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Assistance. if you are newly insured, you will pay more, but it will be worth it. folks will be moving into a fully insured product and there may be a highier cost associated with getting into the market, but they are really going to see much better benefit for the money they are spending. lisa meyers spend a lot of time looking at this and joins me now. i want to pick up with two things. that kathleen said and he has done the press briefing, the exact same benefit. the reason they are going up is these policies are going to be covering more than they covered before. that's the biggest thing. ...

It's legal for the federal government to withhold federal benefits from same sex marriage -- married couples. the portion of the law that makes it okay, legal, for one state to not recognize the validity of another marriages is not up before the court. >> bill: it's just a benefit package? >> but the justices at the supreme court during today's oral arguments were just as troubled as you are apparently about duality of thought not going to defend the law in court but enforce it out on the streets. the justices said what is your test for -- they asked the government's lawyer today in the oral a...

It's legal for the federal government to withhold federal benefits from same sex marriage -- married couples. the portion of the law that makes it okay, legal, for one state to not recognize the validity of another state's same sex marriages is not up before the court. >> bill: it's just a benefit package? >> but the justices at the supreme court during today's oral arguments were just as troubled as you are apparently about duality of thought not going to defend the law in court but enforce it out on the streets. the justices said what is your test for -- they asked the government's lawyer to...

Government to withhold federal benefits from same sex marriage -- married couples. the portion of the law that makes it okay, legal, for one state to not recognize the validity of another state's same sex marriages is not up before the court. >> bill: it's just a benefit package? >> but the justices at the supreme court during today's oral arguments were just as troubled as you are apparently about duality of thought not going to defend the law in court but enforce it out on the streets. the justices said what is your test for -- they asked the government's lawyer today in the oral arguments, ...

Your healthcare plan. period. >> neil: but apparently we can't keep our healthcare plan. the company behind a study says that less than 2% of individual insurance plans right now provide all the benefits required under the law. something that critics say all along without bringing abbott and costello. that's weird, betsy. really weird. >> that was a whopper, neil. one of the president's whoppers elm if you like your health plan you can keep it. what the law actually says you have to enroll in the one-size-fits all government designed essential benefit package and it includes many things that t...