The @Obamacare Twitter account, run by Organizing For Action, wants us to believe that Obamacare banned rescission. This is a fairly common Talking Point on the Left:
Know what "rescission" is? You better. If Republicans kill #Obamacare, insurance companies will drop cancer patients: http://t.co/96xwbKoS78
— ??????? (@piratejeffrey) November 16, 2013
Obamacare ENDED the real health plan cancellation scandal.
The practice was known as “rescission.” Forget to… http://t.co/kjJrMLpgF5
— Liberals Are Cool ?️ (@LiberalsAreCool) November 14, 2013
Thanks to Obamacare, rescission — insurance companies dropping sick patients — has disappeared from our vocabulary http://t.co/gRg8sg66eN
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) September 21, 2013
Of course, guaranteed renewability of individually-purchased health insurance has been the law since 1997. Even before then, as John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis has noted, rescission was extremely rare. It was not “standard practice,” as Matthew Yglesias has falsely asserted. (Yglesias’ egregious error still has not been corrected, by the way.)
Meanwhile, rescission is still legal if an applicant for health insurance commits fraud or intentional misrepresentation of material fact.
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.@JonWalkerDC @firedoglake Exactly right. Obamacare was sold via several lies. Also a lie is that "rescission is prohibited". It is not.
— bmaz (@bmaz) October 29, 2013
Like Jim Treacher says,
The Affordable Care Act is neither affordable nor caring. It is, however, an act. It's all an act.
— China is lying (@jtLOL) November 21, 2013
Maybe rescission isn’t always a bad thing:
Obama’s lies on Obamacare go to the essence of the bargain with the American people and demand a rescission of that “contract."
— David Limbaugh (@DavidLimbaugh) November 3, 2013
As for the 17-year old girl with celiac disease whose insurance was canceled, she got it reinstated in January 2010. We’re sure the Left would like to give credit to the ACA, but that happened two months before Obama signed it into law.
Related:
‘Juicebox Lenin’: Matt Yglesias doesn’t think ‘people’s’ should get to keep their plan; Updated
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