i mmy lis is rehberger. here s what s happening. a hospital is on lockdown after a gunman opened fire there. a harvard undergrad student e-mailed fake bomb threats that shut down buildings. he did it to avoid taking a final exam. and tonight s mega millions jackpot is now $636 million. that makes the cash option $331 million before taxes. back to hardball. welcome back to hardball. this week michigan became the latest state to pass an extremely restrictive law barring insurance companies from offering coverage for abortions unless women choose a separate insurance payment. what s so extreme about this law
riders, an expert at the institute told us she does not know of anywhere where they re actually offered. so if you want to buy insurance, to cover the unexpected situation you would terminate a pregnancy for any reason, you re probably out of luck. now think for a minute about what the republican party is saying here. they are making it clear, they are quite willing to intervene in a private health insurance market, not to make sure people have basic package of care, not to control spiraling health care costs, not even to make sure that poor people are getting covered. no, they will intervene in the market in order to stop insurance companies from offering coverage for illegal, constitutionally protected medical procedure. a party that does that is a party that is committing political suicide. and if you think that is hyperbole or doubt that, consider this. even the right-wing governor of michigan, republican rick schneider, did not want his party to pass this into law.
know of anywhere where they re actually offered. so if you want to buy insurance, to cover the unexpected situation you would terminate a pregnancy for any reason, you re probably out of luck. now think for a minute about what the republican party is saying here. they are making it clear, they are quite willing to intervene in a private health insurance market, not to make sure people have basic package of care, not to control spiraling health care costs, not even to make sure that poor people are getting covered. no, they will intervene in the market in order to stop insurance companies from offering coverage for illegal, constitutionally protected medical procedure. a party that does that is a party that is committing political suicide. and if you think that is hyperbole or doubt that, consider this. even the right-wing governor of michigan, republican rick schneider, did not want his party to pass this into law.
that poor people are getting covered. no, they will intervene in the market in order to stop insurance companies from offering coverage for illegal, constitutionally protected medical procedure. a party that does that is a party that is committing political suicide. and if you think that is hyperbole or doubt that, consider this. even the right-wing governor of michigan, republican rick schneider, did not want his party to pass this into law. he passed a similar measure last year, saying, i don t believe it is appropriate to tell a woman who becomes pregnant due to a rape, that she needs to select elective insurance coverage. and as a practical matter, i believe this is a type of overreach. but he couldn t stop this, because it was introduced by a citizen s petition which got signatures from 4% of the voters. so the law is set to take effect after 90 days with the countdown starting tomorrow. but there s one thing that could stop it. if opponents get about 160,000 signatures before tha
administration knew millions would get canceled which is puzzling to me. why would he make claims he knew to be false on a massive scale knowing that it would eventually be exposed and the anger of millions would be deafening? key word there was eventually. if the website had worked as they intended on october 1, there would be a lot more beneficiaries to obama care to talk about. there would be a lot of heartwarming stories of people that had insurance for 20 years and suddenly had it. they believe they had far more gainers than losers out of obama care and the gainers would get public notice and attention long before the losers started complaining. interesting. next on the cancellation block are going to be workers. employers are going to stop offering coverage because obama care actually provides an incentive to do so. the cbo projects 20 million