Time:
They’re dropping like flies.
The health-insurance giant Aetna has announced it will exit 11 of the 15 health-insurance exchanges where it sells Obamacare plans. Aetna’s announcement comes on the heels of news that UnitedHealthcare,Humana, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, and Texas’ Scott and White Health Plan, and 70% of Obamacare’s failed Co-Ops, and other insurers will exit many or all of the exchanges for which they had previously shown such enthusiasm.
The ongoing and nationwide exodus of insurers is just the latest piece of evidence that Obamacare is a failed law built on false promises.
Obamacare’s only real selling point was that it supposedly guarantees access to care for people with expensive illnesses. President Obama repeatedly boasted that under Obamacare, it will be illegal for insurance companies to deny coverage to the sick because “all discrimination against pre-existing conditions will be prohibited.”
On the contrary, Obamacare itself is denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions. Just ask the residents of Pinal County, Arizona, where Obamacare has driven every carrier out of the exchange, and may yet destroy the individual market outside the exchange.
As it turns out, Obamacare does not prevent insurance companies from denying you coverage, dropping your coverage, or watering down your coverage. It does not prevent insurers from limiting your coverage. It does not prevent discrimination against the sick. All of these things happened in Pinal County—and not in spite of Obamacare, but because of it. Obamacare made covering everybody in the exchange prohibitively expensive, so insurers stopped covering anybody.
If you’re a Pinal County resident who had a pre-Obamacare plan that covered your (now-preexisting) medical condition, Obamacare took away your coverage and the long-term protection it provided. It has left you either with far more expensive coverage, or no coverage at all.
President Obama also promised Obamacare would give everyone “the same kind of choice of private health insurance that members of Congress get for themselves.” Members of Congress can choose from four carriers in D.C.’s small business Exchange. (Who knew Congress is a small business?)
What about us little people? In 2017, one third of counties and one in six enrollees will have only one carrier in their Exchange. As it was before Obamacare, few Americans will have as many health-insurance choices as Congress.
President Obama repeatedly assured Americans: “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.” This year’s ongoing insurer exodus has so far added another 2 million Americans to the number that Obamacare has thrown out of their health plans.
In the same breath, Obama promised: “We will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period.” Can you guess what one of the worst parts of all those plan cancellations is? They often force patients to switch doctors and hospitals mid-treatment.
In 2010, Obama found one insurer who raised premiums by an “unacceptable” 39%. Obamacare would make such increases a thing of the past, he promised.
Are you sitting down? He hasn’t kept that promise, either.
daily open me email and have a notice “our records show you have no insurance. if you not enroll in ACA now you will be investigated by the irs and severe fines placed against you”
the terrorist pres is stealing from Medicare to pay for idiot care, as something is new. but the traitor and crook is going to fix it by diverting federal funds, our tax dollars to pay for it
Don’t be fooled by leftist ragsheets like Time and the NYT suddenly discovering what a monumental failure obamacare is. This is merely the laying of groundwork for the inevitable leftist push for national socialist takeover of medical care.
Every single result of obamacare bemoaned in the Time article was warned about by obamacare critics before the democrat sludge was crammed down the national throat in a party-line vote when Reid and Pelosi controlled congress.
Keep reminding people of this fact, in as full throated a manner possible, when the left begins clamoring for the national socialist takeover of medicine. No one with a single functioning brain cell would ever give the despicable cronies who were so cataclysmically wrong about the effect of obamacare another chance to further screw up medicine.
@Pete: obamacare was meant to fail. The plans were/are to make it a one payer system to be controlled by the government. Read saul alinsky’s eight radical rules to a socialist state. Rule number one which is touted as the most important is to gain control of the healthcare system and you gain control of the people. BTW alinsky was hil-liary’s personal mentor ( along with margaret sanger)
@Enchanted:
Yes, and Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.
Now imagine if a conservative politician had publicly declared they viewed as a mentor an author who dedicated his book to the anthropogenic embodiment of absolute evil.