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if that sounds familiar, it's because many call it the model for obama care. although romney himself said he would repeal that law and let each state find its solution. the supreme court is going to hear a case this month on whether the federal law is, in fact, constitutional. if it takes full effect as scheduled in 2014, it might get a sense of how the law might change things if you look at massachusetts. you could do a lot worse if you look at how things have gone there. in her mid 20s jacquelin was working in her parents' restaurants, and like a lot of people her age, she really d...

scheduled in 2014, you might get a sense of how the law might change things if you look at massachusetts. you could do worse. see how things have gone there. take a look. in her mid-20s, jacqueline was working in her parents restaurant. like a lot of people her age, she didn't think she needed health insurance. it was too expensive anyway. >> it was almost $700 a month. i said i'm going to have to go without it. >> in 2006, governor mitt romney put his name on a health care law. faced with a state requirement to have insurance or face a fine, she signed up. >> how much did it cost yo...

Bring in this new sample and you start to actually compare it to do this matching. and again, looking for areas that are sort of known as junk dna or areas that are different. and you're looking for repeats in the dna sequence. the more repeats you see that match up with one of the relatives, the more likely it is going to be an actual match. more relatives, that increases the likelihood even further. >> and very briefly, there are unconfirmed reports, and i emphasize unconfirmed, that one of those sam fils came from his sister, bin laden's sister, who died from cancer several years ago while ...

Do they need to run tests on all the samples simultaneously, or i assume they would have done that ahead of time and therefore just needed to compare the dna from bin laden to the samples they already had. >> that's exactly right. so essentially, if you have known samples from known siblings or known relatives of in this case the person, bin laden, you basically create reference samples. so you have all of those relatives or reference samples sort of lined up and then you bring in this new sample and you start to actually compare it to do this matching. and again, looking for areas that are so...

In quantico, virginia. the result? the lab said it found this dna sequence in only 29 out of more than 1,100 samples of african-american hairs in its database. less than 3%. most important, wayne williams' dna had the same sequence. >> i think -- i don't think they said it was a match. they said they could not rule out whomever the hairs were from as being the possible donor. >> the fbi's hal dedman, a dna expert, said this finding is as strong as it can get with this particular type of testing. >> it probably would exclude 98% or so of the people in the world. >> did you kill 11-year-old patr...