Against officer Darren Wilson. Grief and grievance. We will talk to the parents of a troubled teen aged girl who was shot to death inside a texas Police Station. Comedy and community the iranian who is bringing diversity to the stage. Part of our series race in america. We begin in washington where the Obama Administration session it is feeling more confident about the new Health Care System after todays arguments at the u. S. Supreme court. The dispute involves the tax subsidies for people who buy insurance on the federal exchange. If the be courting rules against the states, several of the justices says that will cause them concern. Lisa stark reports. With supporters of the Affordable Care act urging the justices not to strike down a key pillar of the law. I am receiving a subsidy too which is one of the things that motivated to get me, because before that i couldnt afford having health insurance. Reporter and opponent saying the administration is illegally implementing parts of obamacare. Im here to stand upper for parts of the law and clear statute of congress to spend billions of dollars from which their state opted out. Tax subsidies which help low and moderate income families afford health care, can only go to those in states that set up their own state exchanges, not through the federal exchange. They say the language is clear that the irs can only give credits through an exchange established by the state. Inside the courtroom Michael Carvin told the justices this is a strict case of the way the congress wrote the law. The focus on the four key words in enthuse this case, established by the state. Throwing out most subsidies would have disastrous consequences. Justice elene kagan. Solicitor general donald virilli. Cannot be the statute that congress intended. But conservative justice antonin scheascheesal yah. Scalia. Chief Justice John Roberts who stayed mostly silent, playing his cards close to his chest and thont kennedyanthony kennedy who questioned both sides. Create your own exchange or well send your shurnlings into insurance into a death spiral. Argued today that the law is crystalclear. This is not an ambiguous provision, this is a provision that provided subsidies to federal and state exchanges. State of virginia a state which relies on a federal exchange. Doug hurst. His wife spoke out of the court. There are millions who like doug and i are forced by the internal Revenues Service to either buy insurance we dont want or face a tax penalty. Reporter this is just the latest in a series of legal challenges to the forecast. Forecast. At one point Justice Kagan called it a liberal saga. t catos michael kahn on, and cei is funding the suit. Critics have argued this is just a way to pay down obamacare. I dont believe had a. More important what the irs is doing to take down the rule of law. But have made no secret about their disliek for dislike for obamacare. Do i not care how this is done. Whether it is dismembered whether we drive a stake through its heart. First mother jones magd and magazine or about wall street journal do they have a right to sue . The issue was raised in court today. It is unlikely the justices will dismiss the case on standing. Theyll decide it on merits. We tracked down doug king. And before he asked us to turn off the camera he explained his reason for joining the case. Its never about insurance it never has been its about the law. The government cannot make law and break law basically. I cant thats how you view it . Judge thats how i feel. What everyone is waiting for now is how the justices feel. In a number of lawmakers from both sides of the aisle sat in today. They lefned to the listened to the arguments in the court. Pressure is going to be on congress, to do something so that people dont suddenly find that their health care is not affordable. David. Lisa stark reporting in washington lisa thank you. If the Supreme Court does side with the plaintiffs in this case, virginia is one of the 34 states where people could lose the tax subsidies that help make their coverage affordable. Libby casey joins us now from virginia. Is searchyearold is not just learning her bach and beethoven shes learning to deal with an expensive medical condition epilepsy. It isnt something we chose it is something that happened to her. She has to have health insurance. Yes. She does. Right now lunas parents are covered by a program for unassured kids. The girls wont qualify for state program that means leun luna and her sister will transfer to her parents insurance. The family can afford coverage only because of federal subsidies. How much of a difference do the subsidies make in your bill . Right now theyre make 417 worth of difference. A month . A month. And next year if i have to pay for my kids, as well, youre looking at it would be making a difference of six 700 a month. The fear of having to suddenly cover that extra cost is keep lunas father awake at night. It would go into a panic because then it would turn out that would i have to completely reorient everything do i like i do, immediately, i would have to pull my kids out of school, would i have to add more classes or get a second job and would i have to figure out what to do with being childcare or my wife would have to start working more than she already does. Lunas family is more than 300,000 people here in virginia who could lose their subsidies. Across the country it is more than 7 Million People in 33 other states. It has places like the Charlottesville Free clinic bracing for the impacts. It really is going to plunge a lot of people back into not having access to health care. And do you smoke . Judy robinsons job is helping visitors to the clinic figure out whether they qualify for the subsidies. Youre going to qualify for fowfer 479 