Insurers Plan To Debunk GOP's 'Rigged' Obamacare Study In Front Of Congress

[DonViejo]

DYLAN SCOTT – MAY 7, 2014, 9:55 AM EDT

Insurance companies plan to effectively debunk the House GOP's much-derided Obamacare survey at a Wednesday hearing.

The hearing is a follow-up to last week's report from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and is hosted by one of its subcommittees, that found only 67 percent of Obamacare enrollees had paid their premiums as of April 15. An industry source described the survey to TPM as "incredibly rigged" because it excluded any premium payments that were due April 30 or later.

Roughly 3 million of Obamacare's 8 million enrollees would have had payments due after April 15 because they signed up March 15 or later.

A follow-up letter sent to insurers by the committee seemed to indicate that companies had raised that issue. Testimony prepared for Wednesday's hearing, and which was first reported by Bloomberg, is another direct contradiction of the Republicans' methodology.

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2. This is a cash cow for all these

Insurance Companies. And you know dam well next year they will start their big time price gauging. But hey,more money for their Rethug gophers and water carriers.