“For many, their introduction to the Affordable Care Act has been negative: A broken website, and now cancellation notices from insurance companies, followed by sticker shock over higher prices for the new plans,” says a CBS reporter. “It’s directly at odds from repeated assurances from the president.”
Obama is quoted as saying, “If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you.”
“But people across the country are finding out they’re losing their existing insurance plans under Obamacare,” says the reporter. “In Florida, at least 300,000 people are losing coverage.”
“When I got this bill, I was outraged,” CBS quotes a 56-year-old Florida resident who got dropped from her health care plan.
Her new plan will be 10 times higher than what she’s paying now, jumping from $54 a month to $591.
