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Provision that allows children or kids up to age 26 to stay on their parents plan. there are a lot of things the white house is continuing to tout. they have also noted that because they say of the affordable care act, the number of people without health insurance fell to a record low last year of 8.6%. so they sayhis is something that republicans are going to have to consider taking away health insurance from 20 million people if they decide to completely do away with this law. carol? >> all ri...

The affordable care act is repealed and wont be able to get the care they need. some of those folks, their health will get much worse and others will pay the ultimate price. we will see whether this ultimately happens. we are going to fight this. lets be really clear. >> ron pollack, thanks so much. >> delighted to be with you. still to come in the "newsroom" shes a woman, a muslim, an immigrant and says shes one of the silent supporters of donald trump. thats next. cough doesnt sound so good....

This decision which caught a lot of folks by surprise today. jenna: fascinating news. shannon. thank you. jon: lets talk about all of this with bret baier, anchor of "special report" of course. karl rove is fox news contributor, former advisor to president george w. bush. so, bret, has the d.c. circuit court here done what republicans have been struggling to do for years? >> clearly this is a big blow to the administration. its a big blow to the health care law. that said, supporters of obamacar...

Way that the house of representatives is going to go back and adopt language to the affordable care act that the president wants here. that is not going to happen. >> right. jon: so theyre stuck with what they passed. >> right. they are. i think, to shannons point, you could conceivably get favorable judges in the federal court system say it was congresss intent that these states that even are run by federal exchanges get subsidies. just to quote from ron pollack again, supporter of obamacare, j...

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...

Ignore the individual mandate, pay the penalty which is $95 in the first year and a guy who had health insurance is going to go without? >> yeah, thats a very good possibility, chris. >> steve, what about you? have you gone on the website? what are your thoughts? >> my situation is im going to have about $9,000 more out of pocket this coming next year just because of this change. thats $9,000 i dont have to spend in the economy anymore. thats a problem. secondly, im going to carry coverage becau...

>> youre saying you may ignore the individual mandate, pay the penalty which is $95 in the first year and a guy who had health insurance is going to go without? >> yeah, thats a very good possibility, chris. >> steve, what about you? have you gone on the website? what are your thoughts? >> my situation is im going to have about $9,000 more out of pocket this coming next year just because of this change. thats $9,000 i dont have to spend in the economy anymore. thats a problem. secondly, im going...

My policy had $3,500 deductible and paid 100% of everything. there is only four things it didnt cover. maternity, pediatric, dental, and mental health care, other than that it paid for everything. everything. >> let me interrupt for a second. this gets to one of the key points and i think one of the reasons people are so upset, ron. and that is steve happens to be a benefits specialist and financial planner. hes pretty sophisticated in all this stuff. whether its him or whether its cade or wheth...

>> youre saying you may ignore the individual mandate, pay the penalty which is $95 in the first year and a guy who had health insurance is going to go without? >> yeah, thats a very good possibility, chris. >> steve, what about you? have you gone on the website? what are your thoughts? >> my situation is im going to have about $9,000 more out of pocket this coming next year just because of this change. thats $9,000 i dont have to spend in the economy anymore. thats a problem. secondly, im going...

More, not less. >> clearly for those people who are ineligible, say, for subsidies, it could be that they would pay more. but these subsidies reach very deeply into the middle class, not just the poor. for a family of four, i think steven was saying, for example, that hes a family of four, for those families these subsidies reach all the way up to $94,200 in annual income. these are thousands of dollars of subsidies. >> steve, your reaction to that? >> ron, let me tell you something, weve done e...