Roberts’ ad cites the 20,000 figure from an October 2013 story out of
Kansas Watchdog, a conservative news website. That story says Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
Kansas City (which is
primarily based in Missouri but also serves two Kansas counties) sent out notices to about 10,000 Kansan policyholders, on top of the 9,450 from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
Kansas.
For Roberts, this is where the story ends.
But in reality, the thousands of people who received these letters did not end up without insurance.
The following November -- after the failed roll out of HealthCare.gov (Kansas uses the federal marketplace) -- Obama announced that people who had recieved these nonrenewal notices could
keep their policies through 2014.
Then in March of this year,
Kansas agreed to another transitional policy that
allowed all of these policies to continue through 2016.
