for the double increase. and your friends. what are your friends saying about it? are any of them having good experiences? no, they really aren t. i have another friend who is in a very similar situation, and another one who is actually even worse than we are, that s been affected. who do you blame for this, or why is this happening to you? i m sorry? who do you blame or why is this happening to your family? well, i think the blame would have to be with the government for passing the policy, for passing the bill. we had where do you see it going? what do you think is going to happen? i m not really sure what s going to happen. what i hope happen is there is a compromise where we could be able to keep the insurance that we had and that we preferred, at the same rate that we had it. allison, thank you. and good luck to you and your family, allison. okay, i appreciate it. thank you very much. coming up, exactly what the
you know, the president of the united states doesn t have to apologize to me. i doubt he was intentionally misleading people. reporter: so you forgive him. i forgive him, absolutely. allison strickland s plan is being cancelled, so what does she think of the president s policy apology? she joins us. allison, nice to see you. do you accept the apology? i appreciate his apology, but it still doesn t help our situation right now. what is your situation? what happened with your family? well, with our family, our premiums increased from $440 a month to $920 a month, but that was a $480 increase. so did your you got a cancellation notice, i take it, right? we did. all right. so then, you went on the website? yes, well, we ve been discussing with blue cross and blue shield about our options of what those options were. and so, there was nothing that
for the double increase. and your friends. what are your friends saying about it? are any of them having good experiences? no, they really aren t. i have another friend who is in a very similar situation, and another one who is actually even worse than we are, that s been affected. who do you blame for this, or why is this happening to you? i m sorry? who do you blame or why is this happening to your family? well, i think the blame would have to be with the government for passing the policy, for passing the bill. we had where do you see it going? what do you think is going to happen? i m not really sure what s going to happen. what i hope happen is there is a compromise where we could be able to keep the insurance that we had and that we preferred, at the same rate that we had it. allison, thank you. and good luck to you and your family, allison. okay, i appreciate it. thank you very much. coming up, exactly what the
0 from the cbo that were mimicked, incidentally, by his own omb? did he not understand when the actuary at hhs said, no, these estimates are way too low, it will be at least 14 million? he implemented it as it was required to be implemented. the other thing in this apology, he said, oh, it s just a tiny what did he say? 5%. that s 5% of 320 million people? no, no, it s 5% of policies. let s take a look, though. here are the numbers. 153 million people in america have employer-provided coverage through a group through a group plan. about 15 million policies are in the individual market. these cover all all of these cover multiple people. if you got coverage at work, it generally provides coverage for your family. so that s 168 million private insurance policies, roughly. now, 90 million of them are not subject to obama care. this may surprise you. a self-funded insurance plan, which is roughly 62% of the group market and growing that number is growing those people are not
you know, the president of the united states doesn t have to apologize to me. i doubt he was intentionally misleading people. reporter: so you forgive him. i forgive him, absolutely. allison strickland s plan is being cancelled, so what does she think of the president s policy apology? she joins us. allison, nice to see you. do you accept the apology? i appreciate his apology, but it still doesn t help our situation right now. what is your situation? what happened with your family? well, with our family, our premiums increased from $440 a month to $920 a month, but that was a $480 increase. so did your you got a cancellation notice, i take it, right? we did. all right. so then, you went on the website? yes, well, we ve been discussing with blue cross and blue shield about our options of what those options were. and so, there was nothing that