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Obamacare: Policies of millions of insured Americans are being cancelled and replaced

December 7, 2013

ObamaCare was sold to the nation as a compassionate response to the approximately 47 million uninsured Americans. Yet, 30 million Americans will still not be insured even after the frenetic misrepresentation and bribery required to pass the bill and the botched rollout. Plus, the policies of millions of insured Americans are being cancelled and replaced with HHS “approved” policies that have higher premiums. Then, following the wipeout in the individual market, millions of Americans currently covered by employer-provided plans will have their policies cancelled because they are deemed inadequate and unacceptable under the ObamaCare regulations issued by HHS.
Health Journal reports, “The ACA will leave tens of millions uncovered. It will do little to alter racial disparities in coverage. It will also perpetuate disparities in access based on state of residence. The ACA, whatever its merits, will fall well short of its stated goal of providing affordable care for all Americans.”
The situation makes a travesty of the president’s oft-repeated promise that the “vast majority” of Americans will be able to keep their current health insurance coverage. Instead, the “vast majority” of Americans will be paying for mandated services they don’t need or want; millions will find they cannot access their doctors; and their satisfaction with their health care services will diminish drastically. Instead of “stronger, better, more secure” insurance coverage, there are reports of widespread security issues on the ObamaCare website and sweeping changes that are leaving policy-holders reeling.
Politicians have long worried about the financial sustainability of the Medicare/Medicaid programs, but, since employees pay into the programs in order to have benefits in their senior years, most politicians wouldn’t dare suggest making cuts to these programs. Drastic changes to Medicare and Medicaid are buried in ObamaCare; its provisions will bring an estimated one-in-five Americans into government-run medical welfare by increasing Medicaid by nearly 16 million individuals. Further, ObamaCare “strips more than 10 million extremely satisfied seniors of their Medicare Advantage.” Diane Furchtgott-Roth and other economists have carefully laid out how Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries will inevitably get lower standards of care under ObamaCare. These changes primarily (Who is waging a ‘War on Women’?) affect women, who make up 69 percent of Medicaid recipients and will be “disadvantaged” by being required to accept Medicaid rather than a refundable tax credit to purchase a private plan.