If we heard it once, we heard it a million times: “If you likeyour health plan, you can keep it.”
Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign and during thesubsequent debate about the health reform bill, President Obamarepeatedly said that the new change to the health care systemwouldn't affect people's current policies; instead, they could keeptheir plan and keep their doctors.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as we all know,was signed into law on March 23. And, as promised, the newlegislation contains a grandfathering provision, which ensures thatAmericans can keep their policy. [See related:Agencies set rules on grandfathered health plans] So theadministration remained true to its word, but after reading theguidelines released by the Department of Health and Human Servicesin mid-June, a lot of people are crying foul.
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