getting hurt. and that's what republicans are looking at, trying to help them. >> let's go point by point. but zeke, for the purpose of discussion, let's leave the legality of the payments out. it may have been rendered moot, because you don't have an underlying grievance to be held in that litigation. let's put that to the side. and let's talk about rick's two main premises. one, that the president did the right thing, because he had to force the hand of congress. and two, that this isn't really hurting anybody. it's helping premiums. >> so let's make three points. the first point is, we need to see the revoking of these cost-sharing subsidies in a long sdwens sequence in which the president is trying to undermine health insurance. he short ended the open enrollment period. he's reduced the advertising to get people to buy plans. he's trying to siphon off healthy people into these so-called association plans, and now he's eliminating the cost-sharing subsidies. former senator santorum is right that there's a group of people