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Ahead and have to use that healthcare plan which is doing nothing short of driving healthcare premiums higher. alisyn: this is from consumer watchdog. this shows -- you will remember massachusetts was the model for the national healthcare reform plan. and this says in massachusetts, a family plan, the premium for healthcare for a family plan has -- is up to 19.8%. nationally it's up 14.5%. so in massachusetts it has risen higher than the national. this seems like the story of what's to come nationally. >> reporter: 2006 is when massachusetts implemented the plan, and guess what? massachusetts ...

Millions of gallons of water from the swollen mississippi river to spare cities downriver like new orleans and baton rouge. the water has to do somewhere and you're looking at it now. this is morgan city, louisiana. where people living in low-lying areas are getting out. with nine states affected, it is the biggest flood to hit the southern mississippi since 1937. let's find out more about the states and the floodwaters right now to our meteorologist jen delgado. jen? >> you're right. we're talking about record flooding across parts of the south, all along the mississippi river. we're still wa...

Up, the underemployment, the unemployment rate, close to 20 percent of the work force bill: look at that. that's 20 percent. all right? and there are the figures we just mentioned, 10 percent compared to 9 percent. you said something about gallup, by the way. they're making phone calls. do they have different -- different questions than the government? >> no, they ask how long have you been working, are you working full-time, part-time, would you like to be working full-time, what are you doing in the part-time job, are you an attorney that's bagging groceries at walmart, and they put that int...

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Jobless people increases. this is a problem in the black community. only 19.8% of black teenagers have a job. or looking for one. that is because of those high in wages. how do we allow people to ascend the ladder of opportunity rather than giving them everything and keeping them dependent? [ applause ] >> so, just to be clear, you would not raise it? >> i would not raise it. >> thank you. we will be checking back with the you guys to out the night. we will be on for two hours. i am joined by andrea mitchell. steve schmidt was a strategist in senior adviser to john mccain's 2008 campaign and m...