So here is how the math
works on Obamacare; I give you $3.00, and you give me $2.00. Now I am short
$1.00, but you tell what a good guy you are because you helped me gain $2.00.
So scratch your head
because the above analogy makes no sense. That’s okay! Obamacare makes no
sense, so like the Obamacare administration and the HHS I can say (and write)
whatever I please. That’s how it’s done now!
Ten states where
Obamacare wipes out existing health care plans
7:35 PM 09/28/2013
Sarah Hurtubise
President
Barack Obama famously promised, “If you like your health care plan, you can
keep your health care plan.” He later got even more specific.
“If
you are among the hundreds of millions of Americans who already have health
insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in
this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the
doctor you have,” Obama said.
But
as Obamacare’s rollout approaches, we have learned this is not true. Here are
the ten states where consumers may like their health care plans, but they won’t
be able to keep them.
1) California:
58,000 will lose their plans under Obamacare. The first bomb dropped in
California with a mass exodus from the most populated state’s Obamacare
exchange. Aetna, the country’s third largest insurer, left first in July and
was closely followed by UnitedHealth. Anthem Blue Cross pulled out of California’s Obamacare exchange for small
businesses as well.
2) Missouri:
Patients of the state’s largest hospital system — which spans 13 hospitals
including the St. Louis Children’s Hospital — will not be covered by the largest insurer on Obamacare exchanges,
Anthem BlueCross BlueShield. Anthem covers 79,000 patients in Missouri who may
seek subsidies on Obamacare exchanges, but won’t be able to see any doctors in
the BJC HealthCare system.
3) Connecticut: Aetna, the third largest insurer in the nation, won’t offer insurance on the Obamacare exchange in its own home
state, where it was founded in 1850. The reason? “We believe the modification
to the rates filed by Aetna will not allow us to collect enough premiums to
cover the cost of the plans and meet the service expectations of our
customers,” said Aetna spokesman Susan Millerick.
4) Maryland:
13,000 individuals covered by Aetna and its recently-purchased
Coventry Health Care won’t be able to keep their insurance plans if they want
Obamacare subsidies on the exchanges. Aetna and Coventry canceled plans to offer
insurance in the exchange when state officials wouldn’t allow them to charge
premiums high enough to cover costs.
5) South Carolina: 28,000 people were insured by Medical Mutual of Ohio, SC’s
second-largest insurance company, until it decided to leave the state entirely
in July due to Obamacare’s “vast and quite complex” new regulations. Company
spokesman Ed Byers said Medical Mutual’s patients would be switched over to
United Healthcare plans instead.
6) New York:
Aetna pulled out of New York’s exchange in late August in an
effort to keep their plans “financially viable,” said Aetna spokeswoman Cynthia
Michener.
7) New Jersey:
1.1 million Aetna customers are at risk in New Jersey, where the leading insurer also won’t be a part
of the exchange. Just 2,600 patients purchase individual plans with the
company, but any looking to take advantage of subsidies on the exchange for
unaffordable employer-based insurance won’t be able to do with Aetna.
8) Iowa: Wellmark Blue Cross and
Blue Shield, Iowa’s largest health insurer, decided not to offer plans in the Obamacare exchange. It sells 86
percent of Iowa’s individual health insurance plans.
9) Wisconsin:
Two of the three largest insurers in the state won’t offer plans on the exchange. United Healthcare and Humana
patients will have to get a new health insurer to buy insurance on Obamacare
exchanges.
10) Georgia:
Just five insurers are participating in Georgia’s Obamacare exchange. Medical
Mutual of Ohio left Georgia and Indiana as well as South Carolina,
due to Obamacare regulations. Aetna, along with Coventry, also decided against
participating in the George health
exchange.
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