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Economy, small businesses, 100 200, 300 people, privately owned companies up until now had taken pretty good care of their employees? >> it is more of smaller companies that will suffer more because, there is also the cost of enforcement of keeping up with the regulations. this is a very complicated bill as we all know. every, you know, seems like every couple months a new part of the bill is implemented. it is designed that way. it is designed so that not everything is done at once because othe...

Signing up between now and then. i also think its important to recognize that were basically where massachusetts was in the first year in terms of statistics when it rolled out a similar blan. so i think the trajectory is somewhat favorable to the president, but really were going to need to see more numbers about who signed up, whether or not they had insurance before, how many of them bought insurance on exchanges. >> real quickly. >> real quick for us. theres one big event between now and nove...

Signing up between now and then. i also think its important to recognize that were basically where massachusetts was in the first year in terms of statistics when it rolled out a similar blan. so i think the trajectory is somewhat favorable to the president, but really were going to need to see more numbers about who signed up, whether or not they had insurance before, how many of them bought insurance on exchanges. >> real quickly. >> real quick for us. theres one big event between now and nove...

Massachusetts was in the first year in terms of stats when they rolled out a similar plan so it is somewhat favorable but we will need to see more numbers on would signed up and whether they had insurance before and how many of them bought insurance on exchanges. >> quickly, there is a big event to look for between now and november the insurance companies coming out with brotherjections for increases in premiums there people will way for next year. if that is a big number, it is a big problem fo...

This president, and from this white house. >> to what you were just saying, you would hope you would see folks at town halls saying to lawmakers who want to repeal the aca, will actually, ive gotten obamacare, im in the program, my friends, my family. but facts often dont change peoples minds. and i could see folks say, in kentucky, saying, i dont like obamacare, i like connect, not understanding its the same thing. important points the president may want to talk about, the 35% number you talked...

With a senior official asking these questions. you get an answer that they are unknowable. the question is, how many previously uninsured have enrolled? how many have paid? estimates are that 80 to 90% have paid. the answer to me was some of these folks havent gotten their bill yet so they cant possibly have paid. question, whats the breakdown of that risk pool so we know the young versus the old. dont really know the answers to that yet. we know that its got to be better than it has been when t...

Healthy people buy on price, only sick people care about networks and they dont want to attract sick people. >> you point out we wanted to get all these peopleç with preexisting conditions getting dumped from their health plan. you say we turn this whole thing on their head for 107,000 people. >> right. the federal government set up a risk pool. its been operating for about three years. these are people who were turned down by private insurers because they had health problems. 107,000 people s...

>> on exactly that issue, while the white house is not offering numbers in those internal issues, insurance companies and some private studies have offered some numbers. lets put those up on the screen. the administration said they needed 38% of the risk pool to be young, healthy people. so far it looks like theyre only a quarter of the enrollees. 27% of those who signed up were previously uninsured and up to 23% of the 6 million figure havent paid yet. senator king, arent those big holes in thi...

>> on exactly that issue, while the white house is not offering numbers in those internal issues, insurance companies and some private studies have offered some numbers. lets put those up on the screen. the administration said they needed 38% of the risk pool to be young, healthy people. so far it looks like theyre only a quarter of the enrollees. 27% of those who signed up were previously uninsured and up to 23% of the 6 million figure havent paid yet. senator king, arent those big holes in thi...

So many cancer hospitals want very little to do with the people who buy these exchanges on the obamacare. >> on exactly that issue, while the white house is not offering numbers in those internal issues, insurance companies and some private studies have offered some numbers. lets put those up on the screen. the administration said they needed 38% of the risk pool to be young, healthy people. so far it looks like theyre only a quarter of the enrollees. 27% of those who signed up were previously u...