Since ObamaCare was launched in October, more than 5 million Americans have been notified that their health insurance plans will be canceled. In the meantime, just 106,000 Americans have been able to sign up for new health insurance plans through ObamaCare. Here in Illinois, just 1,370 Illinoisans have put an ObamaCare health plan in their “shopping cart” online.

Today, President Obama made an announcement aimed at delaying the cancellation of more Americans’ health insurance plans. He announced that insurance companies now have the option to delay canceling people’s plans for one more year.

The Illinois Policy Institute’s Director of Health Policy, Naomi Lopez-Bauman, is available to comment on this new development and discuss the law’s impact here in Illinois and nationally.

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Naomi Lopez-Bauman: A longtime public policy expert and specialist in the health policy field, Naomi joined the Illinois Policy Institute in 2013. Prior to joining the Institute, Naomi served as a researcher and analyst with the Pacific Research Institute in California and the nationally-acclaimed Cato Institute. She has appeared on PBS, CNN, CNBC, Fox News and MSNBC, and is the author of more than 100 studies, articles and op-eds. Naomi has been published in Investor’s Business Daily, the Washington Times, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, San Diego Union-Tribune and the Los Angeles Daily Journal, among other news outlets.