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Search results for "T-Mobile forced 8 million customers off grandfathered plans"

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TikTok posts stated on December 25, 2023 in a TikTok video:
T-Mobile plans to fine its customers up to $3,500 for text messages it doesn't like.
By Jeff Cercone• January 4, 2024
Senate Republican Conference stated on March 22, 2012 in a Web video:
"Up to 80 percent of small businesses will be forced to give up their current plans due to new Obamacare regulations."
By Becky Bowers• March 27, 2012
Blake Farenthold stated on January 23, 2011 in an op-ed:
"Despite claims that you can 'keep the health care plan you like,' the Obama Administration has predicted that as many as 7 out of 10 Americans with employer-provided health coverage could lose their current health plan."
By Louis Jacobson• February 2, 2011
Bill Posey stated on February 01, 2011 in a letter to the editor:
"Before this law was passed, Americans were told they could keep their current health care plans. After it became law, the administration issued regulations stating nearly half of Americans would lose their current plan."
By Amy Sherman• February 8, 2011
U.S. Chamber of Commerce stated on October 28, 2016 in an ad:
Says Russ Feingold said that with Obamacare, "we could keep our doctors and our plans, it was rated as the Lie of the Year."  
By Tom Kertscher• November 4, 2016
Valerie Jarrett stated on October 28, 2013 in a tweet:
"FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans."
By Louis Jacobson• October 30, 2013
Instagram posts stated on February 22, 2024 in an Instagram post:
Solar flares caused AT&T’s cellphone outage.
By Sara Swann• February 28, 2024
Nancy Pelosi stated on November 17, 2013 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The (health care) law does not demand that all of these cancellations go out."
By Jon Greenberg• November 17, 2013
Rush Limbaugh stated on October 30, 2013 in comments on his radio show:
"If your plan is the result of collective bargaining, no subsequent changes by anybody -- insurance companies, Obamacare -- can force your grandfathered policy to change."
By Katie Sanders• November 4, 2013
TikTok posts stated on March 05, 2025 in a TikTok post:
If you update your iPhone to iOS 18.3, you are going to have Starlink automatically installed in your phone.
By Maria Briceño• March 31, 2025
Elizabeth Warren stated on August 27, 2019 in an op-ed in the Washington Post:
"We lag behind many other developed nations in connectivity and speed, while also paying more for that service."
By Jon Greenberg• August 29, 2019
Fight for the Future stated on August 28, 2018 in in a tweet:
"We saw the true danger of the FCC's net neutrality repeal when Verizon was caught throttling California fire fighters."
By John Kruzel• September 7, 2018
Michael T. Owens stated on April 01, 2015 in a news report:
A $5-a-night hotel/motel tax that’s part of the transportation bill will hurt Georgia’s convention business by adding extra costs for large groups coming to the state.
By April Hunt• April 15, 2015
Mark Warner stated on September 29, 2014 in :
On opposing legislation that would take away existing health care plans.
By Warren Fiske, Nancy Madsen• September 29, 2014
Ezekiel Emanuel stated on November 03, 2013 in a "Fox News Sunday" interview:
"The insurance companies are making that choice (to cancel or change policies), not the president."
By Julie Kliegman• November 3, 2013
Chuck Grassley stated on February 05, 2022 in a tweet:
"During the first 3 months of FY2022 Customs& Border Protection recorded 518k encounters w illegal immigrants at S border That’s up 137% from same point in FY2021."
By Lauren White• March 3, 2022
Kevin McCarthy stated on May 04, 2017 in CNN:
"Nobody on Medicaid" will have their benefits taken away.
By John Kruzel• May 9, 2017
Kurt Schrader stated on November 09, 2013 in a TV interview.:
On whether people can keep their insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
By Ian K. Kullgren• November 26, 2013
Ann Coulter stated on February 02, 2014 in an interview on "Fox & Friends Weekend":
A friend’s sister "died from Obamacare" because Blue Shield "completely just pulled out of California."
By Katie Sanders• February 5, 2014
Kellyanne Conway stated on June 25, 2017 in an appearance on ABC's 'This Week':
"If you became a Medicaid recipient through the Obamacare expansion, you are grandfathered in."
By Joshua Gillin• June 25, 2017

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