30 October, 2013

If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep It. Sort Of -- Daily Intelligencer

If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep It. Sort Of -- Daily Intelligencer: When it was originally contemplated, several years away from implementation, the process of imposing regulations on the individual-health-insurance market did not feel like taking people’s health insurance away from them. In the current moment, with cancellation notices going out and alternatives not yet available, it feels exactly like that. Which is to say, a promise that felt like a mere oversimplification at the time, and may eventually feel like one in retrospect, currently feels like a lie.