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10. Actually

Mon Jan 30, 2012, 03:08 PM

Jan 2012

It really is a small percentage of the total population that will be affected by the mandate. Some 85+% of people already had insurance. HCR only added about 7 -8 % to the number of people covered.

...95 percent minus 83 percent (the current level) is 12 percent. About 16 to 17 percent of Americans lack insurance.

The regulations don't directly affect many of the insured, since the regulations were modeled on many of the most popular plans.

It affects those who would have been dropped because of a pre-existing condition. The rebate checks from the new MLR rule go to those who have coverage.

Still, keep trying to denigrate the law, but facts are facts.

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