Three major health insurers flee California’s ObamaCare exchange

◼ Remember the claim that “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan” under ObamaCare? - Ed Morrissey/HotAir

That was never actually true, as many who had low-cost catastrophic coverage married with HSAs will have to abandon them for more-costly comprehensive plans under the ACA’s coverage mandates. In California, it’s even less true as three insurers with millions of subscribers opt out of the state-run ObamaCare exchange...

The three companies that control 87% of the individual market now will soon control nearly 100% of it. Thanks to the terms of the exchanges, the kind of plans they can offer also have to be restricted to comply with ObamaCare mandates, and the price controls placed on the entry to the market will limit choices even more. One of the biggest problems in the pre-ObamaCare environment was a lack of choices thanks to barriers to interstate sales of insurance plans, and at least in California, the “solution” has made that problem even worse.

◼ Fox News Poll: 56 percent want to go back to pre-ObamaCare system - FOX

Majorities of American voters say their family will be worse off under the Affordable Care Act, and think it would be better to go back to the pre-ObamaCare health care system.

A Fox News poll released Wednesday finds that while 26 percent of voters say their health care situation will be better under the new law, twice as many -- 53 percent -- say it will be worse. Another 13 percent say it won’t make a difference....

Young voters and seniors are pessimistic about ObamaCare. Majorities of those under age 35 and those 65+ think things will be worse under the 2010 health care law.

That helps explains why a 56-percent majority wants to go back to the health care system that was in place in 2009. Some 34 percent would stick with the new law.

Three in ten Democrats would rather go back to the pre-ObamaCare system (30 percent). That view climbs to 55 percent among independents and 85 percent among Republicans.

The desire to go back to the 2009 system is widespread. Majorities of higher and lower income groups feel that way, as do men, women, voters with and without college degrees, and voters across all age groups.