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Supplemental. >> thats a higher deductible and more a month. >> yes. and nobody knows what will happen with the supplemental situation we have going because joh anna is medically fragile. thats the point. we had something that was working. it provided some government assistanceecause shes medically fragile. it was a state program managed from suffolk county. it was working. now all of that -- >> one last question. just to make sure, youre going to pay $1200 more. you have this uncertainty. then ...

Supplemental. >> thats a higher deductible and more a month. >> yes. and nobody knows what will happen with the supplemental situation we have going because joh anna is medically fragile. thats the point. we had something that was working. it provided some government assistance because shes medically fragile. it was a state program managed from suffolk county. it was working. now all of that -- >> one last question. just to make sure, youre going to pay $1200 more. you have this uncertainty. the...

Helping the american people. they dont think government should be in the business of giving people a fair shake. >> igor, isnt this the give-away that if republicans really did care about the 47 million uninsured people in this nation, they most definitely would have produced an alternative to cover them. >> yeah, precisely. and theyll point you to the five or six bills they have floating around, and all these bills say that if youre sick, and youre denied coverage because of your preexisting co...

Parallel with this state program that we know now ended up working out all right. "the washington post" recently did a fact check of some of the comparisons people are making of the new national law to what happened in massachusetts, and when they went back to look at those early enrollment numbers in massachusetts, they found, yeah, those early enrollment numbers were terrible, they were really, really low. but the most amazing thing, they were unable to find any news coverage of those terrible...

97% of people in the state of massachusetts have health insurance. massachusetts did not lose lots of businesses because of more people having health insurance, the overall cost of health care in the state stopped rising as fast as it had been rising. and not incidentally, a group of people across the state that is larger than entire population of the city of boston, which used to not have insurance, that group now has insurance. it worked in massachusetts. even though it started off terribly, i...

They consume taxpayers money, many argue the money could be better spent on schools and infrastructure. in california, donald heller who wrote the death penalty law in 1978 now says it has been a failure, the cost of our cyst temperature of punishment, any benefit that could be obtained from it. now i think there is very little or zero benefit is so dollar wasteful it serves no effective purpose. ron briggs, a republican who supported the death penalty law in 1978, in california, now says -- i t...

Things there is no way anyone is getting free insurance. when youre expanding it like this and not having healthy people enrolling in other exchanges to compensate for that, that is going to cause problems and its not sustai sustainable or possible for insurance companies to bear the burden. >> medicaid is a state program. feds saying state, state, come into obama care, help us. well pay 100% of those medicaid expansion costs for first couple years then decline into 90%. and every state head up ...

For these things. there is no way anybody is ever getting free insurance. when you expand it like this and youre not having an equal or higher amount of healthy people enrolling in the other exchanges to compensate for that, whether it is the exchanges for the high risk people or the people on medicaid, that will cause problems. it is not sustainable in the long run and possible for insurance companies to bear the burden. >> medicaid is a state program, and the feds basically said states, states...

One of the pillars of obama care. preventing insurers from denying care on the basis of pre-existing conditions. the texas tribune reports a state program for residents with pre-existing conditions is now obsolete. and the state is encouraging those people to enroll in obama care as soon as possible. meanwhile, over in kentucky, democratic governor steve bashir has a message as relevant to his red state residents as it is for republican leaders around the country. you dont have to like the presi...

National exchange has its headaches, no doubt babout it. but that is just one small part of the affordable care act, you take a look at the exchange, the things like pre-existing conditions for children. for parents, and guaranteed coverages, all of those insurance reforms are now in place. the patients bill of rights. and were also seeing the reduction in the inflation rate in medical services both for the government, medicaid and medicare, as well as for the private sector. so were seeing the ...