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Assistance. if you are newly insured, you will pay more, but it will be worth it. folks will be moving into a fully insured product and there may be a highier cost associated with getting into the market, but they are really going to see much better benefit for the money they are spending. lisa meyers spend a lot of time looking at this and joins me now. i want to pick up with two things. that kathleen said and he has done the press briefing, the exact same benefit. the reason they are going up ...

Its legal for the federal government to withhold federal benefits from same sex marriage -- married couples. the portion of the law that makes it okay, legal, for one state to not recognize the validity of another marriages is not up before the court. >> bill: its just a benefit package? >> but the justices at the supreme court during todays oral arguments were just as troubled as you are apparently about duality of thought not going to defend the law in court but enforce it out on the streets. ...

Its legal for the federal government to withhold federal benefits from same sex marriage -- married couples. the portion of the law that makes it okay, legal, for one state to not recognize the validity of another states same sex marriages is not up before the court. >> bill: its just a benefit package? >> but the justices at the supreme court during todays oral arguments were just as troubled as you are apparently about duality of thought not going to defend the law in court but enforce it out ...

Government to withhold federal benefits from same sex marriage -- married couples. the portion of the law that makes it okay, legal, for one state to not recognize the validity of another states same sex marriages is not up before the court. >> bill: its just a benefit package? >> but the justices at the supreme court during todays oral arguments were just as troubled as you are apparently about duality of thought not going to defend the law in court but enforce it out on the streets. the justic...

Your healthcare plan. period. >> neil: but apparently we cant keep our healthcare plan. the company behind a study says that less than 2% of individual insurance plans right now provide all the benefits required under the law. something that critics say all along without bringing abbott and costello. thats weird, betsy. really weird. >> that was a whopper, neil. one of the presidents whoppers elm if you like your health plan you can keep it. what the law actually says you have to enroll in the o...

>> because there is no tooth fairy, neil. when the guy required -- i knew it was going to shock you wereton the government requires -- attendance candidate offer more and more, to cover kids until their 26. eliminate annual caps on coverage, lifetime caps to make preventive care -- you have to pay for it and the government says employers can only provide the essential benefit package. >> that dot this mean for parttime workers? >> theyre going to be dumped into medicaid or have to make their way...

Have to go get it and the law said they cant do without it. this is it, i think a piece of >> a human tragedy . stadly, the poorest among us will be hit the worst. people are making decisions and the american pern is snart and they know how they run their lives and they should be able to make those choices. >> many are buying milk to stend their children to college and not buy insurance. now their insurance will be more expensive and less likely to be able to afford it . now pay a penalty . life...

Have to go get it and the law said they cant do without it. this is it, i think a piece of >> a human tragedy . stadly, the poorest among us will be hit the worst. people are making decisions and the american pern is snart and they know how they run their lives and they should be able to make those choices. >> many are buying milk to stend their children to college and not buy insurance. now their insurance will be more expensive and less likely to be able to afford it . now pay a penalty . life...

Pieing utili coverage for themselves and their neighbors where we could have have a catastrophic plan, a different subject, but this is not about insurance, this is about a benefit package, a huge, unaffordable, bankrupting benefits package that quite frankly, no one will be able to afford. last night i was talking to one of my patience, my own patients who told me she had talked to an insurance company the other day and warned that her $700 per month insurance policy pretty expensive, is going ...

Said they cant do without it. this is it, i think a piece of >> a human tragedy . stadly, the poorest among us will be hit the worst. people are making decisions and the american pern is snart and they know how they run their lives and they should be able to make those choices. >> many are buying milk to stend their children to college and not buy insurance. now their insurance will be more expensive and less likely to be able to afford it . now pay a penalty . life gets more expensive and they ...