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Service personnel and their pay. now, i know their pay has gone up more than it has in the average private sector for certain workers in the past few years. but it is not that high, pete. the average pay is $45,000 a year for a single person. and married with two children, $49,000. so they want to cut that. and they want to cut commissaries. but the question i have for you is how does that play when you see stories like our lead story where you have the feds just doling out checks to the insuran...

And one of the errors were talking about is not having insurance when they think they actually applied and have coverage. >> and that doesnt even count the millions who dont have insurance and know it because they cant get on the website. dan, thanks, well talk to you again. >> thank you, megyn. >> joining me now, brit hume, our fox news senior political analyst, what a mess. >> well, this is the website and the system that was not finished. so theyre trying to find a way to work around it. it s...

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Procedure in january to find out the hard way theyre not insured at all? >> yes, that is definitely a concern, prior to the fixes that cms issued over the weekend to fix the platform. there was a lot of concern about missing enrollment files that had errors. and to your point, come january 1st of 2014, there could be consumers that go to the doctor or the hospital thinking theyre covered and theyre not. >> i mean, have you ever seen anything like this, dan? this is not -- most of us dont live ou...

Seen a growing report on the pentagons need to cut budgets. and suggestions that our military families should pay a significant part of that price. combat war veteran, pete, good to see you. >> thank you. >> there are at least two propos proposals now on the table to try to find a trillion dollars in cuts. and one is to cut the pay of our military, and one is to basically cut the place where they go and they buy things like food and supplies. >> the commissaries. >> you dont need that, and so le...

Controversial? >> well, again, there are certainly circumstances when previous presidents have exceeded their authority under the law. and it is the responsibility of congress, in not a partisan way, but a bipartisan way to put a check on that. and the hearings we heard today are a part of that. >> is there something you can do about it? >> it is about sun light, about cutting off funds. it is about lawsuits, changing the law so that members of congress and the congress itself can have standing ...

Controversial? >> well, again, there are certainly circumstances when previous presidents have exceeded their authority under the law. and it is the responsibility of congress, in not a partisan way, but a bipartisan way to put a check on that. and the hearings we heard today are a part of that. >> is there something you can do about it? >> it is about sun light, about cutting off funds. it is about lawsuits, changing the law so that members of congress and the congress itself can have standing ...

Seen a growing report on the pentagons need to cut budgets. and suggestions that our military families should pay a significant part of that price. combat war veteran, pete, good to see you. >> thank you. >> there are at least two propos proposals now on the table to try to find a trillion dollars in cuts. and one is to cut the pay of our military, and one is to basically cut the place where they go and they buy things like food and supplies. >> the commissaries. >> you dont need that, and so le...

Lost their insurance. it was pretty strong. well, think about the reaction to that problem. it was likely to be equally as strong. we dont know how many people it affects. but one estimate today is a third. that is a big number. so this illustrates one of the political headaches here, megyn that makes this such a nightmare, which is a lot of the problems are still out there waiting to happen. >> looming. but the administration, the president came out today and said the law is working. it is not ...

Payments. oh, joy. so its basically on honor system? >> basic thing to understand is that its not a bail out of insurers but president. two weeks ago we heard from one of the top it officials is that system to pay insurers hadnt been built yet. >> 30% has not been built. we talked about what part is that? so now, theyre saying how are insurance going to get paid? this is the solution? >> were going to trust the insurance companies to say i think you owe me x amount? >> what is the alternative? i...