Obama’s Broken Promise, State by State
November 8, 2013
Last night, President Obama apologized to the millions of Americans who have lost their health care coverage despite his promise that it wouldn’t happen.
Is President Obama going to support House Republicans’ Keep Your Health Plan Act, and prove to millions of Americans that he truly is sorry? Or was his apology just empty rhetoric designed to avoid a political storm while ObamaCare continues to wreak havoc across the country?
Courtesy of Katie Boyd in the Speaker’s office, check out the below list of 39 states where Americans have become the victims of ObamaCare.
- ALABAMA: “Insurers notifying customers of changes” (Times Daily, 10/22/13)
- ALASKA: “Alaskans get health policy cancellation notices” (Associated Press, 11/3/13)
- ARKANSAS: “Insurance cancellations add to controversy over health care law” (Arkansas News, 11/3/13)
- CALIFORNIA: “Thousands told health policies will end” (San Diego Union-Tribune, 10/22/13)
- COLORADO: “Nearly 250,000 Colorado health policies canceled, many from Obamacare” (Denver Post, 11/6/13)
- CONNECTICUT: “For thousands of Connecticut residents, Obamacare means changing insurance plans” (The CT Mirror, 10/4/13)
- DELAWARE: “For some, health insurance policies are vanishing” (The News Journal, 10/31/13)
- FLORIDA: “Florida Blue to cancel 300,000 policies over Obamacare” (The St. Augustine Record, 10/23/13)
- GEORGIA: “Georgia Insurance commissions says 400,000 residents to pay more for health insurance” (WSB-TV, 10/31/13)
- IDAHO: “Nearly 40,000 Idahoans covered by state’s largest insurers must pick new plans” (Idaho Statesman, 10/31/13)
- ILLINOIS: “Individually Insured Slammed with Sticker Shock” (WAND-TV News, 10/29/13)
- INDIANA: “Losing Health Coverage Because Of Obamacare” (NBC33 News, 11/1/13)
- IOWA: “Premiums could rise for many young adults” (Des Moines Register, 11/2/13)
- KANSAS: “9,450 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas policyholders losing their health plan” (Wichita Business Journal, 10/31/13)
- KENTUCKY: “About 280,000 Kentuckians losing current coverage” (Associated Press, 11/2/13)
- LOUISIANA: “80,000 Louisianians’ health insurance policies will be canceled under Affordable Care Act” (The Times-Picayune, 11/4/13)
- MARYLAND: “Maryland health insurance carriers to drop 73K members” (Associated Press, 11/4/13)
- MICHIGAN: “146,000 Michiganders – at least – face loss of cheaper policies under new health care reform rules” (Detroit Free Press, 10/14/13)
- MINNESOTA: “At least 140,000 Minnesotans will lose current health policies” (Star Tribune, 10/30/13)
- MISSOURI: “Wentzville Family Loses Health Insurance, Blames Obamacare” (KSDK, 10/21/13)
- MONTANA: “20,000 Montanans’ health insurance ‘discontinued’ by ‘Obamacare’” (Missoulian, 10/31/13)
- NEBRASKA: “Obamacare Exchanges Open For Business, Some Paying Much Higher Premiums” (KPTM, 10/1/13)
- NEVADA: “Health Insurance Rates Could Go Up for Thousands” (8 News NOW, 10/29/13)
- NEW HAMPSHIRE: “Anthem: 22,000 were told their health insurance would be cancelled in NH” (Union Leader, 11/5/13)
- NEW JERSEY: “Obamacare causes insurance companies to scrap some plans, create new ones” (The Star-Ledger, 10/6/13)
- NEW MEXICO: “Health care plans ending for 26K New Mexicans” (Associated Press, 11/2/13)
- NEW YORK: “ObamaCare KO’s 100,000 policies in NY” (New York Post, 11/1/13)
- NORTH CAROLINA: “Insurance premium increases shock Charlotte consumers” (Charlotte Observer, 10/6/13)
- NORTH DAKOTA: “Plan changes: At least 2,500 N.D. health plans canceled because of new rules” (The Jamestown Sun, 11/4/13)
- OHIO: “Canceled health insurance plans surprise some” (Mansfield News-Journal, 11/6/13)
- OREGON: “150,000 in Ore. to face health plan cancellations” (Associated Press, 10/30/13)
- PENNSYLVANIA: “Under Obamacare, some Pennsylvanians are seeing their health insurance canceled” (The Morning Call, 10/25/13)
- SOUTH CAROLINA: “Many insured SC residents must buy new health plan” (Associated Press, 10/27/13)
- TENNESSEE: “Thousands to lose insurance as Tennessee shuts down programs” (The Tennessean, 9/29/13)
- TEXAS: “New insurance fees arriving in East Texas mailboxes” (KLTV, 10/31/13)
- VIRGINIA: “Some health plans for Virginians being canceled” (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 11/7/13)
- WASHINGTON: “Canceled health insurance plans add to angst of change” (Seattle Times, 11/2/13)
- WISCONSIN: “Some consumers getting hit with cancellation notices” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 11/2/13)
- WYOMING: “Wyoming Faces Over 2,500 Insurance Cancellations” (Associated Press, 11/1/13)