"Stunning new report undermines central GOP Obamacare claim"

[applegrove]

Stunning new report undermines central GOP Obamacare claim

By George Zornick at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/12/31/stunning-new-report-undermines-central-gop-obamacare-claim/

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A crucial GOP line of attack against the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is that millions of people will supposedly lose coverage thanks to shifting requirements on the health insurance exchanges — a flagrant violation of President Obama’s infamous “if you like your plan, you can keep it” proclamation. The truth has always been more complicated, of course. Republicans are constantly blurring the line between people who lose a plan and people who lose coverage. That is, many people might lose a particular insurance plan but immediately be presented with other options.
Fliers promoting the Get Covered Illinois health insurance marketplace sit in a box at the Bureau County Health Department offices in Princeton, Illinois, U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. Today’s deadline for Americans to sign up for Obamacare health coverage effective Jan. 1 was extended until midnight tomorrow as heavy traffic to the online enrollment system caused a queuing system to be activated Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
Fliers promoting the Get Covered Illinois health insurance marketplace. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)

Now, a new report from the minority staff of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce has destroyed the foundation of that particular GOP claim. It projects that only 10,000 people will lose coverage because of the ACA and be unable to regain it — or in other words, 0.2 percent of the oft-cited 5 million cancellations statistic.

The report starts with an assumption that 4.7 million will receive cancellation notices about their 2013 plan. (Notably it doesn’t endorse that figure, just takes it on for the sake of argument.) But of those, who will get a new plan?

•According to the report, half of the 4.7 million will have the option to renew their 2013 plans, thanks to an administrative fix this year.





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[Scuba]

1. Truth matters not to the Republican message masters.

[applegrove]

2. Obama has adapted the plan so it works best. No way the GOP will ever agree.

[MADem]

3. When they can't flog that piece of shit excuse anymore, they'll ramp up the

"Gee, isn't it costing more now for medical treatment than it did beforrrrrrrrrrre?"

Stand by for some expressions of "concern" on those lines.

In actual fact, costs have gone down, but they're gonna try that one out for a week or two, count on it.

[lolly]

6. They'll find 3 people

Who have to pay more for their prescription or for a visit to the doctor and then flog their stories endlessly.

[tclambert]

7. That's right. Part of Reagan's legacy. Anecdotes count for more than statistics.

Even if you make up the anecdotes. Welfare queen in Chicago who drives a Cadillac? That false story made it OK for conservatives to vilify the poor.

[underpants]

11. It was also flat out racist

Welfare... Cadillac - even as a teenager old I knew what he meant by that

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. Conveniently, without mentioning ...

that those three people didn't have insurance and therefore didn't seek healthcare (except ER visits) before ... so if they pay a single penny on their prescription or doctor's visit, their costs will have increased 100%, OMG!

[Triana]

4. My guess is they'll continue repeating the lie...facts be damned.

Facts never stopped them from "catapulting the propaganda" before have they? Nah.

[Boomerproud]

13. I guarantee it will make no difference whatsoever-neither the Pubbies nor Fox News will back off.

They have way too much invested in this-their lies have to succeed.

[mikekohr]

5. I'm from Bureau County! WOO HOO! We made the Washington Post nt

[cynzke]

9. They conveniently forget...

that at the time all these policies were pending cancellations, the insurance companies had new ACA compliant plans in place to offer these people. Some of their insureds accepted the option and rolled over to the new plans eff. 1/2014. So to suggest that all the people whose policies were cancelled are on now in limbo, uninsured is a lie. No insurance company is going to cancel these policies without trying keep these customers. Ridiculous.

[underpants]

10. A very good point

The idea that insurance companies would just throw up their hands and say, "oh well we just market share" is absurd.

Thanks for posting that

[davidpdx]

12. The truth is there is nothing "stunning" about it

We knew all along that the Republican claims were bullshit. It won't stop them from repeating it over and over again.

[TheKentuckian]

14. I didn't realize they had a "central claim", my impression has been pure shit flinging and lies

of a pull it out of a hat, try anything but something legitimate variety least they actually do something beneficial in the process of repression, stirring shit, and funnelling wealth and power.