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Personal. so when mr. schumer -- leader schumer talks about the 75% of the people who get their benefits in the workplace, and that is so. they are affected by the affordable care act in that the costs -- increase in premiums is the lowest its been in the 50-some years theyve been tracking that. so it is contained cost. it has increased the benefit package. as the leader said in terms of no discrimination in terms of pre-existing condition, no lifetime limits, no annual limits. you can stay on y...

Provide us with health care is laughable. most people get it. >> sabrina, at least hobby lobby wont be forced to subsidize forcing people to do what they may not want to do. >> david, i think one of the problems is that the supporters on the right and critics on the left have made this a conversation about birth control rather than about health care. we want employers and employees to be able to negotiate freely. we want them to be able to decide if they want more salary, take home pay or strong...

Good benefit package and now they will. i think we have accomplished both of those things. a loft people signed up that didnt have insurance and many had lousy insurance and i think that will continue over the next few years until we cover almost everybody and provide a good package for people who are seeking. >> is there anything that they hit on or any nerves they such on that are legitimate and worthy of discussion? >> because of the presidents statement of how you can keep your policy though...

For insurance. and again, you know, i talked about the massive resistance of the opponents of the aca, and several states and about a third of the states, theres been legislation enacted to restrict navigators, to make it tough or even impossible for them to help people sign up. so what im saying is despite all these obstacles, millions of millions of people signing up is really a tremendous accomplishment. >> yeah, the focus all along, jay, has been on the problems with signing up, but not on t...

Dont urgent he -- urgent he need health insurance, and theyre so desperate theyre leaving the door open a few more days. >> i look at these numbers as, pardon my french, hiney backwards, and leaving aside the 318 million americans in the country, we focus how many are signing up for this particular law and the benefit package. but we dont concentrate on how many new are signing up, how many of them are young, crucial to pay for this, and speaking of pay, how many have actually paid? it would be ...

Teachers. >> we dont come here to be taken advantage of. thats all i have to say. >> i hold the board accountable forp lettifor letting this go a. >> you are an embarrassment to our area. >> i demand you step down because you do not represent us at all. >> angry words there. jose fernandez maze 653,000 dollars including an inflated benefit package. the california district is small just three high schools with 6500 students. at the meeting fernandez announced he would give in to demands to take a...

>> i should be bringing you news tonight of a new $21 billion veteran benefit package signed today by the president. but i am not because that bill died in the senate yesterday when it failed to get the 60 votes it needed to overcome a filibuster. and you will never get which party killed it. i mean, we all know which party is on the side of veterans, right? they tell us all the time. remember when they all headed to the world war ii memorial during the government shutdown to complain that the o...

With cancer that dont have health care insurance. people with debilitating diseases and they dont have health care insurance. nancy pelosi, obama and rahm emanuel shoved this things through congress and now were looking at the effects. whenever you put politics over policy, this is what happens. >> before we go, chris, when is it going the be fixed? employers sitting in the situation not knowing whether or not they can give benefits to different employees as part of their income and benefit pack...

They are not all the way to no one expected them to be all the way to their goal just yet. they are trying to make this argument as you saw human mustily reflected in that first ad that something bad can happen to you just because you are young doesnt mean you are invincible. whether people buy it, we will will see. thats the pitch. >> one of the other thing about young people i read one statistics of course we are drowning in statistics now. young people 79% have to get subsidies that means who...

Have an exchange which is strong, that is which negotiates with plans and has standardized the benefit package to a certain extent. thats opposed the federal exchange. so the california exchange has really used its bargaining power. it also has a much better procurement process in california. the federal procurement process is a nightmare. californias not as bad, and then finally, california is well funded. i think its important to hone in on this. take away the federal exchanges for a second an...