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Consumers choice and flexibility in buying coverage. he voiced frustration that people are criticizing a bill that he says is already better than obamacare, why is it that fake news rarely reports ocare on last leg and insurance companies are fleeing for their lives. its dead. critics are worried about preexisting conditions and whether people with those conditions will have to pay more as well as medicaid cuts which could end up leaving millions without health care coverage. laura: any word ...

It would stop medicaid expansion and require those who are able-bodied to work. it would include refundable tax credits for those who dont receive insurance from their employers. it would expand health savings accounts designed to give consumers greater choice and flexibility in buying coverage and it would defund planned parenthood for one year, blocking more than 500 million federal dollars. >> our bill rescues families by focusing on lower premiums and putting people back in charge of their h...

It would stop medicaid expansion and require those who are able-bodied to work. it would include refundable tax credits for those who dont receive insurance from their employers. it would expand health savings accounts designed to give consumers greater choice and flexibility in buying coverage and it would defund planned parenthood for one year, blocking more than 500 million federal dollars. >> our bill rescues families by focusing on lower premiums and putting people back in charge of their h...

To keep, what are they going to do for people like me? >> reporter: first the good news. under the republican proposed american health care act, heres what theyre keeping. people like valerie cant be discriminated against for having a pre-existing condition. there will still be a ban on lifetime and annual caps. and her kids can still stay on their parents insurance plan until theyre 26. but the downsides -- employers will more than 50 employees no longer have to provide insurance. so getting co...

Then. i think we should just call ourselves the liars club. >> reporter: republicans are not backing down responding to a report which cites 11 million small business employees may see their premiums go up. >> not only is this another broken promise to 11 million people that will lose more of their hard earned money, its another slap in the face to our already hurting working middle class. >> the administration tweaking the law by now allowing federal subsidies for insurance purchased on the pri...

Another slap in our face to our lard hurting, working class. >> reporter: the administration now allowing insurances outside exchange sites. a new adjustments because technical problems blocked maryland and oregon from buying coverage online. >> the subsidies remain available no matter how you get your insurance and were making sure that they are working with states to successfully implement their marketplace. >> cover california announces that after a five-day outage of the website, more than 1...

When we say their policies were cancelled, doesnt mean they go wrought insurance. >> i understand that. i prefaced that, those six million cumulative who lost their coverage, theyre going to be able to get it back albeit at higher prices and theyre looking for new coverage but theyre down policies now versus the couple of million or so who feigned coverage. so ironically a law that was meant to cover more people, now covers fewer people. >> neil, thats not right. what youre -- people are buying ...

Them to sell their things and get a second job to make ends meet. >> the filmmakers of "out of the furnace" starring chris nan bail are feeling the heat. members of the native american tribe filed a $50 million lawsuit against the writers and producers of the film. members of the tribe says the movie makes false reme representations about the people who live in the mountains. >> they lack inexpensive plans for people making too much for financeal assistance. >> good morning julianne. >> they fou...

Days. the first of those deadlines is december 23rd. thats when people who seek insurance coverage through the exchanges will have to sign up to get coverage by january 1. then the second milestone is january 1 itself when the coverage takes effect. but the confusion for the insurance industry is a great unknown. this became even more evident on thursday when the administration exempted people who had lost their coverage from the individual mandate and provided them catastrophic coverage. its an...

The white white house says that is a half million people, but another major tweak like this puts them in a difficult position. >> what is important to understand is the pool of people who are covered in the catastrophic policies are separate from those in the broader market place. for people who are going into the exchanges and buying coverage, they are pooled together. if you take out young and healthy people and they buy coverage that is separate that will be everybody in the market place and ...