We've already told you how Obamacare isn't shaping up the way it was billed. In many cases you cannot keep your doctor. But how about those preexisting conditions? Is life better for those people with preexisting conditions or worse for the high-risk when it comes to the law? Chief National Correspondent Jim Angle has the story.
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JIM ANGLE, FOX NEWS CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: President Obama's health care plan didn't just result in canceled policies for individuals, it also canceled every high-risk pool in the nation, all aimed at helping those with preexisting conditions who found it difficult to get insurance.
MERRILL MATTHEWS, INSTITUTE FOR POLICY INNOVATION: All of those people in the high-risk pools are going to be shifted over to health insurance. That's going to raise the premiums for everyone.
ANGLE: But it was supposed to help people like Victoria and Jeff Haidet who were in the high-risk pool in North Carolina. Their plan was expensive, but Vicki, a breast cancer survivor, was happy with it.
VICKI HAIDET, POTENTIAL OBAMACARE ENROLLEE: The coverage is OK. The doctors that we want to actually go to are all in the plan, and that has worked out OK.
ANGLE: In the high risk pool they've been paying $813 a month for premiums with a deductible of $5,200 each. But once they got a cancellation letter, they tried repeatedly to get on the healthcare.gov website. Jeff finally managed to fill out an application which is still pending. So they called Blue Cross Blue Shield, the only plan in their region.
JEFF HAIDET, POTENTIAL OBAMACARE ENROLLEE: And we were a little shocked to see that one come back at an even higher rate than what our high-risk insurance was. The rate came back at $950 a month for the policy which had higher deductibles than what we had in the high-risk pool.
ANGLE: Because it covered all the required benefits of Obamacare. Once the government allowed people to shop for plans on the website before enrolling, the Haidet's were amazed to see rates half what they'd been quoted. So they called Blue Cross for a reality check.
JEFF HAIDET: They said, yes, the rates we quoted you outside of the exchange are the exact same plans and the exact same rates you'll see inside the exchange. So something was obviously very wrong with the rates we were being presented in the exchange.
ANGLE: Officials acknowledged the rates quoted on the shopping site are just examples, that real rates will exact age, zip code, county, and state.
VICKI HAIDET: It says that it's an estimate on the rates that are coming out of the Obamacare shopping site right now. But clearly if you get an estimate you expect it to be closer than about half.
JEFF HAIDET: You're going to be shocked that the casual browsers is going to see these low rates, which is very misleading.
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ANGLE: But the bottom line is those with preexisting conditions, the very people Obamacare was supposed to help, may be paying more under the new plan than before. Bret?
BAIER: More on this tomorrow night. Jim, thank you.