5 Things You CAN’T Keep Under Obamacare
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President Obama’s pledge that those who liked their health care plans could keep them wasn’t the only broken promise made when selling the health care law. The troubled rollout of Obamacare has produced a growing list of things that Americans like about their current health care experience that they may not be able to keep. Below are five examples.
1. Health insurance plans
Millions of Americans have received notices canceling their existing health plans because they did not meet the requirements of the health care law, which forced insurers to include one-size-fits-all benefit packages in all plans.
In theory, Obamacare was supposed to allow Americans to keep their plans so long as those plans weren’t acquired after March 2010, when the law’s requirements took effect. These were the “grandfathered” plans of which Obama spoke.
But on June 17, 2010, three months after Obamacare was signed into law, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a regulation detailing a number of modest alterations that would cause plans to lose their grandfathered status, thus subjecting them to the new rules.
This is what led to many of the more than 4 million cancellation letters Americans have received across the country.
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By Terence Grado.
As if the fumbled rollout of healthcare.gov wasn’t enough, it turns out that the site is also extremely susceptible to security breaches. At a recent congressional hearing over the health care law’s rollout, we found out that it could take a year to properly secure users’ personal information from potential theft.
David Kennedy, head of computer-security consulting company TrustedSec LLC, testified to Congress, saying, “There are actual, live vulnerabilities on the site now,” and that “when you develop a website, you develop it with security in mind. And it doesn’t appear to have happened this time.” In fact, the concern is so prevalent that when Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) asked Kennedy and two other cyber security experts if the site should be shut down until these issues were fixed, each replied “yes.”
These testimonies were provided just before the Department of Health and Human Services released a progress report highlighting the fixing of over 400 bugs and software improvements. However, the report never addressed any of the website’s security flaws.
Kennedy, who spoke with the Washington Free Beacon after the report was released, was still frustrated with their lack of focus on cyber security.
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