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Reforms to medicare and medicaid. i asked him about his plan to cover folks with pre-existing conditions. all right, on pre-existing conditions, its pretty clear to me that you are allowing some insurance companies to discriminate on pre-existing conditions, because you would have a special high-risk pool for people with pre-existing conditions. so i get on one hand you would have lower insurance premiums, because youd allow insurance companies to essentially discriminate for pre-existing condit...

Shes been looking at these numbers. what about that claim. 15,000 people a day being dropped from -- >> insurance. lose their insurance every day. we wanted to know where that figure came from. so the fact check desk -- >> youve got to go slow. try to roll that off quickly, you hurt yourself. >> we did a little digging. heres what we found. it looks like that figure was drawing on figures from the liberal center on progress that dated back from february of 2009. jobless numbers from grown from f...

When youre out of work. a december report by commonwealth fund shows roughly twice as many laid off workers were enrolling in cobra. bottom lining it, that 15,000 figure is probably pretty much out of date. when we look at todays figures with the increased use of cobra coverage im sure that number is a lot lower. >> so 15,000 might be out of date. but we really dont have a firm guesstimate even of what the better figure might be? >> right. and heres the reason why its so hard to chase a lot of t...

It. >> 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19 -- 19. >> shepard: thats the number of prescription medications terry carlson says she is using. she says she is not eligible for health insurance on her own. and her temporary cobra coverage will run out in a year terry says she has a disorder that makes her body unable to process bacteria. she says dating has been difficult. >> its also not easy to date and tell people you have a genetic condition that you could possibly die from. >> shepard: terry says she has bee...

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