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DrEugeneFixer
reply to post by elouina
5 million lost coverage due to Obamacare.
That's more Republican wishful thinking and willful misunderstanding, bordering on lying.
Care to back up that claim with a source?edit on 12/31/2013 by DrEugeneFixer because: (no reason given)
Millions of Americans who buy their own health insurance were informed this fall that their policies would no longer be offered starting in 2014 because they do not meet the higher standards of the federal Affordable Care Act. The actual number of people receiving the notices is unclear, in part because officials in nearly 20 states say they do not have the information or are not tracking it.
Some states tracked the policy notifications through their insurance departments or health care exchanges. In other states, the largest private insurers released the number of discontinuation notices they issued.
President Barack Obama then said insurance companies could allow the older policies to continue, but left that decision to the states and individual insurers. The response has been mixed.
DrEugeneFixer
reply to post by xuenchen
You conservatives need to learn to read. Nowhere in that list is there any indication of whether the people whose policies were cancelled were offered or purchased another policy. If they got another policy, they didn't 'lose insurance'.
So the title '3 million net loss of insured' is just a lie.
xuenchen
DrEugeneFixer
reply to post by xuenchen
You conservatives need to learn to read. Nowhere in that list is there any indication of whether the people whose policies were cancelled were offered or purchased another policy. If they got another policy, they didn't 'lose insurance'.
So the title '3 million net loss of insured' is just a lie.
well uh um
can you show us where and how they got new policies ?
xuenchen
Obviously if somebody gets cancelled, they would want anything that will help right?
DrEugeneFixer
reply to post by xuenchen
You conservatives need to learn to read. Nowhere in that list is there any indication of whether the people whose policies were cancelled were offered or purchased another policy. If they got another policy, they didn't 'lose insurance'.
So the title '3 million net loss of insured' is just a lie.
Krazysh0t
So if 5 million people lose their insurance and 2 million people sign up, the total change in insured people is a change of -3 million.
DrEugeneFixer
reply to post by SourGrapes
Spare me. I pointed out a basic mathematical error in the claim of the thread. If you want to provide evidence that none or very few of the people whose policies were cancelled purchased insurance off the exchanges, go ahead and post it. Until then, it would seem that the idea that millions more will be uninsured is based on some big assumptions.
But don't you think that with such great news like people automatically and immediately buying new more expensive policies after being cancelled would be perfect news for the Administration and insurance companies to broadcast as successful ?