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Comment Re:As an outsider. (Score 1) 559

in most cases mean significant cost increases, coverage shrinkage and possible deductible changes?

This is not the case. The plans that are being canceled do not meet the minimum coverage requirements. Their coverage is not shrinking, it's expanding. The companies can change them to meet the minimum requirement without significant cost increases, but they won't because that is not the most profitable thing to do and lets face it, insurance companies are not there to help, they are there to make as much money with as little exposure as possible. I would love for them to increase my coverage without notifying me, but they aren't going to increase coverage without taking their pound of flesh.

There is a pretty large false equivalency at work here. People aren't getting their gold star plans canceled to have them replaced with super expensive lead plans. They are having lead plans canceled and replaced with aluminum plans. No one is losing a great plan, people are only losing plans that were passable at best because the legal standard for passable finally changed for the better. Trying to frame it otherwise is disingenuous.

Comment Re:As an outsider. (Score 1) 559

So the insurance companies are cancelling people policies and we're blaming it on the law? Why don't they just upgrade the policies to meet the minimum requirements and not cancel the policies? To me that seems more like the insurance companies are being assholes more than anything. They have the option to do the right thing but are instead doing the most profitable thing. Why doesn't this vilify the insurance companies instead of the law since the insurance companies are the ones being dicks about it?

Comment Re:That is misleading (Score 4, Insightful) 218

Neither does histrionics and paranoia. The simple fact is that airport security has nothing to do with keeping you safe and has been shown to be highly ineffective at stopping any real attempt to circumvent them. It's security theater, not actual security. Terrorism and the war on terror isn't about saving lives or fighting bad guys, it's about suppressing freedom and oppressing the populace. If you think otherwise, you're ignorant to reality.

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