I supported the ACA, but my policy that I like is being cancelled because of it. [View all]

[DanM]

I believed in the ACA, and President Obama's (whom I voted for) promise that it wouldn't take away my policy if I liked it. I still do believe in and support the ACA.

But I got a cancellation notice from my insurance provider, briefly mentioning that due to ACA, and through no business reason of their own, they could not continue the policy. I like my policy and want to keep it, so I called my insurance provider. I got forwarded from the usual first-line rep to a fairly well-informed and intelligent business retention manager. I had quite a lengthy conversation with her. She answered all my questions, many of which were meant to vet if there were reasons other than ACA that the company was cancelling me. She patiently went through a lot of detail with me, and my conclusion is that the existence of the ACA, and only that, doomed my policy.

The price I'm seeing on the government healthcare website for comparable coverage I had is three times what I was paying (after the subsidies I'll receive). I am not rich! I'm really not even middle-class, to speak honestly.

I don't think of myself as "poor", I did get some subsidies, but THREE TIMES what I was paying? Intellectually, I still support the ACA, but emotionally I'm a wreck. I don't know how I'll pay for coverage I was getting before, and I'm extremely worried mostly for my children, not really for myself.