The Obama administration has repeatedly said that the
health-insurance-plan cancellations receiving so much attention in the
news in recent days will affect only the 5 percent of Americans who
purchase insurance on the individual market. The Department of Justice,
however, in a brief filed in federal court last month,
conceded that the
number may be much higher. According to the administration’s numbers,
nearly 80 million additional Americans, “a majority” of those on
employer-sponsored health plans, may also be out of luck.
“It is projected that more group health plans will transition to the
requirements under the regulations as time goes on,” DOJ lawyers wrote
in response to court challenge to the law’s requirement that insurance
plans provide coverage of contraception. “Defendants have estimated that
a majority of group health plans will have lost their grandfather
status by the end 2013.”
The DOJ cites the June 17, 2010, edition
of the Federal Register, which acknowledges that within the first year
of Obamacare’s employer mandate, the insurance plans offered by many
employers will be canceled because their policies will not be
grandfathered under the administration’s regulations.
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