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That i can stay on my parent's plan now until i'm 26 and given that i have several pre-existing conditions, i am no longer barred from getting access to care that i need as well as the lifetime and annual limits no longer impact me. so pretty much the law in many of its most critical aspects affect my life directly. i'm very lucky. >> and you have some long-term health concerns that you're dealing with. am i right, abby? >> yes. i was born with a rare congenital disease and it primarily impacts my vision as well as my -- several other impacts but i have a shouldn't and i have to have brain sur...

Health care nightmares on a daily basis, just walking around the grocery store, people would stop and tell me literally heartbreaking stories that the affordable care act came to address. as a matter of fact, i believe that there are improvements that could be made on the affordable care act. this should be a public option. there are other things that we can look at to make the bill better but it is a giant step beyond what we had before and we've even seen medical inflation begin to trend in a more downward direction than before. and so costs, quality, coverage, it's working and we need to su...

The land. is that clear? >> the only answer to this is to repeal obama care. >> we can't count on the administration to be more forthcoming about the details of this scandal because so far they have been anything but. >> my question isn't who is going to resign. my question is, who is going to jail over this skcandal. >> somebody said, this is as bad as watergate. well, nobody died in watergate. >> let me ask you, abby, with you dealing as you have with your own health challenges and with this act what he it means to you, how do you feel when you ha hear these people in the congress talking ab...

Obama care. what are you doing to get the word out? >> well, one of the things that we're doing is using social media. just this morning i tweeted out a question to my constituents and asked them, hey, guys, tell me about your direct experience with obama care. no pontificating what is your experience with the affordable care act. and i got back really dozens and dozens of responses but i didn't have to go far because abby here has within a friend of mine for a while. i've known her for about a year now and she's a direct beneficiary of the affordable care act. so i could have just walked out ...

Mill ye millions on to repeal 37 times. more news that it's working. california premiums will cost signilp+t expected. republicans in arizona caved under the pressure from governor jan brewer to'cñr schedule a vn expanding medicaid and democrats are now planning to run on obama care in 2014. so while the gop is making noise, the president is actually working to make america better. joining me now is congressman keith ellison, democrat from minnesota. he's co-chairman of the progressive caucus and abby shannafield, a 22-year-old student who was born with the rare congenital and chronic diseas...