Across North Carolina, thousands of people have been shocked in recent weeks to find out their health insurance plans will be canceled at the end of the year – and premiums for comparable coverage could increase sharply.
One of them is George Schwab of Charlotte, who pays $228 a month for his family’s $10,000 deductible plan from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina... In a Sept. 23 letter, Blue Cross notified him that his current plan doesn’t meet benefit requirements outlined in the Affordable Care Act and suggested a comparable plan for $1,208 a month – $980 more than he now pays.
...“The President told the American people numerous times that… ‘If you like your coverage, you can keep it,’” Schwab said. “How can we keep it if it has been eliminated? How can we keep it if the premium has been increased 430 percent in one year?”
...[Chris] Blount[, a Blue Cross agent,] agreed with Schwab that the president shouldn’t have made promises he couldn’t keep... “That’s one thing that really bothers me about all of this,” Blount said. “He didn’t just say it once. He said it a lot.”
...Blue Cross spokesman Lew Borman said Friday that large premium increases will affect about one-third of the approximately 400,000 North Carolina customers who buy Blue Cross insurance in the individual market. Some of their policies were canceled because they didn’t meet the new federal standards, he said.
...Michael Hood, 46, who lives near Winston-Salem, is another of the Blue Cross customers who is suffering sticker shock after receiving a recent renewal letter... He and his wife, who is expecting their third child, now pay $324 per month for a plan with a $10,000 family deductible. The comparable plan suggested by Blue Cross for next year would cost $895.27 per month with an $11,000 family deductible. Their annual payment would rise from $14,000 to $24,000.
...“The president told us Obamacare would make health insurance affordable and reduce costs. It is now impossible for our family to afford private health insurance.”
Charles C. W. Cooke summarizes the litany of lies the President and his sycophants told Americans to jam Obamacare through Congress.
• “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.”
Lies. All lies.
Lies. All lies.
• "If you already have health insurance, the only thing that will change for you under this plan is the amount of money you will spend on premiums. That will be less.”
Lies. All lies.
• "I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade."
Lies. All lies.
• "Health care reform will cut the cost of a typical family's premium by up to $2,500 a year."
Lies. All lies.
As Scott Johnson astutely observes, "If only we had a free press, Obamacare would be a bloody, unrelenting scandal, like Abu Ghraib, or Watergate. As it is, it is only business as usual for liberals and liberalism.."
foolish nobama voters deserve what they is getting .. now vote out all the congress rinos and dump this soviet union health care law the demonrats passed
ReplyDeleteThis was all obvious to somebody who spent three seconds thinking about it. The only people who bought this line of crap were the same people who wet themselves at the thought of a non-white President.
ReplyDeleteI have no problem with stupid people getting what they deserve. What I have a problem with is the stupid people voting away *my* freedom to choose.
Too many "useful idiots" in the voter pool.
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