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These exchanges for millions of young healthy people tone roll. the law does contain some mitigation policies that, would you know, readjust the risk pool if it came to that but the administration is counting on young people to sign up. >> ed, if your mother came home and said this is what you should do, if you were 26 years old? >> if i were 26 years old i would listen to my mother. i would still listen to my mother. im married now. there is a competition perhaps. i would listen to both of them...

I think insurers are looking at this, how are we going to stay in business? because you will end up with a risk pool very bad for them. people now will not be forced to buy the product. this is the first crack in the individual mandate and you got to believe there are more coming. martha: i would imagine that theyre going to say, hey, remember when you promised if this got too onerous for us you would bail us out? that is where were headed. >> that is it another loss for the american people. mar...

Advertising over the next year. they thought they shouldnt drive people to an exchange. so you are beginning to have the machinery and the institutional support around the law begin to activate because all of a sudden getting somebody to the point where they might sign up is a good thing as opposed to a bad thing. were in a place where the law is running far behind enrollment expectations, nobody know what is the risk pool is going to look like, and in truth nobody will really know until march. ...

So you are beginning to have the machinery and the institutional support around the law begin to activate because all of a sudden getting somebody to the point where they might sign up is a good thing as opposed to a bad thing. were in a place where the law is running far behind enrollment expectations, nobody know what is the risk pool is going to look like, and in truth nobody will really know until march. because all experiences we have had is that people wont sign up for the most part until ...

Out or bails them out. because of the pobs you described the exchanges have become the equivalent of a high risk pool of very sick people, older people, people that cost more money to insure. thats not what the companies bid on. two things will happen. they will come to the federal government for help with the losses or next year they will try not to be a part of the exchange or they will dramatically raise deductibles and premiums so fewer people will sign up and more companies will need to be ...

They have include dispropargs natalie small number of the healthy young people they need for the law to work. that means the insurance companies have a different risk pool than the ones they bargained for. hhs and the obama care administration foresaw the possibility to some extent and guaranteed the insurance companies r a form of bailout or however you want to call it, if the risk pool wound up being bad for them. the insurance companies are ready to ask for the bill to be paid. we the america...

True question -- >> how do they goose procrastinators to help achieve their seven million mark by march? thats what the administration wants to see. >> the seven million mark is not a mark id be looking at. this is an old estimate, theyre not going to hit that. what they need to get is enough young and healthy people and thats about 40% to balance out whatever size risk pool they have. whether they have three million or 10 million, they need 40% being young and healthy. thats really what theyre ...

Is about saving peoples lives and making sure that health insurance is affordable instead of sabotaging it and trying to end it. what we ought to try to do is make sure it is implemented and make the changes that are necessary to meet the needs of the american people. >> all right, congressman rosa delauro from the nutmeg state, we appreciate your time. >> thank you. joining me now is upcoming, pending host at msnbc, ronan farrow. we want to talk about a bunch of stuff. i guess youre in the gr...

Tag," which has kind of a double meaning, because as we know, there are millions of americans who having had their policies canceled are now facing higher premiums and much higher deductibles, a lot more money out of their pocket. then, of course, theres the taxpayers end of this thing, where its going to cost at least $1 trillion over the next several years. >> you know, there have been misleading things, obviously about this program, but then to have the young girl singing "dont worry about th...

Tag," which has kind of a double meaning, because as we know, there are millions of americans who having had their policies canceled are now facing higher premiums and much higher deductibles, a lot more money out of their pocket. then, of course, theres the taxpayers end of this thing, where its going to cost at least $1 trillion over the next several years. >> you know, there have been misleading things, obviously about this program, but then to have the young girl singing "dont worry about th...