Of the White House's attempt to blame private companies for millions of Americans losing their health insurance policies under Obamacare, the Washington Post fact checker issued its ruling:
Blaming the insurance companies can only go so far. First of all, the administration wrote the rules that set the conditions under which plans lose their grandfather status. But more important, the law has an effective date so far in the past that it virtually guaranteed that the vast majority of people currently in the individual market would end up with a notice saying they needed to buy insurance on the Obamacare exchanges.
The administration’s effort to pin the blame on insurance companies is a classic case of misdirection. Between 75 and 95 percent of the problem stems from the effective date, but the White House chooses to keep the focus elsewhere.
The fact checker gave the White House "three pinocchios," a rating that signals a claim's "significant factual error and/or obvious contradictions."
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