insurance under obama care. but, like, out in washington, technically, the insurer was following the letter of the law, so the best that the insurance commissioner could do was put out a consumer alert and try to inform people that they have other options. but in some cases, their hands are tied. in some places, they are able to take some disciplinary action, so it depends. what s striking to me about the reporting in your piece is the woman who s the subject of that, who receives the letter in washington, donna, strikes me as quite self-possessed and quite educated, and she essentially has to do all this due diligence to go out and realize she s having the wool pulled over her eyes. but you can imagine thousands and hundreds of thousands of people who are in similar circumstances not being necessarily equipped to do that. dylan scott from talking points memo, nancy metcalf from consumer reports. thank you so much. david axelrod, former senior adviser with president barack obama,
0 remember, there are over a million people in texas alone who are not getting insurance under obama care because republicans in texas blocked the medicaid expansion. there are over 700,000 people in florida, over 400,000 people in georgia who will not get coverage because they live in a state that blocked the medicaid expansion. have you heard their stories? do you know their name? just because they didn t get a letter doesn t mean they aren t getting screwed. joining me now is dylan scott who reported that great piece for talking points memo and nancy metcalf, senior editor at consumer reports, where she covers health care reform. dylan, i ll start with you. great piece of reporting, and one of the things i found amazing is the way in which the letter from the insurance company announcing the cancellation of coverage is designed to essentially very quickly and slyly roll someone over into a much more expensive plan without actually communicating what their options are. exactly.
0 advocates and state regulators are concerned, and that is, the letters from insurers are leaving out two critical pieces of information. one, that people have the option to go to the marketplace and shop for insurance, both from these insurers and from other insurers. and two, that if they take these kind of default options that these insurers are presenting in the letters, they re not going to be able to take advantage of the financial assistance that obama care has to offer. so, for example, the woman that we reported on today in washington, the difference between what her insurer tried to funnel her into and what she was able to find on the marketplace was the difference between night and day. outside of the marketplace, her company would have put her in a plan that costs more than $1,000 a month, had a more than $6,000 deductible. but inside the exchange, she was able to find a plan with a $250 deductible that cost her $80 a month after the obama care s financial assistance was a
0 gets home. why can we not continue to have those same ideals when we get home. jason thigpen, thank you very much for joining us. msnbc in new jersey. chris hayes is up next. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. behind in the polls, desperate to turn things around, the republican candidate for governor of virginia, ten cuccinelli, the cucc, was on the trail today ripping obama care, convinced, it seems, that this will be the issue that can catapult him to an improbable victory tomorrow. probably not going to happen, but bashing obama care is good politics if you re a republican right now. and it certainly helps when so much of the media is serving up incomplete reports about the affordable care act. is the flurry of coverage about obama care confusing you? well, we here at all in can help. here s our viewer s guide to watching obama care coverage. when you see a report about someone being dropped from their insurance and not able to afford a replacement policy you
americans, you deserve better. i apologize. i m accountable to you for fixing these problems. and i m committed to earning your confidence back by fixing the site. you know, as the secretary and her team are working to fix the site as you heard you are left some questions about obama care and here to answer them is nancy metcalf from consumer reports, thank you for being here. my pleasure. the big thing was people were told you can t keep your policy, you have to buy a new policy that might be more expensive, it might cover more but it s more expensive. and they don t are these people being asked to buy something that they don t need? what would you tell those folks? well, the reason those policies are being canceled is because they don t they re not adequate to the rules of the new law, and the thing that s not adequate about them is they don t cover everything that they need to cover, the policies that are being canceled might not have prescription drug coverage, they m