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Actually, the number of people who lose Health Insurance a day is on average 15,238 a day.
PolitiFact | Obama claims 14,000 lose health insurance every day
Sorry Republicans for bringing up your hopes, and dashing them.
PolitiFact | Obama claims 14,000 lose health insurance every day
Holahan and his co-author, using a baseline of 4.6 percent unemployment in 2007, calculated that 2.6 million people would lose coverage if the unemployment rate climbed to 7 percent; 3.7 million if it went to to 8 percent; 4.8 million at 9 percent; and 5.8 million at 10 percent. The estimates took into account people who lost their jobs but then switched to a spouse’s plan or extended their coverage through COBRA, the federal law that guarantees people who lose their job can still get continued health coverage.
Applying Holahan's calculations to the actual rise in unemployment from November 2008 to June 2009, we came up with 3.2 million people losing health coverage, or an average of 15,238 per day, so it is close to the 14,000 Obama cited.
Sorry Republicans for bringing up your hopes, and dashing them.
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