Today? "You can KEEP your insurance, PERIOD." Tomorrow? "You can KEEP your DOCTOR, PERIOD."

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48. It feels like there's a coordinated effort to fuck the thing up...

Hubby and I are covered by insurance through his employer. They entered the new "corporate exchange" (administered by AON-Hewitt - a huge HR/Benefits consulting firm) for 2014, and our plan options were basically the same as what you find on the government exchange. We selected the same coverage that we've had for the last few years, with the same insurer, at the same rate. I looked up the doctors we see, and found that they were all on the list as approved providers. Yesterday, I heard on the radio that United Healthcare, our insurer for the past six years, was dropping tens of thousands of doctors from their network, effective January 1st. So how are we supposed to know whether the doctors we see are really part of the network, as their documentation said when we completed the sign-up, or will be booted off in six weeks? It seems like you can't even make a decision with the "available facts" because the available facts keep changing.

I'm convinced that insurers are actively looking for every loophole they can find and exploit to make ACA fail, and more importantly, to ensure that the President and the Democrats are blamed for it.