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Hospitals argued they would suffer significant harm by striking down obamacare in this case. when justice kennedy said he saw constitutional issues hospital stocks went through the roof. hospitals rose more than all other stocks on the s&p 500 index. so, yeah we must be humble at times like this. we cannot report things that we do not know. we cannot predict things -- thank you very much, theres the headline. we have to be humble about things like that right? we have to be humble in terms of pre...

Their homes or feeding their families. while the gop has been so busy railing against the affordable care act and opposing an increase in the minimum wage, they cant address corporate welfare or corporate tax loopholes that could save the government billions. theyve taken this revolt from governors a bit personally. now theyre crying foul and threatening retaliation. iowa congressman steve king told politico, quote, we cant have governors of these states gaming the system and thumbing their nose...

Health reasons. >> four years and seven days since president obama signed the affordable care act into law. there are 6 million more people with stories like those americans who have signed up for insurance through the affordable care act exchanges ahead of tomorrow nights deadline, proving weve come a long way from glitches and snags in a very rocky website rollout. just this month, 70,000 people enrolled every day. and in a final weekend push, supporters held more than 500 grassroots events ac...

Its time to run on it and not away from it. joining me today are april ryan, white house correspondent for american urban radio network, and jonathan cohn, a senior editor for "the new republic." thanks for joining me. so april, i want to start with you. you know, it was a pretty big announcement for the white house, i think it was thursday, that they were able to announce 6 million sign-ups with days to go. weve still got, what, until midnight tomorrow might. this is a good sign for the democra...

People getting insurance for the first time. people who had insurance but were paying a lot more for it. so, you know, what you were saying before, if im a democrat, im getting up there and saying, yeah, i voted for this. im the reason that all these people have insurance. im the reason that all these people are saving money. if you dont like what i did, tell me what youre going to do instead and tell me why you want to take coverage away from these people. >> i think, jonathan, just to follow u...

Close to what the affordable care act does. that tells me they dont have a plan. theyre not interested as a party in doing something about this. all they want to do is tear down obamacare. thats it. >> and yet, april, you know, when we take a look at the numbers, more numbers in that kizer poll, obviously the white house has to be thrilled. through your sources, 6.3 million. clearly theyre continuing to make progress in reaching their goal. at the same time, though, in that same kizer poll out t...

Respondents, supported it. 46 opposed. female are fine with the president taking executive action. >> and on both sides, both sides. and independents are fine. no. he is in a win-win situation on this. this is not only a do nothing congress, but i think i made reference to the fact that its a shutdown party. they shut down a bridge in new jersey. they shut down a government. they tried to shut down medicare. they tried to shut down obamacare. all they have tried to do since he has been president...

>> healthcare.gov is not secure today and nothing has really changed since the november 19 testimony. from our november 19 testimony its even worse. >> an alarming warning from a computer security expert who says the obamacare website is a breach waiting to happen which would have catastrophic consequences. >> as an attacker if i had access to the healthcare.gov infrastructure it has direct integration to the irs, dhs as well as third-party providers as well for credit checks. >> committee chair...

Finally tonight, the obama administration is marketing the affordable care act to youngser demographics, we have seen that younger people are not signing up for obamacare at least not yet. this ad aired in one late night show takes a bit of a different approach. >> >> hi im alex and this is my wife martha. and we are both approaching the big 6-o. we have healthcare issues to deal with. >> i take blood pressure medicine. >> and levitra. >> and martha takes osteoporosis and its not cheap. >> fortu...

Breach, and according to the experts, i mean, im not an expert, but i go by what they have told us who look into this, this system, which is open to everyone, millions apparently, have used it, is a gateway to irs, dhs, other agencies, and if that is not working in terms of security, then its a disaster waiting to happen. you know, she says this is an attempt by republicans, opponents, to bring down obamacare. well, if there are problems of this magnitude, perhaps it ought to be brought down. nu...