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People have not enrolled as they expected and we still have an affordability issue with regard to employment linkage. >> the big question with republicans, i remember covering the first affordable care act. >> right. >> and a huge problem for democrats was the sort of status quo bias. folks are scared about something new and uncertain when it comes to health care. you guys are on the opposite side of that status quo bias. can you look constituents in the eye and across the bell curve of the diff...

So the question is what do we do to make sure that it does. we take a market approach, which might be different than your approach or some of the viewers. what we say is, one, it was during the wage and price of world war ii, employment and health care became linked. and that really need not be the case. one insurance going where they do. so what we do is take a couple bites at the apple and say, wait, if your insurance goes with you, might we not approach the issue of pre-existing conditions a ...

Distant seventh in the most recent iowa poll and recently announced he will be spending more time there. meanwhile, floridas former governor also has a new clarification about his recent remarks on the iraq war. nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker reports that story. >> reporter: do you not think theres an affordability issue -- >> reporter: jeb bush under fire after making these controversial comments about the iraq war on fox news monday. >> knowing what we know now, would you ha...

It depends on my generation for participation. >> mine too. >> but were not signing up, brian. >> let me ask you this. have the two of you signed up? >> absolutely not! >> have you signed up? >> i dont need to, because of my business. heres my point. young people sign up for things last minute. we all know this. parties, anything we do, its always last minute. >> give me one compelling reason to sign up? >> i dont know, if you have a pre-existing condition, thats a very important concern. i dont...

Young people and healthy people end up paying more for something they dont need as often. as older people and sicker people. thats not one of them. thats, core to any insurance, national insurance system or nonnational insurance system we can conceive of. >> carl, it becomes very clear in your piece that you prefer, you would prefer a single payer system. certainly, as i would. many others would. your problem in this market, at $30 t you c $30,000, you cannot afford $1,800 in premiums. and then ...

Issues, but i do feel like the access to other kinds of health care and the abortion question have gotten so wrapped up together that women almost dont know how to make sense of the debate. >> i think what were seeing consistently is what women resent is people playing politics with their health care. i think again, were the largest family planning provider in the country. we see three million patients a year. we do more to prevent unintended pregnancy and the need for abortion than any organiza...

Jonas point about a better economy. maybe we get 8, 9% and mortgage rates have an impact right now one way or the other. >> ed, do you see any red flags here. without question. lets really call it what it is. interest rates are moving up on the 30 year mortgages for one reason, the panic that we saw over in europe had a flight to quality which everyone started coming to the united states and pushed rates significantly lower. were just seeing a little bit of an adjustment back. dont think for a m...

way ahead of mitt romney. snow flooding, wide weather across the country. well have a look at what else is on the horizon. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com big day in south carolina as people are voting right as we speak in the republican presidential primary. at a small ham house restaurant in greenville is the center of a showdown between mitt romney and newt gingrich literally. both candidates scheduled to arrive for breakfast, a meet-and-greet at the same place at the very s...

newt gingrich is creeping up in the polls after this weeks debate, but mitt romney is still the national frontrunner. today, the two battle it out over breakfast. both candidates will be in the same diner at the same exact time. >> see you at tommys ham house. >> tommys ham house, newt gingrich didnt know about it until we talked to him. we talked to tommy of tommys ham house live this morning. heres what he has to say about the excitement in his restaurant. >> i told you heres what he...

upper east side apartment where he had planned to live while fighting sex assault charges. but up first tonight, two breaking global challenges. the obama administration issues a new warning because of intelligence seized at osama bin ladens compound in pakistan. chris lawrence is live from the pentagon with more on that. chris? >> reporter: well, john, what weve been able to determine is that al qaeda thought the best way to hijack some of these oil tankers and really hurt oil and nat...