http://news.msn.com/us/is-it-too-lat...care-plan-back
what an utter disaster. it's only getting worse, not better, with this aca mess that they've had four years to implement.
i hope no one with a soon to be cancelled plan is celebrating that they might be able to keep it. this stuff isn't exactly a light switch one can turn off and then back on.
let me tell you, it would take you less time to find a new plan than it will take to find out if you can keep your current one.
and every change made to the aca that takes away anything mandated only weakens the law and makes it that much harder for insurers to perform everything the government is asking of them. this house of cards is built upon a basic premise of everyone capable of buying to do so, and pay for every mandated bit of coverage (unlike these much lower cost plans now) but not all of those purchasing need or will use all these mandated items. but they'll pay for it, thus keeping the ship afloat.
again, as long as we deem healthcare a for profit business, you will run into schemes like this. it's ridiculous.
instead, they should have mandated catastrophic care, so that those emergencies would be covered, and allowed people to buy supplements. we should have instituted one hundred percent medicare, for everyone. it would have been a way to provide everyone with medical coverage, which is what they're trying to do now, without all the various and sundry rules, regs, exchanges, subsidies, info sharing, etc, etc-all while the insurers try to also keep shareholders happy and make some money.