Forget keeping your doctor. If you want any insurer choice, you may soon be out of luck.
Enrollment in the insurance exchanges for President Obama’s signature health-care law is at less than half the initial forecast, pushing several major insurance companies to stop offering health plans in certain markets because of significant financial losses.
As a result, the administration’s promise of a menu of health-plan choices has been replaced by a grim, though preliminary, forecast: Next year, more than 1 in 4 counties are at risk of having a single insurer on its exchange, said Cynthia Cox, who studies health reform for the Kaiser Family Foundation.
In February 2013, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that 24 million people would buy health coverage through the federally and state-operated online exchanges by this year. Just 11.1 million people were signed up as of late March.
The CBO predictions were lies. All the ObamaCare claims and promises were lies. It was meant to fail exactly like this in order to open the door for socialized medicine. And the insurance companies that went along with it got played for suckers.
The law requires every American to get health coverage or pay a penalty, but the penalty hasn’t been high enough to persuade many Americans to buy into the health plans. Even those who qualify for subsidized premiums sometimes balk at the high deductibles on some plans.
We must increase the penalties forcing people to buy our garbage insurance... for their own good. The beatings will continue until morale improves.