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LOOKING FORWARD
IN ANGST
HUFFINGTON
11.10.13
Winners and Losers From Obamacare
LOSERS
3% POTENTIAL
Will have to buy a higher-quality health
plan with no annual cap
REAL CONSEQUENCE
3% NO
Have to buy new plans, but similar to existing policies
WINNERS
14% CLEAR
Currently uninsured who gain access
to an affordable policy
SOURCES ESTIMATES FROM JON GRUBER, REPORTED BY RYAN LIZZA
80% UNAFFECTED
Largely people who keep their current employer plan
This chart has been generated
based on rough estimates supplied
by MIT’s Jonathan Gruber — who
helped build both Massachusetts’
health care system and the Affordable Care Act — to The New
Yorker’s Ryan Lizza. The Huffington Post’s Jeffrey Young serves up
a similar analysis, figuring that
while “estimates vary,” census data
suggests that we’re talking “about
4 percent of Americans, which
comes to about 11 million people.”
Essentially, this is the view of
“people who are losing their health
care coverage” from 30,000 feet in
the air. The first thing you have to
acknowledge, however, is that Gru-
ber’s estimates still demonstrate
that “if you like your plan, you can
keep it” was a false thing to promise, even if you’re ro [