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- Cbs: Obamacare Hiking Costs For Employers, Forcing Them To Drop Coverage For Workers
From Fox News: Almost 80 million people with employer health plans could find their coverage canceled because they are not compliant with ObamaCare, several experts predicted. Their losses would be in addition to the millions who found their individual...
- But They Were Martyrs For The Greater Good: Nbc-obama Admin. Knew Millions Could Not Keep Their Health Insurance
NBC NewsPresident Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters for their...
- Some Unions Grow Wary Of Health Law They Backed, Want Government Subsidies To Pay Their Insurance Plans
From the Wall Street Journal: Labor unions enthusiastically backed the Obama administration's health-care overhaul when it was up for debate. Now that the law is rolling out, some are turning sour. Union leaders say many of the law's requirements...
- Obamakare And Family-insurance Plans
Much ado was made of Obama's warning health-insurance companies not to raise costs. And I personally know of several people who supported ObamaKare because they believed that ObamaKare would help them to keep their children on the family's health-insurance...
- Rand Study: Health Premiums Could Rise 17 Pct For Young Adults
Get AP's slant on this.. they just cannot bear to deal with it: Health insurance premiums for young adults are expected to rise about 17 percent once they're required to buy insurance four years from now. That estimate is from an analysis by...
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"as many as 52 million Americans could lose or have lost old insurance plans”
The McClatchy Newspaper group (not exactly a right wing center of political thought):
Even as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans, his administration knew that tens of millions of people actually could lose those their policies.“If you like your private health insurance plan, you can keep your plan. Period,” Obama said as he pitched the plan, the unqualified promise he made repeatedly.Yet advisers did say in 2010 that there were large caveats and that anyone whose insurance plan changed would lose the promised protection of being able to keep existing plans. And a report in 2010 said that as many as 69 percent of certain employer-based insurance plans would lose that protection, meaning as many as 41 million people could lose their plans even if they wanted to keep them and would be forced into other plans. Another 11 million who bought their own insurance also could lose their plans. Combined, as many as 52 million Americans could lose or have lost old insurance plans.Some or much of that loss of favored insurance is driven by normal year-to-year changes such as employers changing plans to save money. And many people could end up with better plans. But it is not what the president pledged.Obama insisted anew Thursday that the problem is limited to people who buy their own insurance. “We’re talking about 5 percent of the population who are in what’s called the individual market. They’re out there buying health insurance on their own,” he told NBC.But a closer examination finds that the number of people who have plans changing, or have already changed, could be between 34 million to 52 million. That’s because many employer-provided insurance plans also could change, not just individually purchased insurance plansAdministration officials decline to say how many employer-sponsored plans could change. But those numbers could be between 23 million to 41 million, based on a McClatchy analysis of estimates offered by the Department of Health and Human Services in June 2010.Obama aides did acknowledge around the time the law was enacted in 2010 that some people could lose their coverage if their plans changed after the law was passed.Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/11/07/207909/analysis-tens-of-millions-could.html#storylink=cpy
- Cbs: Obamacare Hiking Costs For Employers, Forcing Them To Drop Coverage For Workers
From Fox News: Almost 80 million people with employer health plans could find their coverage canceled because they are not compliant with ObamaCare, several experts predicted. Their losses would be in addition to the millions who found their individual...
- But They Were Martyrs For The Greater Good: Nbc-obama Admin. Knew Millions Could Not Keep Their Health Insurance
NBC NewsPresident Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters for their...
- Some Unions Grow Wary Of Health Law They Backed, Want Government Subsidies To Pay Their Insurance Plans
From the Wall Street Journal: Labor unions enthusiastically backed the Obama administration's health-care overhaul when it was up for debate. Now that the law is rolling out, some are turning sour. Union leaders say many of the law's requirements...
- Obamakare And Family-insurance Plans
Much ado was made of Obama's warning health-insurance companies not to raise costs. And I personally know of several people who supported ObamaKare because they believed that ObamaKare would help them to keep their children on the family's health-insurance...
- Rand Study: Health Premiums Could Rise 17 Pct For Young Adults
Get AP's slant on this.. they just cannot bear to deal with it: Health insurance premiums for young adults are expected to rise about 17 percent once they're required to buy insurance four years from now. That estimate is from an analysis by...