or even your health insurance as the president promised after a report suggests that two major u.s. employers are launching a radical change to their employee coverage. but we have to pass the spill so that bill so that you can find , we have big dreams.
charity, et cetera. i don t think this would end up being less than their insurance premiums. gregg: let me point a couple examples to you. ave maria university in florida, they dropped their insurance coverage. so they will pay the penalty. fransiscan university in ohio have dropped their coverage as well. there are a bunch of others who say we can t violate our religious beliefs so we ll drop our coverage. gregg, the groups you named are universities. i m not sure the same rules would apply to student coverage as it would be to employee coverage. there is still some sifting that needs to be done to that. gregg: the bishops rejected a compromise put forward by president obama in february. would have insurance coverage provided by insurance companies and not the catholic employers. to be clear there is no compromise. frankly the obama administration now has put out an advanced notice of proposed rule making. so an initial regulation
situation we had before the healthcare reform act was passed where premiums were going up, 15, 20, 25% a year. businesses were screaming, please do something. i can t afford to maintain coverage. they will drop employee coverage again as they were doing and continue to do. i think it would be a disaster politically for republicans the supreme court overturns the law. you refer to your own state, and indeed i was checking and over 650,000 without health insurance including over 85,000 in your own district. i mean, what will it mean for states like yours if this law is simply overturned? again, it is going to be a human disaster. because these people will now, under the affordable care act. of them will be covered by commanded medicaid and they will be back out in the cold which means our emergency rooms will continue to be flooded with people who don t have insurance. it will raise the cost of
the right. a new television ad that labels him as a fake. why? because he s a fake. while i was fighting to save the olympics you were fighting to save the bridge to nowhere. we re going to stay with cnn, full highlights from last night s republican debates live from phoenix in just a moment. and gas prices have jumped again. up 3% three cents, rather, overnight, according to aaa. average is $3.61. it is still going up. economists say the gas could jump to 4 or even $5 a gallon by the summer. you re going to hear from president obama on gas prices and energy policy. that s happening later today. president obama is apologizing for the burning of korans by nato troops in afghanistan. now, this incident set off protests across the country. after again president hamid karzai said president obama sent a letter calling the burning an inadvertent error. he also promised to take steps to avoid any reoccurrence. two u.s. troops were killed by someone wearing an afghan army
costs of employee coverage. those are actually retroactive to january 1st, unlike most of the new measures in the health care reform bill, which phase-in over time. in june, for instance, let me give you a timeline, in june, the small business credits go back to january. in june, the feds will set up a temporary, high-risk people for sick people that can t afford coverage. that s a big development. in september insurers will not be able to turn away children with pre-existing conditions and there won t be any more lifetime caps on insurance payouts and the $250 is a check that seniors will get to help pay for medicine, prescription medicine, until the medicare doughnut hole is closed. next year, 2011, seniors get more help. a 50% discount on brand-name prescription drugs to help close that gap known as the doughnut hole. they pay for som your prescription drug coverages and then there s a hole and then they pay for the rest of it. all right, wait until 2014, that s when some of the b