Obamacare ‘horror’ story turns out to be Obamacare success story [View all]
As we try to judge the short-term winners and losers from the Affordable Care Act, you can’t deny that it’s terrible to find out that your insurance plan has been cancelled. It happened all the time before Obamacare when it was a much worse fate, as there was a chance that no insurance might cover you again because of a pre-existing condition.
Still getting that cancellation letter can be disturbing. But what should be more even disturbing is discovering the insurance you were paying for is junk.
This week Diane Barrette was briefly the poster woman for the estimated 3% of America in the private insurance market who will lose their insurance and pay more to get coverage that meets the new minimum standards laid out by the ACA.
It turns out that she was paying $56 a month for a plan that covered — according to Yiddish experts — bubkis.
“She’s paying $650 a year to be uninsured,” Karen Pollitz, an insurance expert at the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, told Consumer Reports. “I have to assume that she never really had to make much of a claim under this policy. She would have lost the house she’s sitting in if something serious had happened. I don’t know if she knows that.”
Still CBS News and Fox News presented her as canary in the Obamacare coal mine, suggesting her fate was indicative of the horrors waiting for millions. But even Fox’s Greta Van Susteren sussed out that Barrette’s story was bunk, Mediaite‘s Tommy Christopher — who has been doing a heroic job of debunking Obamacare “horror” stories — points out. After her appearance on Van Susteren’s show, Barrette’s further Fox News’ appearances were cancelled.
More here: http://www.eclectablog.com/2013/11/obamacare-horror-story-turns-out-to-be-obamacare-success-story.html
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