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More Obamacare Heartache: More Americans Losing Their Health Insurance

The hype and dream are fizzling out with the Administration’s big promise on
Obamacare—that every American who liked his or her health plan could keep it. According to a new tally, nearly 1.5 million customers in the individual insurance market have lost their current health plans.
one woman in Florida says her cost will increase more than 10 times.

David Hogberg breaks down the insurance cancellations to date at the National Center for Public Policy Research: -24,000 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -13,000 in central and eastern Pennsylvania.

What’s worse is that more Americans could end up losing their current health insurance under Obamacare. “In total, 16 million people who purchase insurance for themselves could lose their current health plans on January 1,” writes Heritage senior health policy analyst Chris Jacobs. “And that number doesn’t even count the Americans losing employer-provided health coverage—because their firms are dropping spousal coverage or dropping coverage for part-time workers.”

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