A sad tale: "Obama Lied. My Third Health Plan Just Died."

The truth. The "Affordable Care Act" was so misbegotten it never had a chance. As I said over and over - just type "Obamacare" in the search box above and scroll through the titles of my postings. And I have clients who had their insurance cancelled.

This is Michelle Malkin - read it and it gives an inkling to why an outsider like Trump could be the next President.

Once was a shock. Twice was an outrage. Thrice is a nightmare that won’t end.

Every time we receive a ancellation letter, I recall President Obama’s big lie: “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.”

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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 (as opposed to group insurance through a company or third party). Our most recent plan features a $6,000 deductible with a $1,000 monthly premium. It’s nosebleed expensive, but provides us access to specialists not curtailed by bureaucratic gatekeepers. This has been important for us because several members of my family have required specialized care for chronic illnesses.

Once again, however, I’ll soon be talking about our plan in the past tense. Choices for families like mine have evaporated in the era of Obamacare. In Colorado, UnitedHealthCare and Humana will cease selling individual plans next year. Rocky Mountain Health Plans is pulling out of the individual market in all but one county. Nearly 100,000 of my fellow Coloradans will be forced to find new insurance alternatives as open enrollment approaches on Nov. 1, according to the Denver Business Journal. As Anthem abandons PPOs, the cost of remaining individual market plans will soar an average of 20 percent.

It’s a nationwide implosion.

Individual market customers on the Obamacare exchange in Oklahoma learned last week that they’ll face average rate hikes of a whopping 76 percent. Last month, Maryland approved double-digit rate hikes for all individual market plans. In August, Tennessee approved rate increases of between 44 and 62 percent for three insurers still carrying individual market plans. And in Minnesota, where the individual market is on the brink of collapse, state officials recently agreed to raise rates an average of 60 percent next year — affecting an estimated 250,000 people both on and off the Obamacare exchanges.

The private individual insurance market is in peril. The government-run exchanges are flailing. And the vaunted nonprofit Obamacare co-ops that were supposed to dramatically lower costs have bombed despite billions in taxpayer subsidies.

 

 

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This is reason # 7249177388 to vote for Trump.

The dirty little secret is that the authors of ObamaCare designed it to fail miserably just like it has. They did this so that they could then basically force everyone (at the point of a gun) into the one payer, government, socialist sysem which will be even more nightmarish, if you can believe it, than the original Obamacare system.

GO 'THE DONALD' GO ! ! !