Last night, Huntsville NBC affiliate WAFF aired a segment (above) about a Huntsville woman who has seen her family’s health insurance premium double and deductible skyrocket under ObamaCare.
Mary Elizabeth Comulada explained her situation to WAFF’s Charles Molineaux.
“People aren’t going to be able to afford this,” Comulada said bluntly.
Comulada took her situation to BCBS and was told the hikes were a direct result of the ObamaCare provision that requires insurers to accept anyone who seeks to buy insurance through them, regardless of the risk.
“Well, then how can my premium double per month?” Comulada asked. “How can our deductibles go up on every single family member and yet you’re providing me the same plan? They said, ‘Well, the answer is we now can’t turn anybody down.'”
Molineaux went to BCBS for a response to Comulada’s problem, asking if she could receive any relief from the so-called “fix” President Barack Obama unveiled earlier this month that would allow providers to continue offering plans to customers in spite of the plans not meeting all the ObamaCare requirements.
“A statement from Blue Cross Blue Shield says it’s been calculating its plans to follow the Affordable Care Act for three and a half years,” Molineaux said. “At this point even ‘the temporary reinstatement’ of the policies banned by the law could ‘destabilize the state’s insurance market’ and ‘create significant legal and financial risks to our policyholders, the state and our company.’”
Comulada even used the president’s own words, “If you like you plan, you can keep your plan,” in her conversation with BCBS. That didn’t get her anywhere, either.
“I asked about that,” Comulada said. “And they said it did not meet the new Affordable Care Act guidelines.”
Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Haleyville, said the damage from ObamaCare has already been done.
“The reason that the insurance companies cannot offer the same plans for the same price is that ObamaCare changed the cost equation,” Aderholt said in a statement. “Despite whatever the President wants to say, the actual numbers don’t add up.”
(h/t RNC Research)
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