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Individuals have more choices. it does with mandates so you are not forced to buy something the government wants you to purchase courses you have to purchase. you get the choice as individuals across the land to purchase the coverage that is right for you and your family. then in the medicaid system we say that the states need the flexibility to be able to provide the coverage that goes most appropriate for your constituents, your population. instead of a top-down washington knows best model. it...

More choices, to empower people so that they now will control their health care instead of this washington mentality of we know whats best and were going to tell you what you need. so this is a historic week and this is very exciting, particularly for someone who practiced in health care for over 30 years. >> so you made the point that your state, georgia, did not expand medicaid. that is true. first of all, ill answer that question for you that i asked. there are 111,640 people currently uninsu...

Repeal? [ cheers and applause ]. >> thank you, kati. >> so im sure you havent had a chance to read the entire thing, kati, but do you know how the new republican bill will affect you? >> i do. and i am very concerned about one thing in particular, which is i may be an error in this. there will be a 30% surcharge on people with pre-existing conditions if they have a coverage gap of 63 days. and that might not seem like a big deal for people with pre-existing conditions that dont have on going tre...

New republican bill will affect you? >> i do. and i am very concerned about one thing in particular, which is i may be an error in this. there will be a 30% surcharge on people with pre-existing conditions if they have a coverage gap of 63 days. and that might not seem like a big deal for people with pre-existing conditions that dont have ongoing treatment, but for people like me with ongoing needs, people who even with the aca protections have unmanageable out of pocket expenses, you know, for ...

>> all right. this morning -- i was like oh, we should do this kind of segment and then sat there looking at each other blankly. but then once we got going, we came up with some stuff. but i will save min e mine. im start with you. whats your first nominee for silver lining of 2014? >> the affordable care act, aka obama kaer. remember when the republicans said this is going to rip the country apart. it hant destroyed the country. health care jobs are growing, the coverage gap is getting better. ...

Sign up, thousands of americans who thought they had health insurance apparently still do not. "the wall street journal" reporting that many americans who paid their premiums are facing a coverage gap thanks to backlog and ongoing technical problems with the enrollment site. karl rove, chief advisor, deputy chief of staff to president bush, fox news contributor. how are you, sir, from austin, texas? you have a few things going on down there in texas, dont you now? >> a lot. bill: backlogs, techn...

In sickness and in health until obama care do us part. after being happily married for more than 33 years, larry and linda drain decided to separate late last year not because they fell out of love but fell into the coverage gap. like 162,000 other tennesseens, they make too little to qualify for subsidies under the affordable care act but too much to qualify for medicaid. that wouldnt be the case if governor would opt if for medicaid coverage in tennessee. so far the governor haslem declined to...

Precarious situation both legally and, more importantly, with his relationship with the general assembly. hes raising two issues there. let me take the legal one. have you looked at this and are you satisfied that there is a legal route to expanding this by executive action? >> well, were looking at that, steve, but certainly we would like to do this through the legislature. thats the way it should be done. you know, as you said earlier, we ran on this issue in virginia. the attorney general, my...

Chair committees to now it will go back to all white males who are going to be the chair of our committees. but the reason i am particularly furious about this is because senator puckett was a targeted senator. and it took a lot of money for us to get him re-elected. and most of us took money out of our campaign war chest to put into the senate democratic caucus so -- >> sure. so senator lucas, let me ask you, why do you think he resigned? >> he resigned because he thought he was going to get th...

Expansion. five others are discussing their options while four others created hybrid models. nearly 6 million americans are being denied coverage as gop governors and state legislators block these funds. lets bring back joan, james and josh. also joining us from miami is mary mcneal, one of the millions of americans caught in this coverage gap. mary, thank you so much for joining us. >> youre welcome. >> mary, as i understand it, you fall into this medicaid coverage gap. can you tell us a little...