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SoCalDem

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5. Their cancellation letter should have been required to say:

Reply to starroute (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 4, 2013, 10:07 AM

Nov 2013

Your policy is no longer being offered, because it qualifies as a "junk policy", covering little and costing you more than the ACA marketplace policies.

ACA requires FREE coverage for:

(and then the freebies listed here)

We now have to cover people with pre-exixting conditions, and MUST pay OUT at least XX% of your premiums paid on ACTUAL healthcare.

The inexpensive coverage you have been paying for is inadequate enough to now be deemed illegal.

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Wow! Can we call them what they are? brush Nov 2013 #1

In some cases they do have to cancel them -- but they're still crooks starroute Nov 2013 #2

You're right about the "junk" policies . . . brush Nov 2013 #4

Their cancellation letter should have been required to say: SoCalDem Nov 2013 #5

I've been calling them the medical mafia for years tavalon Nov 2013 #18

This is like any other sort of service IronLionZion Nov 2013 #3

You're right, and unfortunately, elleng Nov 2013 #8

Its a shame that our side is so bad at PR IronLionZion Nov 2013 #10

of the 6 corporations plcdude Nov 2013 #19

grass roots IronLionZion Nov 2013 #22

Just think how they are going to feel when .... ReRe Nov 2013 #6

thieves basically flamingdem Nov 2013 #7

i love it when hockeynut57 Nov 2013 #9

It's their job to take your money and not pay it out. What else would you expect? L0oniX Nov 2013 #11

Arm Yourself Stainless Nov 2013 #12

Cool link, bro. DanM Nov 2013 #13

thank you for your defense of private insurance corporations nt geek tragedy Nov 2013 #16

Huh? n/t DanM Nov 2013 #21

Too bad the mainstream media has yet to figure this out. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2013 #14

It's a 'protection racket.' freshwest Nov 2013 #15

Sorry for this bit of snark, but I hate liars Nov 2013 #17

K and R Mosby Nov 2013 #20

Probable sample of a Canadian Health Insurance Policy: Zorra Nov 2013 #23

I The government should be all over these crooks. B Calm Nov 2013 #24