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In reply to the discussion: Two things, one fact, one opinion, about "Obamacare": [View all]pnwmom
(109,025 posts)25. That isn't accurate. You aren't really paying more for less coverage.
You were about to have NO coverage. And your policy, even before it expired, very likely had lifetime limits (almost all did) which you could have blown through after one serious car accident.
The true comparison wouldn't be between your expiring COBRA and your new plan, but between your new plan and what your REAL alternative was -- 6 months with NO coverage followed by a high risk plan with high risk premiums and fewer benefits.
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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