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In reply to the discussion: Two things, one fact, one opinion, about "Obamacare": [View all]meaculpa2011
(918 posts)18. I think that the ACA gave the insurers...
the perfect opportunity to cancel policies and substitute more expensive ones.
Something similar happened twenty years ago in NYS. State reform of healthcare insurance caused my premium to triple.
The legislature here was and is in the pocket of the insurance industry.
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has anyone heard the insurance industry complaining about the affordable care act? i haven't.
spanone
Dec 2013
#6
But the REASON the insurance companies cancelled policies and provided more expensive ones
Bandit
Dec 2013
#19
Your old policy didn't have to be canceled, it could've been amended in force and the premiums
uponit7771
Dec 2013
#30
Isn't Georgia going that route? Or trying too? Saying that if more states follow their lead, the
SammyWinstonJack
Dec 2013
#33