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Once you have the politics of spite, which, yes, the supreme court did say that it was constitutional, but, again, you have hundreds of thousands of people in georgia, millions of people across the country, being left out of the access to health care, that congress agreed that they should have. you know, that is the point at which, you know, it really becomes -- both leaving certain people out of the political process, low-income people, people who have fallen to this coverage gap, in states whe...

Conditions. 5 million folks are getting health care and the reason why we still have insurance coverage gap has everything to do with the fact that folks qualify for medicare but their state didnt implement it or expand it. >> you mention five million and what we said out of those five million people three million estimated to be the ones without insurance. the rest of them had insurance and lost it. so the numbers dont add up. and the government is saying obamacare, president obama himself sayi...

As a consequence of that youve got these people who cant qualify for the if he ral subsidies that are offered under obamacare but they cant get medicaid either. so its a problem and it is just exactly what you expect when government tries to step in and take over from the private sector. jon: yeah. >> a sixth of the economy. jon: you say the real problem in terms of a coverage gap is the number of people who have just outright lost their policies, their private health care policies and have not ...

A long time and getting the rowels in place of how to enforce the law is harder than even critics expected. >> chris, on the obama care beat for us. thank you for explaining that it. >> another problem out of obama care. millions of low income americans and yet they make to which to qualify for medicaid. coverage gap. melissa francis, good day to you. >> good day. >> the gap, explain it. high numbers. >> it is the slice of people, they make too much money to qualify for the state program and not...

Some will get subsidies to make up the difference, but appare apparently not enough to get young americans off the couch. a lot of coverage, not enough cash to pay for the coverage. this law has some great things in it. the biggest, i think, is coverage for pre-existing conditions. the second biggest, removing the lifetime coverage gap. that means even if you have been sick before and you get sick again, you never to have worry about being covered. trust me, as someone who has dealt with more th...

Throughout some 5 million nationwide because they live in red states that declined to expand medicaid and those that declined, most are more conservative states in the south, midwest and northern rocky mountains that voted against president obama. about 20%, sir, of your state is uninsured and some 130,000 fall into the medicaid coverage gap as well. so will you and your colleagues continue your efforts to try to thwart obamacare or will you help to punish your governor to help those in the stat...

Families do when they show up at the hospital or need to reorder a life saving prescription on new years day and the obama care plan is not yet available. this coverage gap is real. >> this is a big deal to quote joe biden. >> the president also appealed to another key part of his base when a youth summit gathered at the white house. mr. obama answered critics who says he has been avoiding an affordable care act nickname. >> i know people call this law obama care. thats okay. because i do care. ...

Conservative think tank says wisconsin has no coverage gap. >> people ten to characterize republicans, the fact is wisconsin has covered many more people than delaware has. delaware is not a marchly poor state but it is pretty clear that theyve taken care of a large he enough of poor people. f i dont know. im not being argumentative but the question is when youve taken them off medicate and put them into the obama care, is the effect of that. some of them may not be able to afford the premiums a...

Why would you not take that to help insure people currently uninsured. >> you look at the keiser family found ails, the walk post did an editorial the other day of the coverage gap, we were the only one that didnt take medicare. every state is different. in our case, we did something different from the states that did take or didnt take. we were able to put everybody on poverty is covered. everybody above poverty goes into the free market. we dont expose the taxpayers. for anybody that would say...

Quarterbacking or legislative efforts they undertake to block the president, that they can really affect the outcomes for people and even obama might get blamed for those, its really outside forces contributing a great deal. >> i mean, outside forces of all sorts, theres sort of republican noise machine making it hard to understand what is actually happening. they are sort of driving the narrative right now making people think about several million who have been canceled and will be canceled. bu...