Zeke Emanuel: ‘No One Guaranteed You That Your Premium Wouldn’t Increase’

Fox’s Wallace Grills Ezekiel Emanuel on Obamacare Enrollment, ‘If You Like Your Doctor’ Pledge (Mediaite)

Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace and Ezekiel Emanuel had themselves an interruptathon Sunday morning, as the two battled over the improved Affordable Care Act website and the remaining problems with inaccurate insurance enrollments and narrowed network coverage.

The two spent a good deal of time arguing about the percentage of young adults projected to sign up through exchanges. The Congressional Budget Office projected that the law would need about 39% young enrollees to have a balanced risk pool and avoid rising premiums. Emanuel pointed out that in California, where the functional state exchange has produced parseable data, the youth enrollment matches the population.

“In California, when they look at the number of enrollees and broke them down by age, the number of young adults, 18-34, matched the population in California, and that’s exactly what you want to be seeing,” Emanuel said. “That’s not a poll, that’s actual signing up.”