Alternate headline: “Christmas coming early for identity thieves.”
If you like your plan RT @charlescwcooke: "Health plans are sending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters." http://t.co/4mUdt5YAxZ
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) October 20, 2013
Here are just 580,000 anecdotes of people having their coverage dropped. http://t.co/kaJC6TO4Ku
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) October 20, 2013
◼ Thousands get health insurance cancellation notices - NBC News
...Florida Blue, for example, is terminating about 300,000 policies, about 80 percent of its individual policies in the state. Kaiser Permanente in California has sent notices to 160,000 people – about half of its individual business in the state. Insurer Highmark in Pittsburgh is dropping about 20 percent of its individual market customers, while Independence Blue Cross, the major insurer in Philadelphia, is dropping about 45 percent....
◼ Jeanine Pirro: You And I Would Be Fired For Simple Sebelius’ Incompetence (Video) - Nice Deb
Pirro, a former prosecutor ObamaCare, expressed shock and dismay at the fact that the very navigators who are trusted to handle Social Security numbers, DOB, and personal identifiable information, don’t go through basic background or fingerprint checks.
“But it gets better”, she continued. “If those navigators have a prior conviction, it won’t disqualify them, anyway. An outstanding warrant? – no problem. In the midst of a bankruptcy? No problem……Has anyone in Washington every heard of identity theft?”
And she blasted the administration for the failure of the website launch. “They had three years to prepare and can’t even get the website off the ground,” she said. ”‘Simple Sebelius’ doesn’t know how many people have signed up, but she knows it’s getting better.”