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Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
so what do you have to say to the 4.5 million who lost their policies?
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According to PolitiFact and the Washington Post, only 500,000 out of that 4.5 million remained without insurance. There was an ACA fix late last fall to allow the old policies (that did not meet the new standard) to be continued for one year. Health Insurance companies automatically moved some the old policies into new plans . From the link.
Both fact-checking sites questioned Boehner’s number of those who had plans cancelled because they failed to meet the ACA’s minimum standards (best estimates place that number at under 5 million, not at 6).
Both sites also reminded Boehner that many cancelled polices were extended under the ACA’s fix enacted late last fall that allowed people to keep their policies for another year, while some were moved automatically by their insurance companies to new plans. PolitiFact estimated that the number of people actually left without insurance is about 500,000.
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