More than 3.5 million Americans have lost their individual health insurance plans as the Obamacare system nears full implementation, and an irreverent website and Twitter account is showing off their cancellation letters. But the project, mycancellation, has had a rocky start, with Twitter freezing its account at least three times since it launched last week. We were suspended yesterday late afternoon without a notice email, site co-creator Victoria Coley told The Daily Caller on Monday. Coley is communications director at the conservative Independent Womens Forum. Heather Higgins, the groups president, speculated that Twitters pushback was politically motivated. Since we havent abused any of Twitter’s (seemingly quite subjective) standards, Higgins wrote on Ricochet, either someone at Twitter objects to the real cost of these liked insurance I wanted to keep cancellations being given a human face, or there is an organized campaign by Obamacare-reality-deniers to spam Twitter with false claims of abuse. President Obama promised on at least 29 occasions, beginning in 2008, that Americans who liked their existing health insurance plan would be permitted to keep them. That claim has more recently been widely called a misstatement, a lie, or less than truthful, depending on which media outlet is evaluating it Letters shown at Mycancellation come from more than 80 different insurance companies. Most of them specify that the policy cancellations are due to the Affordable Care Act. Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487798/Youre-cancelled-New-website-collects-dozens-health-insurance-cancellation-letters.html#ixzz2js2e6hqu Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:11:01 +0000
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