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Once you have the politics of spite, which, yes, the supreme court did say that it was constitutional, but, again, you have hundreds of thousands of people in georgia, millions of people across the country, being left out of the access to health care, that congress agreed that they should have. you know, that is the point at which, you know, it really becomes -- both leaving certain people out of the political process, low-income people, people who have fallen to this coverage gap, in states where the bar for medicaid is already very, very high. and you also have a way to kind of say, look, ob...

Conditions. 5 million folks are getting health care and the reason why we still have insurance coverage gap has everything to do with the fact that folks qualify for medicare but their state didn't implement it or expand it. >> you mention five million and what we said out of those five million people three million estimated to be the ones without insurance. the rest of them had insurance and lost it. so the numbers don't add up. and the government is saying obamacare, president obama himself saying they needed 7 million, majority being young and healthy, that is not happening >> we had six mi...

As a consequence of that you've got these people who can't qualify for the if he ral subsidies that are offered under obamacare but they can't get medicaid either. so it's a problem and it is just exactly what you expect when government tries to step in and take over from the private sector. jon: yeah. >> a sixth of the economy. jon: you say the real problem in terms of a coverage gap is the number of people who have just outright lost their policies, their private health care policies and have not been covered as a result of the new obamacare policy? >> absolutely. you know, you look at the, ...

A long time and getting the rowels in place of how to enforce the law is harder than even critics expected. >> chris, on the obama care beat for us. thank you for explaining that it. >> another problem out of obama care. millions of low income americans and yet they make to which to qualify for medicaid. coverage gap. melissa francis, good day to you. >> good day. >> the gap, explain it. high numbers. >> it is the slice of people, they make too much money to qualify for the state program and not enough to qualify for the federal program. they are left out. one example is a 57-year-old barber i...

Some will get subsidies to make up the difference, but appare apparently not enough to get young americans off the couch. a lot of coverage, not enough cash to pay for the coverage. this law has some great things in it. the biggest, i think, is coverage for pre-existing conditions. the second biggest, removing the lifetime coverage gap. that means even if you have been sick before and you get sick again, you never to have worry about being covered. trust me, as someone who has dealt with more than his share of medical issues, that is a big deal. both those things. big deals. up fortunately, th...