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The good news is that they can move into an exchange if their income rises, goes up a little bit. however, it's up and down and up and down with a lot of these people and their income. they may move from medicaid onto the exchange and then their income may drop and they may have to go back to medicaid. so that's what the churning issue is. and it's kind of a nightmare. it will be somewhat of a nightmare for some of the states. >> ezra, this is one of the things, as you know, that single payer advocates like me and others -- one of the reasons we're single payer advocates is look at this thing ...

Past churning was very common with medicaid people. they would go up. they'd bow down in their income. and they'd churn in and out of medicaid. the bad news then was that when they churned out oftentimes they were uninsured. when they earned a little bit more money they became uninsured and had no insurance. now with the affordable care act the good news is that they can move into an exchange if their income rises, goes up a little bit. however, it's up and down and up and down with a lot of these people and their income. they may move from medicaid onto the exchange and then their income may ...

>> you know, certainly is a churning issue. pete, you know that. it's interesting, these two laws that were looked at, the restrictions anyway, one of them a federal law barring the sale of handguns to customers under 21 and a texas law forbidding anyone under 21 to carry a handgun in public. this debate over people having handguns in public, extended, you know, from starbucks to university campuses, so this is intriguing, the decision made by the supreme court today, or the lack of movement by the supreme court. >> exactly right. and it was interesting in texas, because texas was actually def...