fact-check site accused of Mitt Romney of lying with his accurate claim that “up to 20 million Americans could lose their insurance under ObamaCare.”
Mitt Romney DID LIE, on the net 15 million people GAINED insurance and about 500,000 that did get cancelation notes from insurance did get NEW insurance.
That's why overall it is a blatantly misleading lying about Obamacare effects on the insurance coverage.
In U.S., Uninsured Rate Sinks to 12.9%
Far from it. Romney was correct.
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How Many ‘Cancellations’ Are There, Really?
At least half of the 14 million people who shop in the individual insurance market
can expect to receive a cancellation letter ahead of next year.
A review by “Road to Reform” found that hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters had already been sent in states like Oregon, Florida and Georgia. And about 1 million of consumers affected
are in California.
One key PR challenge: The cancellation letters are piling up at a much faster rate than Americans are able to sign up for new coverage.
In North Dakota — where just 20 policies
were sold on the federal exchange as of late last month — at least 2,500 cancellation letters had gone out to residents last month.
The federal government’s original intent was to have their new insurance marketplaces up and running, so affected consumers would be easily able to shop around for a replacement.
“Although they’re canceled, they are offered another policy,” CMS Administrator
Marilyn Tavenner told a Senate panel on Tuesday. “But I think what’s important for them to understand is, it’s not just that policy, it’s also the ability to go on the exchange.”
But given the exchange’s technical woes, many of these consumers haven’t yet had the chance.
How Many People Will End Up Paying More?
Another PR problem: A slew of anecdotes where consumers report that their new plans cost significantly more than the plans that they just lost.
As
Lisa Aliferis reported for KQED’s “State of Health” blog, some Californians are seeing premiums go up — and not just by a little, but a lot. Aliferis details the case of Mark Brown, whose premiums shot up by about 90% after Kaiser canceled his old plan and offered him a new one.
It’s still unclear how many Americans are being asked to spend more, and the unique factors driving each customer’s situation.
In some cases, it’s because healthy consumers who got by with low premiums are being asked to pay more and cross-subsidize the sicker Americans now obtaining coverage. In others, it’s because the old plan simply didn’t meet minimum requirements under the ACA.
But once the initial flurry of media attention subsides, and consumers have a chance to understand their new plan options and subsidies, many Americans will eventually realize they’re better off, according to Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
“Of course, this is not really easy to explain in a soundbite,”
Levitt told The New Republic‘s Jonathan Cohn.}
How Many People Are Losing Their Plans Under Obamacare, Really?
