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>> activity there. >> reporter: once the hottest items are identified, a manager can use them to draw you in. to beat this, you have to go old school. im looking for a scarf, can you point me to them? >> yes. >> reporter: stay focused on what you want to buy by asking a sales clerk. next secret, a price tag strategy called a group of three with an anchor. three coats priced left to right. $100, 200 and $600. the retailer doesnt expect to sell many of the most expensive items. they are there to m...

>> its not even most. >> most peoples insurance plans -- everyones is going to change. we ever ones is going to change. there are add-ons. are there not on add-ons? >> it leaves people bankrupt. >> wait a minute. back in july of 2010. the government had their own estimates and they predicted 60%, 65% of small business. 45% of large business. and now we know 85%. thats 100 million people that wont be able to keep their plan. this is a great scam. >> the "wall street journal" did a terrific piece ...

>> absolutely. you are saying you deserve to lose your plan because in your view its not enough. we care more than you do. its not a good enough plan. your house is in bad taste. ill knock it down. >> its worse than that, tucker. >> it couldnt be worse. >> let me tell you. if you dont have health insurance you have to buy it. you can say, i choose not to have it, but you show up and youre a burden on a health care system. >> okay. >> this forces you to have health insurance which is a good thing...

Millions on parody videos like this? wait until you see when congress tried to get answers on that. and hannity coming up at the top of the hour. >> it forces you to have health insurance which i think is a remarkably good thing. >> health insurance includes all kinds of add-ons that various interest groups lobbied for. im paying for rogaine and birth control whether i want to or not. its a transfer of money from me to you, from the poor to the rich. when we made our commitment to the gulf, bp h...

>> yeah. >> you could have stayed on your parents plan. >> i could have. >> until last year. the real problem with obamacare were talking about is also the redistribution of wealth. so yesterday the exchange was heated. listen to this. >> what this does is it actually forces you to have health insurance, which i think is a remarkably good thing. >> health insurance that includes all kinds of add-ons that interest groups lobbied for. im paying for birth control whether i want to or not. its a tra...

Jenna: some new fallout over obamacares we learn some insurance companies have found a loophole in the law allowing many people to avoid its effects for almost a year. jim angles live in washington with the details taking a look at this story. jim? >> reporter: hello, jenna. well, yeah, theres one thing the administration hasnt been publicizing about obamacare, there is a way for millions on the individual market to avoid signing up for most of next year. listen. >> so if you start your coverage...

Not sure because this is very new -- democrats are not going to allow that to happen. >> a.b., lets talk about the time line here and what we will probably see happen over the next 36 hours, maybe 48 hours. what are we looking at here and the likelihood of a shutdown now versus just a few hours ago before this plan was revealed, likelihood much higher? >> much higher. senator harry reid said times up. putting pressure on the house to pass the clean version of the senate continuing resolution. an...

Break moment. so how can we go forward and have a resolution to this? well, senate democrats today brought out their own countdown clock to a government shutdown, trying to put more pressure on the house republicans because the senate democrats will be able to pass what they will call a clean cr. so glossary time for everybody. continuing resolution to fund the government. so an extension of keeping the lights on and everything operating and clean because it wouldnt have any of those sort of chr...

$7.50 per passenger. some of us dont check bags. some of us dont make changes. thats the average. reportedly, the industry would like to get that number up to $20. so you can see theyre really gunning for the add-ons because we are not okay when the base ticket price goes up. when you see a flight, and it says $400, you think no way. if it says $300, but they sell you $100 in other things, we seem to be okay with that. they almost have no choice. >> its interesting, though. i was doing a compari...

End of that and theyll end up taking more in total benefits, in particular associate security, than they would pay into the system in the near term. so their argument is in the long term you have an imbalance. act wares say in the short term it will help the economy and social security. >> the bill is being written up and this where we get the ad addons, congressmen get a pet project added so they vote in favor of the bill. do you know of any addons we can alert our viewers? >> i dont know well ...