It was thought by some that the insurance companies, since they worked on the legislation and got to keep their companies under the ACA, would be okay with the act. But they're showing exactly what they think of the ACA in these cancellation policies.
Many people, maybe a couple of millions, are getting notices that starts by saying that the company, due to the ACA, is cancelling their health insurance policy. Now, that is technically true, but in fact, those getting this letter, which it later says, is eligible to get another policy under the ACA. But wouldn't it have been better, and in my mind, much better company customer relations, if that letter said at the beginning that under the ACA, the policy they have no longer meets minimum standards, and then said they could come in or call to get more information and the new rates. In other words, in stating the truth in the worst possible light and only then telling them of new policies and the rates, which may be subsidized but they're never told that. Which company would you rather work with, one that stated the case and tried to help you get subsidies, or one that tries to scare you and puts fear into you? But just like their policies that really did nothing for people that bought them, the company is trying to scare people into bad decisions. Have you noticed that this is only happening with individuals and not companies? That's because companies were never offered these shoddy policies, because the insurance companies knew that to keep these companies as customers, they needed to offer them health policies that worked. Insurance companies never worried about that with individuals.
It was thought having another 30 million customers would help the insurance companies accept the ACA. Obviously, insurance companies don't like the ACA. That's the only way a person can look at the letters they're sending to individual policy holders.
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