Thousands of Health Polices Canceled Thanks To Obamacare

Remember when Obama said you could keep your plan if you liked it?

SAN FRANCISCO – When Alemaz Belay got a letter from Blue Shield of California last month, notifying her that her health care policy would no longer be effective come Jan. 1, 2014 "due to new requirements for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)," and that her premium was going to increase, she was understandably upset.

"I thought the (health reform law) was going to make health care more affordable and not more expensive," said Belay, 57, an Ethiopian-born single mother of three in the San Francisco Bay area