Twitter Suspends Account That Posts Pics of People Complaining About Health Care (illegal, premium)
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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.com, 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.
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Letters shown at Mycancellation.com come from more than 80 different insurance companies. Most of them specify that the policy cancellations are due to the Affordable Care Act.
Many include massive rate increases for customers who want to renew with new policies that comply with the law's minimum standards.
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One shows a policyholder forced to choose new coverage by December 15 in order to be insured on January 1. His monthly premium spiked to $1,198.45 per month, a 315 per cent increase.
Another received a letter saying his plan would no longer be offered 'due to the Affordable Care Act.' He and his wife are expecting a baby on December 30.
In order to get a new plan with the same monthly premium, he will have to accept an annual deductible of $10,000 instead of the $3,000 level he has now.
'If our child is born just two days later,' he writes, 'our costs will go up $7,000 to have our child for no other reason than the "Affordable Care Act."'
Real life issues here.
And as I will continue to say... this is the plan toward single payer. Nuke insurance companies so that the government option is the only one standing.
If you don't want single payer - private insurance companies somehow must be maintained as an option. They can not go out of business. Gotta figure out something.
I didn't say anything anti-Twitter. I quoted what they did.
Don't know why you are even bringing up the 1st amendment...
Why bring up what Twitter did if you weren't trying to bring light to the fact that they are stifling free speech? If you were just trying to point out that people are receiving cancellation notices, well, this would be a duplicate thread then. If the latter is your point I would choose a different example to prove your point though because the people in NY are actually seeing premiums decrease, most of them anyway.
Why bring up what Twitter did if you weren't trying to bring light to the fact that they are stifling free speech?
Because people like me and others want to know what Twitter supports. And they obviously don't support freedom. Whether it is freedom of different opinions on their website, or the freedom to not buy health insurance.
Just because someone complains that twitter took down the page, does not mean they think it should be "illegal" for them to do so. They are just doing what the free market allows, to boycott companies who don't share your views.
Twitter is free to post what they please, and obviously they do. To bad in this case they will only post the positive, and not what is happening to so many current health care policy holders. The truth of their premiums skyrocketing, and not getting the quality of health care they already have.
As usual if it has to do with any negative assoicated with Obama, down it comes. Private company or not don't the people have a right to see the true facts associated with this bill. And how so many americans that have decent health insurance are being impacted.
So very crystal clear, that many online sites only seem to post what is in their opinion positive and not the negative. To be fair, we need to see who truly is honestly happy, and how many lives have been interupted and displaced by this new health care bill. That will bring more worry then anything good.
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