Obamacare: Changing Plans

Found this in my inbox this week:

UC has changed the menu of the health care plans that will be offered in 2014. Most notably, the three currently available PPO plans (Anthem Blue Cross PPO, Anthem Plus, and Anthem Lumenos) are being discontinued. They are replaced by Blue Shield Health Savings Plan and UC Care.

The Washington Post provided this report of the speech the President gave on Wednesday in Boston, where I’m currently on leave from UC San Diego:

if people receive notification from their insurer that their plan is being canceled, “just shop around in the new marketplace,” Obama said. “That’s what it’s for.” He said people were likely to find better insurance plans for the same price or less.

But then, this is the same man who said this:

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James D. Hamilton is Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego.

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