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Sign up, thousands of americans who thought they had health insurance apparently still do not. "the wall street journal" reporting that many americans who paid their premiums are facing a coverage gap thanks to backlog and ongoing technical problems with the enrollment site. karl rove, chief advisor, deputy chief of staff to president bush, fox news contributor. how are you, sir, from austin, texas? you have a few things going on down there in texas, don't you now? >> a lot. bill: backlogs, technical glitches, stalled insurance policies. you saw the article. what do you make of it, karl? >> lo...

In sickness and in health until obama care do us part. after being happily married for more than 33 years, larry and linda drain decided to separate late last year not because they fell out of love but fell into the coverage gap. like 162,000 other tennesseens, they make too little to qualify for subsidies under the affordable care act but too much to qualify for medicaid. that wouldn't be the case if governor would opt if for medicaid coverage in tennessee. so far the governor haslem declined to do saying he favors plans to help the poor by private insurance. with linda drain facing problems

Precarious situation both legally and, more importantly, with his relationship with the general assembly. he's raising two issues there. let me take the legal one. have you looked at this and are you satisfied that there is a legal route to expanding this by executive action? >> well, we're looking at that, steve, but certainly we would like to do this through the legislature. that's the way it should be done. you know, as you said earlier, we ran on this issue in virginia. the attorney general, myself and governor mcauliffe, we won. the people spoke in the commonwealth of virginia. they are s...

Chair committees to now it will go back to all white males who are going to be the chair of our committees. but the reason i am particularly furious about this is because senator puckett was a targeted senator. and it took a lot of money for us to get him re-elected. and most of us took money out of our campaign war chest to put into the senate democratic caucus so -- >> sure. so senator lucas, let me ask you, why do you think he resigned? >> he resigned because he thought he was going to get this job with the tobacco commission and his daughter was going to go on the bench. but what he's done...

Expansion. five others are discussing their options while four others created hybrid models. nearly 6 million americans are being denied coverage as gop governors and state legislators block these funds. let's bring back joan, james and josh. also joining us from miami is mary mcneal, one of the millions of americans caught in this coverage gap. mary, thank you so much for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> mary, as i understand it, you fall into this medicaid coverage gap. can you tell us a little bit about your story? >> okay. i worked for a company for 32 years and they had a layoff in 2009....