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♪ welcome back to the first annual "all in all awards" show. all right, its time for our second award of the night. >> its the "all in undercovered and overcovered stories of the year" award. >> all right, what stories this year were over covered what were undercovered? you get to choose one of each. josh berra, overcovered and undercovered. >> okay, and both of these are partly my fault -- >> believe me, bro, i work in cable news, so there is nothing that doesnt get on me as well. this enti...

Second award of the night. >> its the "all in undercovered and overcovered stories of the year" award. >> all right, what stories this year were over covered what were undercovered? you get to choose one of each. josh berra, overcovered and undercovered. >> okay, and both of these are partly my fault -- >> believe me, bro, i work in cable news, so there is nothing that doesnt get on me as well. this entire segment is just invitation for self-contempt. >> okay. so, undercovered, medicaid expansio...

Subsidies, but there were only 12 republicans in the house who voted no on the farm-only food stamp -- >> exactly. >> so, you have a small number of principled conservatives who would say, no, handing out free money to farmers for no reason is bad policy and a waste of taxpayer money. five times as many were unwilling to vote for the food stamp bill because it only cut $20 billion -- >> and they wanted more. >> -- over ten years. >> josh, what is your worst quote of the year? >> my worst quote g...

Of conservative wonks. >> and of liberals. all think tanks say cut farm subsidies, but there were only 12 republicans in the house who voted no on the farm-only food stamp -- >> exactly. >> so, you have a small number of principled conservatives who would say, no, handing out free money to farmers for no reason is bad policy and a waste of taxpayer money. five times as many were unwilling to vote for the food stamp bill because it only cut $20 billion -- >> and they wanted more. >> -- over ten y...

Naern works -- anyone that works for a conservative think tank or a conservative in washington, theyll say obviously farm subsidies are awful. when you look at budget plans put out -- >> this is the consensus opinion of conservative wonks. >> and of liberals. all think tanks say cut farm subsidies, but there were only 12 republicans in the house who voted no on the farm-only food stamp -- >> exactly. >> so, you have a small number of principled conservatives who would say, no, handing out free m...

Like, then you will be able to keep that insurance. no matter what youve heard, if you like your doctor or health care plan, you can keep it. >> all right. >> yeah. >> was there a problem with that? i missed that. was i out that day? >> that was two years ago. >> no, i mean, obviously, what is wrong with this, its true for most people, not for everybody. you had about 5 million people whose plans in the existing private insurance market were canceled, which is a little bil built less than 2 perc...

Was i out that day? >> that was two years ago. >> no, i mean, obviously, what is wrong with this, its true for most people, not for everybody. you had about 5 million people whose plans in the existing private insurance market were canceled, which is a little bil built less than 2 percent of the population, but its 5 million people. >> on the receiving end. >> so thats a lot of people that can write to the "wall street journal" about how their plan can be canceled. >> i totally agree with josh. ...

0 coming to a close with millions of americans who have been condemned to the anxiety and cruelty and uncertainty of life without health insurance start getting it, and for many, it will be their first time. msnbc.com, for example, reporting back in october about kentuckian deborah wright, who struggled for 30 years to take care of herself without health insurance. she avoided the doctor because she couldnt afford the cost. "usually, if i had to go, id have to borrow the money," she told msnbc. ...

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0 midnight tomorrow night. that extension coming because of the overwhelming surge in demand. beltway consensus is that this has been a bad year for president barack obama, his worst ever, in fact. but while the politics of this year have been dicey, the years coming to a close with millions of americans who have been condemned to the anxiety and cruelty and uncertainty of life without health insurance start getting it, and for many, it will be their first time. msnbc.com, for example, reporting...