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Exchange, health care.gov should be allowed to receive subsidies under the law. a decision is not expected until june. today, we wanted to look at how the law impacted the number of insured americans and how that's changed since the law's implementation. guess what the uninsured rate is down across the board. nationally it is down nearly 3.5 points 17.3 in 2013. and now 13.8%. it is down in 49 states in the past year. let's look at some of the biggest reductions. arkansas and kentucky. the percentage of uninsured in arkansas dropped from 22.5 to 11.4%. basically in half. and kentucky, from 20....

Insured americans and how that's changed since the law's implementation. guess what, the uninsured rate is down across the board. nationally it is down nearly 3.5 points, 17.3 in 2013. and now 13.8%. it is down in 49 states in the past year. let's look at some of the biggest reductions. arkansas and kentucky. the percentage of uninsured in arkansas dropped from 22.5 to 11.4%. basically in half. and kentucky, from 20.4 to 9.8. both are deep red states with high poverty rates and in 2014, both had democratic governors support of the law. like the rest of the top ten states with the biggest drop,...

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>> short people really got a lot of pent-up anger, don't they? don't make him mad. >> judges we need the score for mighty mouse. who just went. we have a 9.5, a 10 plus a 9.5, 9.8, 9.8, so the winner is -- who's first? that's all i want to know. montgomery. please come up to the mike. >> i did very good, came in second place. that was good. some people say i got cheated but it was -- no, that was very great. it was fun all the way around. i'm very happy. this is my first time entering. maybe next year i'll come back and win it. i'll put together some more material, some better material, and tr...

>> hi. >> how bad is it going to be on the premium front? >> well, it could be really bad in a few states, you could see increases well into the double digits, but i think one thing we will see is solid, big, but not huge increases, because obamacare has a provision in it that if you -- the insurance company raises the rate by more than 10%, you have to make a regulatory explanation for it. i think we're going to see right below 10%. 9.8%. that's going to be year after year increasing premiums. >> that's not the way it's supposed to be. there's supposed to be $2,500 savings for families across...