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Transcripts For CNNW Sanjay Gupta MD 20110918



center in new york. he joins us on the show. good to be here. the numbers went up a little bit. they say it wasn t statistically that significant. does it surprise you it didn t go down or this is where it s at? it s where it s at until 2014 assuming the health care reform legislation becomes intact, when people will be able to get insurance who don t have it today. sanj sanjay, think of it this way. while it only went up 1 million people, which is lower than expected, think of 12 football stadiums filled with people that lost their health insurance last year. the unemployment rate between 2009 to 2010 was already pretty bad, so it didn t grow as much. if you have a job and you have cobra, it lasts for 18 months afterwards. you find another job, you can get health insurance there. what if you don t have cobra or you can t afford the premium? that s a big problem. most employer health insurance is substance d is subsidized by the employer. if you re unemployed, ....

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Transcripts For CNNW Sanjay Gupta MD 20110917



they say it wasn t statistically that significant. does it surprise you this doesn t go down or it is where it s at? it s where it s at until 2014 assuming the health legislation is where it s at. it didn t surprise me so much but sanjay think of it this way. while it only went up 1 million people a lot lower than people expected, think of it like 12 football stadiums filled with people that lost their health care last year. the numbers are still that big, they didn t grow that much because the unemployment rate between 2009 through 2010 was already pretty bad. and because if you have a job, if you have cobra it lasted for 18 months afterwards, if you find another job you can get health insurance there. what if you don t have cobra or you can t afford the premium? that s a big problem because you know most employer health insurance is subsidized by the employer and when you lose your job and go on cobra you lose that subsidy and in the stimulus act a few years ago ....

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