The misleading claims of lost insurance coverage

Phillip Klein:

Stop saying 13 million people will lose coverage if the individual mandate is repealed

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The 13 million cited by the CBO fit into several different categories. Among them are 5 million Medicaid beneficiaries and 2 million workers who would decline offers of employer coverage. Because repealing mandate penalties would not change Medicaid eligibility, meaning that anybody who didn't sign up would still qualify, and could be signed up if they ever needed medical care. Similarly, repealing the mandate penalties would not mean that those employees would lose their offer of coverage. So, right off the bat, at least 7 million of the 13 million would not really be losing any coverage.

An additional 5 million would be uninsured on the individual market, according to the CBO, which writes, "Those effects would occur mainly because healthier people would be less likely to obtain insurance and because, especially in the nongroup market, the resulting increases in premiums would cause more people to not purchase insurance." (The numbers don't add up to 13 million, because of rounding.)
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There is more.

I think it is also likely that the health people might opt for policies that did not include some of teh mandated coverages of Obamacare.  In other words, they would seek coverage that fit their needs and not be subsidizing people with different needs.  At any rate, they would not be losing coverage, they would just be declining to buy coverage they did not think they would need.

To say that they would lose coverage is the politics of fraud.