Boehner’s claim that health-care law has resulted in a ‘net loss’ of people with health insurance

Boehner’s claim that health-care law has resulted in a ‘net loss’ of people with health insurance:

We readily concede that there are problems with the data on health-care sign-ups, many of which were first detailed here at The Fact Checker. But Boehner’s math is absurdly simplistic if he is trying to claim that the number of people with health insurance is now lower because of Obamacare.

That’s because the 6 million figure for “lost” insurance and the 4 million for healthcare.gov sign-ups are apples and oranges. They cannot be compared.

A large percentage of the people whose old plans were canceled were automatically moved to new plans offered by the same insurance companies. These people may not be happy with their new coverage — and may have appeared in an ad sponsored by Americans for Prosperity — but they got a plan without going through healthcare.gov. (Here’s an example of such a letter, courtesy of our colleagues at PolitiFact.)

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