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People are calling representatives and hospitals saying where is my free health care? is it that people believe what the government tells them? did people believe the president? >> president has the bully pulpit hes been saying this is going to give everybody in america health care. we had 10 years of tax increases in medicare cuts to pay for six years of spending that spending doesnt kick in until 2014 on health care. premium increases start phasing in now. what people are going to get is not w...

People are calling representatives and hospitals saying where is my free health care? is it that people believe what the government tells them? did people believe the president? >> president has the bully pulpit hes been saying this is going to give everybody in america health care. we had 10 years of tax increases in medicare cuts to pay for six years of spending that spending doesnt kick in until 2014 on health care. premium increases start phasing in now. what people are going to get is not w...

I brought my little health savings account card. a lot of us have these. right now we can buy aspirin with them, robitussin, over-the-counter drugs. with this new bill you will not be able to use this card to buy over-the-counter medicine tax-free. youll have to get a doctors note, specifically, even if you want to buy aspirin with this. theyre trying to bring down health care costs that way. it will cost you more. the contributions that you make to this account, right now theyre typically cappe...

Send to the president once and for all his signature issue. dana bash, cnn, capitol hill. conservative radio host rush limbaugh is pulling punches and hes aiming squarely at an 11-year-old boy. it was one of the pictures of the week. remember this? marcelas owens was the young boy standing next to president obama when mr. obama signed the landmark health care reform bill. owens mother died after losing her health insurance, but his story became a punch line for conservative hosts, including li...

There were no gimmys today in that room. one of them was senator from iowa, tom harkin, chairman of the senate health committee who has spent his life working on health care reform, who was one of the most unselfish people ive ever met in my life. and i revere him as a friend and on behalf of this audience, and myself, senator harkin, good job, my man. >> ed, thank you so much. thanks for hanging in there and really getting the facts out to people. more and more thats what we have to do. get the...

Now, these are actually pretty serious questions. and its pretty clear congress has never passed anything quite like this. >> okay. explain how this lawsuit process will work. attorney general "x" files a suit where? >> right. go to federal court. >> federal court. the first level of court that would hear this would be -- >> theres the one question. can they get through the door? the lawyers call this legal standing. do they have authority to bring this case? i must say its not instantly clear w...

That said, democrats, as i said, will point to the things that start right away, the fact that you can put your kids on your health insurance plan until theyre 26, that preexisting conditions for children kick in right away, that you cant be denied for your children, that there are no lifetime benefit caps on insurance. these are things that start right away, a few months in, after the bill is signed into law. then you have the taxes, however, that start right away as well, the payroll tax, medi...

Now, these are actually pretty serious questions. and its pretty clear congress has never passed anything quite like this. >> okay. explain how this lawsuit process will work. attorney general "x" files a suit where? >> right. go to federal court. >> federal court. the first level of court that would hear this would be -- >> theres the one question. can they get through the door? the lawyers call this legal standing. do they have authority to bring this case? i must say its not instantly clear w...

Does and embraces the key elements of the senate bill including gardens nieuarantees,n be dropped and no lifetime benefit caps an allowing children to stay on parents insurance until age 26 and something that doesnt kick in for adults until 2014 but is a major selling point. >> over the next couple of years, phases out the denial of coverage for all people. >> and it has changes to make it more controversial than the senate bill. it raises taxes, $50 billion more than the senate bill and cuts me...

The individual mandate. the order by the federal government you megan kelly, peter johnson can and must buy a product called health insurance. first time. >> how -- >> i believe first time. it is a strong challenge. the cvo in the past looked at this issue and the legislative experts in congress have said this is unsettled issue with regard to an individual mandate. there is no constitutional precedent and there is a mandate under law and under the constitution for the congress to regulate comme...