With “Had” being the key word in that phrase
ObamaCare Found To Restrict Where You Live And Travel
The American Thinker’s Stella Paul has exposed the virtually unnoticed fact that within the ObamaCare exchanges so many Americans are being forced into, “most plans only provide local medical coverage.”
Paul warns this will have “a profound impact on the real-estate market, particularly the second home sector, and on the travel business.” She interviewed one Connecticut retiree whose health required having a winter home in South Carolina. Her $450-per-month, $2,500 deductible, no co-pay Blue Cross policy that had worked well in both states was suddenly canceled.
The new policy she was offered under ObamaCare was twice as expensive, with a deductible costing $1,000 more, and no out-of-network coverage.
Having had a surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, out-of-network coverage was a must. And she found it. “It’s $900 a month,” she told Paul, “with a $7,000 deductible and a co-pay on everything. Basically, it’s catastrophic insurance, and I’ll be paying my South Carolina doctors out of pocket.”
A prominent New York insurance broker pointed out that most of the policies offered on the ObamaCare exchanges are not national networks, so “if you need routine medical services, they will not be covered when you leave your local area,” as they were before.
Travel health insurance, unfortunately, only covers emergencies. So, the broker told Paul, “a large portion of the population will have their insurance as a consideration for their mobility, which they never had before.”
Imagine having to take all this into account in making decisions about where in America you want to live.
Yeah, sure, you can still go where you like, but you had better talk to your insurance company before you take off for that skiing trip in Colorado.
There are a lot of “snowbirds” like my parents that live north most of the year, then move south for the winter. A major industry across the nation is tourism – this is going to really mess with that business, and when we start seeing news stories, which are also horror stories, about people running into this problem starting come spring break (because, you know, all those young invincibles might possibly go somewhere and maybe get hurt), it’s going to be interesting to watch it’s effect on the summer travel season.
“Imagine having to take all this into account in making decisions about where in America you want to live.”
Yeah as in… lets not live in America any more.