It's a Daily Caller interview with Christopher Conover, a research scholar at Duke University and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
According to Conover, Rogers, if anything, understated his case: Conover says "at least" 129 million people will lose their coverage by the end of 2014.
How does Conover reach such a startling estimate? By redefining what it means to lose your coverage.
What Conover's talking about here isn't cancellation notices or pink slips, as Rogers says. It's any change to a plan at all. One of the examples he gives is the requirement to cover children up to age 26. Though plans offered by large employers are exempt from most of Obamacare's regulations, they have to abide by that one. And that regulation, popular as it is, costs money. So millions of employer plans expanded to cover older children and, in most cases, raised premiums slightly. According to Conover, all the people in those plans lost their plans because they "no longer have the health plans they used to have."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/05/the-gop-says-obamacare-will-cancel-80-100-million-plans-nope/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein&clsrd
According to Conover, Rogers, if anything, understated his case: Conover says "at least" 129 million people will lose their coverage by the end of 2014.
How does Conover reach such a startling estimate? By redefining what it means to lose your coverage.
What Conover's talking about here isn't cancellation notices or pink slips, as Rogers says. It's any change to a plan at all. One of the examples he gives is the requirement to cover children up to age 26. Though plans offered by large employers are exempt from most of Obamacare's regulations, they have to abide by that one. And that regulation, popular as it is, costs money. So millions of employer plans expanded to cover older children and, in most cases, raised premiums slightly. According to Conover, all the people in those plans lost their plans because they "no longer have the health plans they used to have."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/05/the-gop-says-obamacare-will-cancel-80-100-million-plans-nope/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein&clsrd