Caption : Paul Simon, 39, of California has filed a lawsuit against his health insurance provider Anthem Blue Cross because he believes the company intentionally convinced him he needed to "drop" his current health care plan because of the Affordable Care Act.

Caption : Paul Simon, 39, of California has filed a lawsuit against his health insurance provider Anthem Blue Cross because he believes the company intentionally convinced him he needed to "drop" his current health care plan because of the Affordable Care Act.

Insurance companies have mailed cancellation letters to many households throughout the U.S. informing Americans that their current health insurance plans do not meet the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) minimum standards of health care, and they must change plans.

These letters have surprised and frustrated a number of Americans citing that President Obama told Americans, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”

Specifically, about 900,000 Californians have received cancellation notices; Paul Simon, 39, and his co-plaintiff Catherine Coker, 63, are two of them and have filed a lawsuit against their health care provider, Anthem Blue Cross.

They believe that they have been convinced to cancel their previous insurance under illegal intentions.

In a post by ThinkProgress, “Blue Cross successfully enticed tens of thousands of its individual policyholders to switch out of their grandfathered health plans and forever lose their protected grandfathered status,” states the lawsuit. “Blue Cross concealed information about the consequences of switching plans and intentionally misled its policyholders to encourage the replacement of grandfathered policies.”

Grandfathered Polices refer to the policies issued before President Obama signed the law in 2010. As long as these policies are not changed or altered and the insurance company continues to offer it, the individual will not be affected by the recent alterations in the market.

William Shemoff, Simon and Coker‘s attorney, told The Los Angeles Times, “This is about an insurance company manipulating the situation and concealing the facts.”

Since the lawsuit was filed, Anthem Blue Cross of California has granted the 104,000 customers affected by these cancellation notices with a two-month extension of these plans through February.

As Simon and Coker continue to pursue their lawsuit, many other Americans that have also been dropped from their plans will be watching the outcome closely to see if they can indeed “keep their plans.”