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This was a core piece of the argument for why people should support the law. if you like your plan, you can keep it. the same people who use this individual insurance are entrepreneurs, people who need to insure themselves. >> here is the thing, mark. if he wanted to be honest he shouldnt have said, period. i want the 14 million americans i believe will lose their individual plans the to understand it is a risk. they can call their representative and tell them to vote for obama care or not based...

That hasnt changed, that your premiums hasnt increased, the terms havent changed you can keep it. lets put numbers in perspective. >> wait a minute. >> no, no, no. >> hold on. >> lets stay on point. hold on. its not true. almost a million people have been cancelled so far, mark. the estimates are perhaps as many as 14 million could be cancelled soon. >> whats key -- >> let hark respond and then you can have the floor, kristen. go ahead, mark. >> right. these plans that dont offer the basic prote...

Keep their doctor. yet the president went out as recently as 2012 and said if you like your plan you can keep it. meantime there is a regulation -- an irs regulation pushed by hhs, human services, that said estimated tens of millions would be dumped. mark thiesen from the american enterprise institute and speech writer for president george w. bush. this is it. it is one thing to say -- he said they were going to get to keep their plans, period. now this regulation shows that months after obama c...

Insurance in the first place. that exposes what its about. if you go back the to the supreme court argument over whether it was constitutional the debate centered on whether hips was something everybody would need and it was constitutional to mandate it. the question is was health insurance is same as health care? conservatives say it is not. health insurance is something that should protect you against risk. not be the mechanism of payment for every health care service in your life. >> you were...

Should have been considered insurance in the first place. that exposes what its about. if you go back the to the supreme court argument over whether it was constitutional the debate centered on whether hips was something everybody would need and it was constitutional to mandate it. the question is was health insurance is same as health care? conservatives say it is not. health insurance is something that should protect you against risk. not be the mechanism of payment for every health care servi...

Six times as many of the people dont have insurance whatsoever now. >> mark, he said, period. he said if you like it -- >> they cant keep it. >> i dont see -- >> i gave kristen the floor. go ahead. >> there is something critical in what mark said that opened the door to this if you like your plan you can keep it. if any piece of the plan changed at all then the grandfathering is thrown out the window. >> exactly. >> its a little tiny loophole that came fromys the law that i allowing the law to g...

Them. that will jack up rates or the insurers will say, im cancelling these policies. the president said, no, no, i will grandfather those in. people will be protected. here was the president february 2010. >> actually, any insurance you currently have would be grandfathered in so you could keep. you could decide not to get the better plan in the exchange. i could keep my acme insurance, just a high deductible catastrophic plan. i would not be required to get the better one. >> four months later...

Insurance now you have to buy insurance thats more costly and not as good. >> that has to be fixed. >> thats from a democrat, mark. >> imagine the calls to congress on january 1. if you are one of millions of americans who had insurance, saw your insurance cancelled, cant afford to buy it on the individual market because the prices are through the roof and you cant get on the website to buy it. you will call your congressman saying im getting punished? i get a tax penalty for not having insuranc...

Do? >> thanks for that, senator. now you hear senators and house members complaining. mark thiesen was a speech writer under george w. bush and a fellow with the enterprise institute. now its bipartisan. something will change. if the president signs it. the pressure on barack obama. >> yes. >> who said he doesnt want to change it is mounting tonight. >> it is. there are two issues. one is a six-week fix because whats amazing -- >> six weeks? >> six-week fix. they didnt know the deadline is febru...

Marshall, and from washington, mark thiesen, a former speech writer for former president george w. bush. has obama care been a total catastrophe, a complete catastrophe or a total complete catastrophe, one of the three please? >> im sorry, greg, i cant hear you. theres something -- theres something wrong with my audio here. its not a catastrophe. for crying out loud, twitter nearly crashed when it first started. its very typical when a website, and the fact im talking tech talk at the moment is ...