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Jackson, another supporter whose family has benefited from the law. and ron pollock joins us now along with dr. zeke emanuel who was an adviser to the white house on health care. so ron, let me start with you. you were joined today by somebody who has benefited directly from this law. this court ruling today in real terms to real people, what does it mean? >> it means that they now have the peace of mind that the health coverage they couldnt get before the affordable care act became law, now the...

Secondly to make sure that insurance pools are for the just made up of older sicker people so that premiums would rise. you have a requirement that people buy insurance. and the third part of the leg is you got to help people and you provide subsidies for them. so if you took one of those legs out from under the stool, the stool would collapse. and the chief justice really understood that. he went through the history of states around the country that tried to do this and they failed because they...

The affordable care act is good and now, you know, we know that it wouldnt be repealed. john roberts was pretty clear no more frivolous lawsuits. and no more fear that the administration might come in and change this rule because the irs was the source of the ruling in this ambiguous case. and i think he pretty much put to rest for good. >> ron, you were in the courtroom today. we dont have cameras in there unfortunately. but we had this very bitter vitrealic dissent read by anthony scolia, robe...

People who have coverage grow every single year, and as it becomes fully embedded into the fabric of american society, i think what you began to hear today with republicans up on capitol hill, some of them saying, well, maybe we should try a different approach while others are simply saying repeal and replace. steve, that is going -- the repeal and replace is going to become increasingly untenable as this really gets woven even deeper into the fabric of american society. so again, this is why we...

Of people in the individual market have really lousy coverage. this is the wild, wild west of coverage. >> that is not true. >> it is true. >> -- we dont sell a substandard policy. im telling you, that is not true. >> unfortunately most people with private insurance, individual coverage have substandard policies. and moreover, these policies currently deny coverage to people with preexisting health conditions. they charge discriminatory premiums when people are sick. they terminate coverage when...

Assurances they got from me. >> cade, your reaction? >> he is right about one thing. it is scary but its only scary because he made it that way by changing the rules in the middle of the game. we were told countless times if we wanted to keep our current insurance we could. now that is not true as i found out. this president forced a piece of legislation out that wasnt ready for prime time. he pushed it through congress and now he pushed it on the american people and the real victims are people ...

On that because in the interview where he gave the quote, apology, explaining why he was culpable or why he said what he said but just that he felt the pain of people like cade and steve, the president says hes looking for some administrative way, definitely not going back to congress to try to help folks like that who have lost their policies. but as you just heard from ron pollock, he cant go and uncancel the cancellations because if you did that youd have to go back to the states which regula...

On that because in the interview where he gave the quote, apology, explaining why he was culpable or why he said what he said but just that he felt the pain of people like cade and steve, the president says hes looking for some administrative way, definitely not going back to congress to try to help folks like that who have lost their policies. but as you just heard from ron pollock, he cant go and uncancel the cancellations because if you did that youd have to go back to the states which regula...

Assurances they got from me. >> cade, your reaction? >> he is right about one thing. it is scary but its only scary because he made it that way by changing the rules in the middle of the game. we were told countless times if we wanted to keep our current insurance we could. now that is not true as i found out. this president forced a piece of legislation out that wasnt ready for prime time. he pushed it through congress and now he pushed it on the american people and the real victims are people ...