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Throughout some 5 million nationwide because they live in red states that declined to expand medicaid and those that declined, most are more conservative states in the south, midwest and northern rocky mountains that voted against president obama. about 20%, sir, of your state is uninsured and some 130,000 fall into the medicaid coverage gap as well. so will you and your colleagues continue your efforts to try to thwart obamacare or will you help to punish your governor to help those in the state. first of all, i respect and i don't think her mind's been changed very much and i don't think it ...

Families do when they show up at the hospital or need to reorder a life saving prescription on new year's day and the obama care plan is not yet available. this coverage gap is real. >> this is a big deal to quote joe biden. >> the president also appealed to another key part of his base when a youth summit gathered at the white house. mr. obama answered critics who says he has been avoiding an affordable care act nickname. >> i know people call this law obama care. that's okay. because i do care. and -- i do. i care about you. i care about -- >> the president made this policy pitch today knowi...

Conservative think tank says wisconsin has no coverage gap. >> people ten to characterize republicans, the fact is wisconsin has covered many more people than delaware has. delaware is not a marchly poor state but it is pretty clear that they've taken care of a large he enough of poor people. f i don't know. i'm not being argumentative but the question is when you've taken them off medicate and put them into the obama care, is the effect of that. some of them may not be able to afford the premiums and i think this is one of the risks. so in our state, we have 90,000 people who don't have insur...

Why would you not take that to help insure people currently uninsured. >> you look at the keiser family found ails, the walk post did an editorial the other day of the coverage gap, we were the only one that didn't take medicare. every state is different. in our case, we did something different from the states that did take or didn't take. we were able to put everybody on poverty is covered. everybody above poverty goes into the free market. we don't expose the taxpayers. for anybody that would say why don't take it? my answer is simple, i don't want the burden that will come due when the fede...

Quarterbacking or legislative efforts they undertake to block the president, that they can really affect the outcomes for people and even obama might get blamed for those, it's really outside forces contributing a great deal. >> i mean, outside forces of all sorts, there's sort of republican noise machine making it hard to understand what is actually happening. they are sort of driving the narrative right now making people think about several million who have been canceled and will be canceled. but there's a far greater number of folks who were uninsured before who will be available to get ins...