before ObamaCare goes into effect is a sad one, doomed to failure.

We should all remember that these voices against ObamaCare started just as Obama came into office -- and a lot of them because he is Black, not because of his policies.

He's got the Republicans painted into a corner. Stop the functioning of government and you'll suffer in the elections coming up. Obviously Republicans don't care how much they damage the economics and faith people put in our government. Just as long as they have their way, they'll shoot themselves and everyone else in the foot.

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

Truth hurts when brought to light. Take heed before its too late. Why do you bring bigots in are you one? You are the mindless one if you cant see what is happing to our once great country.We try to open your eyes and you refuse to see the truth. Theres no hope for you if you cant see the truth when we shine the light on it. Cant you think for your self or are you brainwashed like the rest of the sheeppeople. Learn to think for your self Look what going on and the direction we are heading. If you cant see it than your a big part of the proublem.

Lmarc Loc: Ojojona, Honduras

I always liked limericks, but do you know what is anapaestic meter? Your rhyme scheme is good, but the rhyming itself is a little off with the word "duels". I put this together to illustrate what I mean:

Said Obama to those whom he rules,
"Let's go bait some conservative fools."
So ol' Diogenes
Fell in line on his knees
With the rest of the liberal tools.

Hey, I'm joking! There's a lot of poetic license among limericks. I'm just doing this in defense of my pal, Hal. (Geezzz...can't stop rhyming!)
:D

Richard94611 Loc: Oakland, CA

First of all, Hal, our country is not a "once great country." It is a great country now, and we have a lot more freedoms than people have in most of the 18 countries where I have traveled or lived.

I bring bigots into the situation because bigotry is one of the prime motivating factors for the hatred of Obama. You can accuse me of being one, but I have spent a large part of my life working actively for the civil rights of African-Americans, so you are barking up the wrong tree.

What is happening in this country is that the members of the "Party of Stupid" are trying to block every social advance anyone proposes, even those that have been passed by the Legislature and approved by the Supreme Court. To do this, they are quite willing to bring government to a halt. Too bad. This will amount to shooting themselves in the foot, and will cause untold financial suffering to many people in the USA. In the long run, however, it will result in a cleansing of the system as these rightwing nut jobs get cast out of power.

Richard94611 Loc: Oakland, CA

Hal, when you speak of how horrible ObamaCare is, you really do not know the facts. Read the following article, just published by Vanity Fair.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/eichenwald/2013/09/republicans-know-obamacare-will-work

You have not discerned that the Republican Party has been lying, lying, lying about ObamaCare in an effort to bring down Obama. It isn't about medical care to them. It is about Obama and destroying the single most important accomplishment of his presidency. This is because he is a Democrat and because he is Black.

Yes, "Truth hurts when it is brought to light." You must be in deep pain about now.

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

You do not know me at all if you think I am a bigot. You could ask any, and their are many of my black friends and they could im the fartherist thing from being called a bigot. Back in the early 50s while in the navy I moved to the back of the bus with my best friend because the driver said he wouldnt move the bus till that n----- moved to the back. That was in norfolk Vergina. What would you have done. I also got a good black friend of mine moved from his common job in our company to our industral relations dept. I could go on and on about help ive given to black people. Its not the color of his skin that I and many many others dont like obummer. He is half white you know why do you libs keep playing the race card. As far as the party of stupid is concerned your party is doing more to keep the black people down by taking away their incentive to work by giving them all they need without trying to better them selves. As far as obummer care is concerned their are some good things in it but where is the money comming from?? How about giving everyone a new car? dont you get it, we just cant afford it. Is that the way you run your home or busness? spending money you dont have. Obummer the lier promest to fix the debt bush got us into. He lied and only made it worse. He lied again when he promest to bring our boys home only to move them to a deferant danger spot. I dont like the republems any more than i do the democrats. We neen to vote them all out. This country is not as great as it used to be. Others used look up to this country but now they are just laughing at us. Obummer has done that. When you want to bring your people up you rase the standards not lower them. You know there are many whites and blacks living in poverty We want to help them pull themselves up by their bootstraps not keep them depending on goverment handouts. As I said before rase the min. wage. Some states welfare is higher than the min wage. Fix it. Dont keep blameing the other party. I do belive the republem party is done because of the changing population with more and more depending on goverment hand outs. But look out it will come back to bite us all in the butts mark my words.

Lmarc Loc: Ojojona, Honduras

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Penny MG Loc: Fresno, Texas

No, I absolutely did NOT vote for Obama. And I consider all of America screwed by this guy. Unfortunately some have not woke up yet to realize they've been taken for a ride....so to speak. And some never will wake up. They'll fight for this guy to the bitter end.

Penny MG Loc: Fresno, Texas

This is true....they do let the "left" comment.

Penny MG Loc: Fresno, Texas

Much better than the first poem! :thumbup: