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Get more subsidy than they thought. same with premiums. the way we calculate, the way the system calculates premiums is turning out, first of all the promise they were going to be lower is turning out not to be true. theyre dramatically higher, particularly for younger workers. if you are young, your premium is significantly larger than you would have had before the affordable care act. people are finding network problems. they get their policy they get their coverage. they think they can go to ...

Medical facilities to help a health care system, strained by veterans of the iraq, afghanistan wars. republicans raised budget concerns, forcing a key procedural vote that end up killing the bill. >> there are problems with the bill. an extensive piece of legislation. it has many good elements. and a cost issue. at a time when our nation, owes close to $18 trillion the why so many on my side of the aisle objected to it. thats why i would object to the motion made here today by the senator from v...

Republicans wont pass in the house and that they will filibuster in the senate because they dont want to pay for it. look, senate republicans block veterans health bill on budget worry. this bill called for 27 new medical facilities to help a health care system, strained by veterans of the iraq, afghanistan wars. republicans raised budget concerns, forcing a key procedural vote that end up killing the bill. >> there are problems with the bill. an extensive piece of legislation. it has many good ...

Other kind of funding that republicans wont pass in the house and that they will filibuster in the senate because they dont want to pay for it. look, senate republicans block veterans health bill on budget worry. this bill called for 27 new medical facilities to help a health care system, strained by veterans of the iraq, afghanistan wars. republicans raised budget concerns, forcing a key procedural vote that end up killing the bill. >> there are problems with the bill. an extensive piece of leg...

Are dangerous? are there any downsides? >> were told there are no downsides, even if the person has not overdosed on heroin, youre not going to hurt them by giving them this drug. >> so why isnt it everywhere? it just seeps to me if youre going to save people, why wouldnt we do this across the country? >> theres a cost issue. some people might feel were just enhabiting these people. hey, dont worry about overdosing, you can just get this drug and come back ton life. a lot of people would say tha...

>> well, i definitely ended up spending more than i anticipated, but the truth is that i had never looked for insurance before this, so i didnt know what to expect. >> and megan, let me bring you in, and megan, here it is, the 22nd, and the deadline is com g coming, and why havent you signed up yet, megan? >> well, i have been looking for health care, and we have looked at the affordable health care website. but because of what we would have to do is that i e would have to go through medicaid be...

Issue that is providing you from the safety of satisfaction? >> i was told for united airlines it was not a cost issue or weight issue. it is that the tsa emphasis is on explosives on an airplane and not on a breach of the cockpit. thats their new focus. i dont know what study or risk-based analysis was to say we will only have explosives on an airplane. we know terrorists will look for weakness. the door can be breached in two seconds. >> i want to ask about the malaysian flight. you got the ne...

Crashing. this plane has just gone silent. >> right. and i think thats the biggest unknown that is worth examination going forward. the idea that you dont have deployable flight recorders -- flight recorders that send back its own signal, float up to the top if something happens with water, there is not more sophistication in modern aircraft to ensure in tragedy there is constant reporting and availability of data is a little shocking. >> it is. but 447 talks about that. 447 says there should be...

The airlines havent really adopted it yet and the authorities havent either. we can have simultaneous information being distributed on these planes as opposed to having to have the black boxes, but its really kind of a cost issue since we dont have, thankfully, a lot of crashes. but take two or three of the leading theories. one corrosion. malaysia air flies over oceans. highly salt water can corrode and cause a fatigue stress fracture in the hull. as we saw with hawaiian air in the 1990s or 199...

But it means that the president is going to have to acknowledge that this isnt working and go back to the drawing board. we would be more than willing to enter into that discussion about what we can do to address the high cost of healthcare in this country. because, that, for most people, what this comes down to. the cost issue. they cant pay the rent. they cant pay the mortgage. they cant pay their childrens education. >> they dont acknowledge if you send your lieutenants out here to say on tel...