ObamaCARE strikes again! 76,000 people will lose their current health care coverage with CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield in Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC. You think the so called ObamaCARE pre-existing conditions coverage of ObamaCARE is wonderful? These 76,000 people are being kicked off their currently health plans by CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield because the law was written so narrowly that insurance companies like CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield can leave out the coverage in many of their plans. I guess this is what Nancy Pelosi meant when she said, ‘we have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it.’
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is being forced to cancel plans that currently cover 76,000 individuals in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., due to changes made by President Obama’s health care law, the company told the Washington Examiner today.
That represents more than 40 percent of the 177,000 individuals covered by CareFirst in those states.
Though Obama famously promised that those who liked their health care coverage could keep it under his program, in reality, the health care law imposes a raft of new regulations on insurance policies starting Jan. 1 that are forcing insurers across the country to terminate existing plans.
In theory, rules were supposed to allow pre-existing plans to be “grandfathered in,” but they were written so narrowly that they leave out many plans.
“Of the 177,000 individuals under age 65 who are covered by CareFirst, about 76,000 of them are in a non-grandfathered plan — a plan that will not comply with the guidelines imposed by the Affordable Care Act at their time of renewal this year or next,” CareFirst said in an email in response to an inquiry by the Examiner.