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The lead attorney for the nuns put hit the way -- the government demands that the little sisters of the poor sign a permission slip for abortion drugs and contraceptives or pay millions in fines. the sisters believe doing that violates their faith and that they shouldnt be forced to divert funds from the elderly poor they serve to the irs. the plaintiff has asked justice sotomayor to block the mandate and the fines while they make their case many the federal appeals court. the government respond...

Sabotage or have an alternative? >> and thank you so much. we undoubtedly -- the fight is not over. well get to talk more about aca going forward. jay, marc, robert. who i learned used to be a deejay. i think next time you come back youll have to deejay for us. >> dont get me started. >> coming up, my letter of the week. thats correct. cause im really nervous about getting trapped. whys that? uh, mark? go get help! i have my reasons. look, you dont have to feel trapped with our raise your rate c...

Of implementation for the affordable care act at hhs and now a partner with the d.c. law firm mary and scalet. at the table, robert reyes, attorney and columnist for "usa today." jay, by your understanding, do the nuns in this particular case actually have standing? and is this different from the hobby lobby case? >> i dont believe they do have standing and it is different from the hobby lobby case. i hate to disagree with the little sisters of the poor. theyre the plaintiffs but i think theyre ...

And there is no going back now. with me now from washington, d.c., jay engoff, a former health and human services department official. at the table, marc steiner, raul reyes. ka trka trina vandenheuvel, and robert george. i love we can make a claim between light bulbs and health care. and i think that the light bulb fight is over. >> a little light bulb. jay, let me pull you in here. i think the light bulb fight is over if. is the aca fight finally over now that its i want plemted? are opponents...

And theyre really some of the things clay has pointed out numerous times. its really not having a kind of coordination and not having the talent together inside the government that is up enough on modern tech policies to be able to coordinate these things. you want to watch this stuff and make sure youre not dealing with people who are simply clever at doing the requests for contract bids and know how to file them. you want people who have expertise. but the rest of it is not the greatest concer...

The third is that hhs is also at the mercy of house republicans who control the money. and house republicans have given hhs no earmarked money for the federal website. hhs has had to cobble together money to come up with the website. again, none of that is to excuse the rollout of the website. it has not been a successuccess. those are factors which people should keep in mind. >> although, you know, perry, when i think about it, i agree with some of jays points. we saw the republicans in congres...

People are going to know what those varies tiers, the bronze, the silver, the gold mean. so i guess less nervous by everyone sort of looking at the tea pot and saying its not boiling yet and theres all these problems. lets have a little patience. this is the american health care system is the fifth largest economy in the world. >> yeah. and jay, some states are refusing now to set up their own exchanges. missouris lieutenant governor recently said that he hoped there would be active resistance t...

First three months, i would suspect that there will be glitches. this is 50 states, a lot of people signing up for something. and there are going to be problems. >> and in response to the website problems that weve seen, we did get a response from a senior administration official saying we are aware of the issue and are working to address it as soon as possible. now, for more on all of this is dr. ezekial emanuel, former special adviser for health policy to the white house and jay engoff who hel...

The health care law. jay, always good to see you, sir, thanks for being with me. >> thank you. >> the website, lets start there. website once again down this morning for several hours on this last day of enrollment. what happened this time? >> yeah, well this time, though, it came back up pretty quickly. considering how disastrous the rollout was in october and the massive resistance of the republicans throughout this thing, its really an amazing accomplishment that 6 million people have already...

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