If we heard it once, we heard it a million times: “If you like your health plan, you can keep it.”
Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign and during the subsequent debate about the health reform bill, President Obama repeatedly said that the new change to the health care system wouldn't affect people's current policies; instead, they could keep their 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 new legislation contains a grandfathering provision, which ensures that Americans can keep their policy. [See related: Agencies set rules on grandfathered health plans] So the administration remained true to its word, but after reading the guidelines released by the Department of Health and Human Services in mid-June, a lot of people are crying foul.
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