from $5 billion to $23 billion. and that doesn t include any of the insurance. that s almost like five times, congressman. finally, and we re almost out of time, two weeks to go. they hope to get 7 million people signed up. they say they have 4.2 million. do you think they ll get that? because one study from avenue lar health organization says they ll get 5.4 million. that s 20% fewer than the number that they say they need. and what does that mean to us, to americans, if they get 20% fewer people in two weeks? it means that this administration is going to want bailouts for insurance companies and for this plan and the cost per individual is going to continue to increase. it really means we have to defund obamacare and replace it which a market-driven patient-centered system that use the private sector for so many of these solutions we re looking for right now. congressman jack kingston, we ll get you back again. two weeks to go. man, oh man. we ll see what happens.
o get ahead of this issue. they re not obligated to. the icann, which is the organization that is basically the web domain manager, has a contract with the commerce department until 2015. now, they could continue that. but there s been so much pressure globally. i think that s weighing on the obama administration. they don t have to do this. but they came out last week and said they are seriously considering it. yeah. what s the impact for wall street, or businesses? businesses, it s interesting because google, for example, came out and said this is going to happen, it s okay, we ll do it. but there are many, many businesses that are concerned about this, both for cost i mean, you just think about when you put a whole global organization, more fees, more regulation, that s exactly what businesses do not need. someone s going to make money if this moves forward. yeah. does the system work the way it is now? well, it s interesting. the internet, when it was first create
are uninsured today than there were when obama was elected president. so this has absolutely been a disaster because it s driven up the cost, it s driven up the premiums, it s driven up the deductibles, it s limited your choice of doctors, plans, access to health care. and now we re hearing from the same government that gave us this horrible rollout back in october that don t worry, we now have a new scheme and this scheme will be to make sure no one is making too much money and no one is losing too much money. i don t believe this government is smart enough to administer this. what they re trying to do is interfere with the marketplace. and as you know, the capitalist system is a lot better determiner of what the prices should be and the strong survive and the weak are weeded out. that s the way the marketplace should work. what they re going to be doing is propping up the weak insurance companies who have not run a good shop. some would say the capitalistic system hasn t
the eastern areas. we ve spoken to people from there who say they themselves don t even understand houp of these protests, these clashes between pro-ukrainian and pro-russian forces are provoked by russian agents possibly or to what extent they re simply organic. what is clear is that there is a problem in those eastern regions. eric. all right, amy, and we ll have much more on this at the bottom of the hour, what it means and where putin could be going next. amy kellogg live in kiev. jamie? this news broke late last week, that management of the internet could change, and it has many users, especially businesses, wondering what exactly might happen. it all began when the nous announced they had plans to possibly give up control of the system that assigns website addresses and directs other technical aspects of the net. all of it after pressure from the global community after the nsa surveillance controversy. while some critics say it may not affect your wallet, privacy