Obamacare: More than 2 million people getting booted from existing health insurance plans 
 
 (CBS News) CBS News has learned more than two million Americans have been told they cannot renew their current insurance policies -- more than triple the number of people said to be buying insurance under the new Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. 
 
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 There have been estimates about hundreds of thousands of people losing coverage, CBS News' Jan Crawford reported on "CBS This Morning." CBS News has reached out to insurance companies across the country to determine some of the real numbers -- and this is just the tip of the iceberg, Crawford said. The people who are opening the letters are shocked to learn they can't keep their insurance policies despite President Obama's assurances to the contrary. 
 
 The White House is on the defensive trying to explain it, after Mr. Obama repeatedly said, "If you like your doctor or health care plan, you can keep it." 
 
 White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said, "What the president said and what everybody said all along is that there are going to be changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act to create minimum standards of coverage." 
 
 It's an unexpected reality of Obamacare being told through anecdotes in local papers and on social media. But the hard numbers reveal the evidence is far more than anecdotal. CBS News has confirmed with insurance companies across the country that more than two million people are getting notices they no longer can keep their existing plans. In California, there are 279,000; in Michigan, 140,000; Florida, 300,000; and in New Jersey, 800,000. And those numbers are certain to go even higher. Some companies who tell CBS News they've sent letters won't say how many. 
 
 Industry experts like Larry Levitt, of the Kaiser Family Foundation, say the insurance companies have no choice. "What we're seeing now is reality coming into play," he said. 
 
 
 
 Obamacare forces them to drop many of their plans that don't meet the law's 10 minimum standards, including maternity care, emergency visits, mental health treatment and even pediatric dental care. 
 
 That means consumers have to sign on to new plans even if they don't want or need the more generous coverage. Industry experts say about half the people getting the letters will pay more -- and half will pay less, thanks to taxpayer subsidies. Levitt said, "The winners outnumber the losers here, but because of all the website problems, it's hard to find out who the winners are because they don't even know it themselves." 
 
 And for the people who've gotten the letters, the broken website is a real problem, Crawford added on "CTM." They don't know what to do. They don't know if they get subsidies. And then there are others getting the letters who have very good insurance but are being told they can't keep it. Industry experts CBS News talked to say for everyone, the best bet is to just call their insurance companies to get the information. 
 
 Watch Jan Crawford's full report above. 

 The Obama administration is strongly pushing back Monday night on an NBC News report that the White House has known for years that millions of consumers would lose their insurance under Obamacare. 
 
 “NBC ‘scoop’ cites ‘normal turnover in the indiv insurance market’. That’s a) not new b) not caused by #ACA c) the problem #ACA will solve,” White House principal deputy press secretary Josh Earnest said in a tweet. 
 
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 It comes as the Obama administration tries to climb out of the disastrous rollout of its HealthCare.gov site, which is now in its 28th day. Republicans are hoping to seize on the bad news with hopes of delaying or blocking the law. 
 
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 NBC News’s investigative team reported Monday that up to three quarters of the 14 million Americans who buy insurance on the individual market can expect their coverage to be canceled by next year because of the law’s minimum coverage requirements. NBC said that the administration has known since July 2010 that at least 40 to 67 percent of customers would not be able to keep their policies, even though President Barack Obama said before the law passed — and repeated in 2012 — that if you like your plan, you can keep it. 
 
 The White House says not so. 
 
 On Twitter, Dan Pfeiffer called it a “misleading” story. 
 
 “FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans. No change is required unless insurance companies change existing plans,” Valerie Jarrett wrote. 
 
 To be sure, many consumers will lose their insurance plans in 2014. How directly that’s related to the law can be debated. 
 
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 Cancellation notices have gone out, and Obamacare opponents are hoping to capitalize on that fact. 
 
 The law requires insurance plans to meet basic standards after 2014. If they don’t meet those standards, insurers can no longer sell those plans unless they are “grandfathered” – or they existed before 2010 and haven’t changed at all since then. 
 
 So, if an insurer changed a premium or a deductible in 2013, the plan is no longer grandfathered under Obamacare and can’t be renewed in 2014. 
 
 The White House says it’s not forcing anyone off those plans – the insurers are if they change their policy and it loses its grandfathered status. 
 
 The law’s drafters said from the start that they’d eliminate low-quality insurance plans, arguing that the coverage was almost worse than no coverage at all if it still allowed consumers to go bankrupt from a catastrophic illness. Obamacare supporters say the same consumers can get better coverage through the health law.
– NBC News and the White House are locked in a showdown over whether millions of Americans will see cancellation letters from their health insurers due to ObamaCare: Despite President Obama's assurances that "if you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan," an NBC investigation finds that many of these policies are ineligible under the Affordable Care Act's standards—and the administration has known that for years. ObamaCare regulations "grandfathered in" policies that were up and running by March 23, 2010, but regulations added since state that changes to things like the deductible, co-pay, or benefits make a policy ineligible for that grandfathering. Translation: Up to 75% of the 14 million Americans who buy insurance individually may have their insurance cancelled. White House officials have been blasting the report on Twitter, Politico reports, arguing that NBC is blaming ObamaCare for normal insurance market turnover. "FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans," Valerie Jarrett wrote. "No change is required unless insurance companies change existing plans." But many plans tweak premiums or deductibles from year to year. CBS is reporting today that more than 2 million Americans have already been told they can't renew their current policies—which is more than three times the number of people who've signed up for new ObamaCare policies.