that the taxpayer will pay directly to your insurer. That means for jason getting insurance for the first time in 20 years but if the subsidies go away hell be forced to drop it. Its unfortunate. To have are Something Like your health care be the subject of political gaming and brinksmanship. We took that question to the republicans on capitol hill who are fighting the Affordable Care law. Any bridge has to provide a continuation that will at least provide basic health care for them. Theres no way anybody wants anybody to lose a day of health care. Senator hatch and small group of republicans are working on a temporary fix a bridge, if the Supreme Court throws out obamacare subsidies. Thats little comfort to lunas family. Sounds like a bridge to nowhere. For now the family is waiting to see what the Supreme Court decides and praying whatever hatches it doesnt descrups their lives disrupt their lives or their Childrens Health care. David if the court rules against the obama the family will try to come up with a plan but it woint get wont get legs from either the right or the left. It will be a mad scramble both loijtdlylogistically and politically. Libby casey, thank you very much. An organization that supports the Affordable Care act, he joins us from washington. Lets just suppose doctor that the Supreme Court throws this out and as libby points out that congress is not able to do anything, not able to get anything passed. Whats the impact on doctors . You know david im glad had youre asking this because i think the impact on physicians is really through the suffering of our patients. Were realize worried about families like the ones that your viewers got the meet in virginia. The father is stressing out not so much about the health of his children but the Financial Stress that his family is going to be facing. I know a lot of my colleagues are talking to families and learning more and more about families that are facing that false choice between making Financial Decisions and making is Health Decisions and finding out they cant do both and do right by their families. Would it force to you providing care to your patients and not doing it if their Health Care Situation is not known . I know a lot of my colleagues are trying ostrategize ways through the system and trying to prepare their families for the worst, by asking families to come in sooner for necessary lab work, theyre trying owork with hospital schedules and imaging specialist schedules to try get families ohave those studies done sooner families to have those studies done sooner than later so they swroants to deal with an unfortunately Supreme Court ruling. But in case of things going unfavorably they dont want these families to miss out on Important Health care. The lack of certainty that the Affordable Care act has had for three years how does this sort of limbo hurt Business Planning in terms of that side of running a medical practice but also the medical innovation that doctors depend on. You know i think that when it comes to trying to run a practice youre absolutely right. That predictability is important because thats very much part of the doctorpatient relationship. In primary care we depend a lot on establishings establishing a long term relationship with our patients. Its very hard to do that when we are not 100 sure how an Insurance Company is going to be treating a familys health care bills. When were not 100 sure on whether the government is actually going to back us up when were trying to do right by these American Families and provide them health care. So that unpredictability makes it extremely hard to do teen basic management running a practice and taking care of our patients. When basic scheduling is this much of a luxury it reality really, really shunt. Dr. Shriram thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. Video captured aftermath of attack bloody mark lipper leaving an arts center in seoul. He was giving a lecture when a man cut him with a razor blade. Injuries are not life threatening. Man apparently shouted no drills for war relating to military examiners. An officer who shot Michael Brown will not be charged by the justice department. The department issued a scathing report on racial bias expensive force and racial bias by ferguson police. Ashhar quraishi is live in ferguson. Good evening david, for a number of ferguson residents the department of education is part of the targeting they said they suffered through for years. Something the attorney general himself did not mince any words. This investigation found a community that was deeply polarized. In a scathing announcement attorney general eric holder pointed out ferguson, calling it the catalyst that erupted last summer. Of course violence is never justified, but seeing in this context, amid a highly toxic environment defined by mistrust and violence, spurred by illegal practices its knot difficult to imagine how a single tragic incident set off the city of ferguson like a powder keg. Details of the report leaked yesterday but today the city responded. These actions taken by these individuals are no way representative of the employees of the ferguson. The six month investigation found that officers routinely stopped people without suspicion, made arrests without probable cause black one of the most striking issues according to the department of education was a doj mostlyfor minor violations. Its sad that it had to take an outside federal entity to validate whats going on. This is not a secret to anybody in this region especially those living with this reality. No one has had the courage or the wherewithal to actually fix it and thats what were being faced with now. The doj laid out changing policing and Court Practices improving training and oversight, ending