floor. megyn, three times as many six times as many of the people don t have insurance whatsoever now. mark, he said, period. he said if you like it they can t keep it. i don t see i gave kristen the floor. go ahead. there is something critical in what mark said that opened the door to this if you like your plan you can keep it. if any piece of the plan changed at all then the grandfathering is thrown out the window. exactly. it s a little tiny loophole that came fromys the law that i allowing the law to get rid of the policies. this whole if you like your plan, you can keep it takes a shot at a republican president. it s the read my lips, no new taxes of this president. this isn t a line he said one time in a speech and may have been an exaggeration.
insurance through their employer or government or medicare or medicaid or anything like that. is the white house addressing this right now? yes. the white house this morning is really repreezing its earlier advisories about grandfathering. in other words, people who bought their insurance before the law was pass the are grandfathered in unless their insurance changed. there s going to be a lot of questions. you said 11 million to 15 million people that this could affect. also getting under way, this morning on capitol hill, a hearing on stand your ground laws and whether they need to be reformed. testifying this morning was the mother of trayvon martin. it was highly debated during that case where george zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death in 2012. outrage led to widespread
six times as many of the people don t have insurance whatsoever now. mark, he said, period. he said if you like it they can t keep it. i don t see i gave kristen the floor. go ahead. there is something critical in what mark said that opened the door to this if you like your plan you can keep it. if any piece of the plan changed at all then the grandfathering is thrown out the window. exactly. it s a little tiny loophole that came fromys the law that i allowing the law to get rid of the policies. this whole if you like your plan, you can keep it takes a shot at a republican president. it s the read my lips, no new taxes of this president. this isn t a line he said one time in a speech and may have been an exaggeration.
estimate that about 15 million americans would no longer be able to keep those plans assuming some of the assumptions they have here from insurance companies. and somebody should have come out and said sort of waved the flag and said on private insurance all bets are off. and they didn t do that. we have been talking about this issue of grandfathering, which is kind of complicated for some time now. so this is not a huge surprise to people who are very close to it, nonetheless, it s a very big surprise for those people getting those letters, wolf. of the 15 million hon have those individual plans, mostly self-employed people, anywhere between let s say 7 million and 12 million of them will have to get they might get better insuran insurance. i ve talked to one puerto rican who found he was not going to get the subsidy.
get new coverage. the affordable care act did say that if you had coverage in march of 2010, when the law was passed, you would be able to keep it. subject to regulations to be put together by the secretary of health and human services. when the obama administration put the regulations together, they made them so strip gent that almost no policy is ultimately going to be able to apply. it s a complex regulation, but generally if crowd had a $1,000 deductible in march of 2010 and you raised it just to $500 in order to mitigate some of the premium increase,s, if you just increased it from $1,500 you lost your grandfathering and have to go into the new obama obamacare program. millions won t by affected this year because there s a loophole that the insurance companies are taking advantage of, and that is, if you change your anniversary date to december of