I lost my individual healthcare plan, and I couldn’t afford the new ones. Remember when they said you could keep your plan? Yeah, that’s the one I lost.
I'm curious as to how your experience actually using the plan for more than preventive coverage? IIRC, plans before the ACA had a ton of customer unfriendly provisions which made the insurance far less usable in practice. E.g. denying coverage for preexisting conditions.
There was never a guarantee that you were going to keep your plan anyway, was there? Insurance companies are changing plans from year to year.
Would you have been able to keep your plan under the system before ACA? There’s a lot of context missing in your comment.