bias, and race as a means of collecting fines. Relationships between citizens and police. Three individuals were placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. One has since been terminated and the other is awaiting a result of internal investigation. The city is in the process of hiring two new officers. Racial makeup of those new hires will be known sometime next week. Mandatory diversity training as of december 31st, 2014. Some officials have called for a complete change of leadership. But police chief tom jackson told al jazeera he had no intention of resigning. Im still here. We have a lot of work to do but weve done a lot coming up to this so theres a lot of things that are left undone. I originally came here with the intent to stay at least five years. That comes up in march and, you know, im constantly evaluating my future but right now i want to finish up what weve got started here. Do you think eurl stay . Iyoull stay . Do i. The parents of Michael Brown were saddened that the department of justice did not have enough evidence to charge Darren Wilson with the death of their son. David. Lawrk, thank ashharashhar quraishi, thank you. Whether her life could have been spared. The search to the worlds funniest person in our series, race in america. Police in longview texas are under fire and now under investigation over the shooting death of a 17yearold girl inside a Police Station. Video of the incident went public. Adding to the controversy, the girls family said she suffered from Mental Illness. Hdges withheidi zhoucastro with the first of our report. Heidi. Her parents say she was asking for help. Police say they were justified in killing her. Now troubling questions remain. Who was this young woman and could her death have been prevented . Her last recorded words captured in the afterhours phone captured night the lobby phone. I need some help. After, the 17yearold charged them with a knife. Who was this young woman . What brought her to the Police Station and what troubles was she seeking help to escape . Almost all of so many pictures of her were like that right there just you know, just peace. Thats our baby. Eric and beth said since their daughter was small she was happiest carrying for others. Every day when she would come back from school she would pick a flower for me, and she would pick me a fresh flower every day, because she knew i liked flowers. She was the middle child, did well in school and seemed mature beyond her years. She loved to have discussions. She loved to listen like news stories on radio public radio and discuss them. Her parents say you Christina Christina had many friends, eventually tired of school and decided to leave school early eerng ged earning a ged at age 17. Would you say she was different than the typical teenager . Pretty much. In many ways. A battle with Mental Illness dating back years. What was she diagnosed with . We dont want to disclose any diagnosis at this time. But she was being seeking treatment for. According to a previous interview given by an aunt, to think progress, christina had struggled with depression since her birth mothers death at age 4. In recent years ago christina was hospitalized at least twice following suicide attempts. Christinas parents would not comment but said their daughter was hospitalized during her teens. What were her ups and downs like . She was very motivated when she was up, reaching out to everybody. And down was just sheltered. Sheltered yeah. Kind of like the typical teenager. Thats what i was going to say, Mental Illness versus just normal. Bit late November Christina was out of the hospital and living with her grandparents in longview 350 miles from home. She was trying obe on her own, she was going to turn 18, she had dreamed wanted to go out and explore. Do you think she was at a good point when she left home . Very positive, yes she was feeling positive. Christina said . Had just landed a job at a burger joint. She had texted me and said mom im so excited about my future. That future would be short two days later that feeling was short. She sent her a text. She said mom i love you i said i love you too. A typically text. Her parents say they dont know what was said but sessions usually ended positively. They asked when she came out of counseling, or the hospital and she did. But this time, something wasnt better. Just two hours after the therapy session ended you Christian Christiana entered the Police Department. Nobody knows why. Do you think she could have been in an incoherent state at the time, something could have happened between counseling and two hours later . I knew she was callings for help. I think that was the primary motivation and that was the whole reason she walked in there. Up next, the fatal confrontation inside that Police Station. What the video shows and what the department is saying about it. Hes leaning against her holding her and now 22 seconds pass with her not moving. Why doesnt he put her in handcuffs then. Well, hes seeing the knife. You got to remember hes seeing the niefer knife. Why does that mean you dont put someone in handcuffs . I cant speak for him. Questions of accountability coming up in part 2 of our specialty report. Our commercial report. Special report. Hello everybody this is dges al jazeera america. Im david schuster, in new york. John siegenthaler is on assignments. This hour. We will ask the department why this troubled teenager had to die. On skid row how a Controversial Police killing in los angeles is shining a light on dark corner of unseen you america. Plus race in america iranian jewish jamie masad talks about putting laughter and diversity in the spotlight. Weve been telling you the story of christiana quana a mentally ill young woman and her death in texas. The