#Obamacare: 10 states where if you like your healthcare plan, you CANNOT keep it
The Daily Caller provides this handy dandy list of 10 states where Obamacare wipes out existing health insurance plans:
βIf 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,β Obama said.
But as Obamacareβs rollout approaches, we have learned this is not true. Here are the ten states where consumers may like their health care plans, but they wonβt 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 stateβs Obamacare exchange. Aetna, the countryβs largest insurer, left first in July and was closely followed by UnitedHealth. Anthem Blue Cross pulled out of Californiaβs Obamacare exchange for small businesses as well.
Fifty-four percent of Californians expect to lose their coverage, according to an August poll.
2) Missouri: Patients of the stateβs largest hospital system β which spans 13 hospitals including the St. Louis Childrenβs Hospital β 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 wonβt be able to see any doctors in the BJC HealthCare system.
3) Connecticut: Aetna, the third largest insurer in the nation, wonβt offer insurance on the Obamacare exchange in its own home state, where it was founded in 1850. The reason? βWe 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,β said Aetna spokesman Susan Millerick.
4) Maryland: 13,000 individuals covered by Aetna and its recently-purchased Coventry Health Care wonβt 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 wouldnβt allow them to charge premiums high enough to cover costs.
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As far as how Obamacare impacts North Carolinians in terms of costs? Click here for the bad news.