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The sense that when i thought about lifetime caps, i always thought of it being a problem for older people. that somewhere up toward your 60s, probably before you get to medicare, if you've had a lot of problems you might hit your lifetime cap but as soon as you started speaking about this it become clear that the huge risk in lifetime caps is to children born with serious problems that need surgeries. they are in the most likely position to hit a lifetime cap. >> yeah, absolutely. with the rate of birth defects going up and sky rocketing and -- here you go -- and one in 100 children are born ...

Lifetime and there's a lot that can happen and a lot that can go wrong and those medical bills just keep adding up and it's frightening to think about a repeal. and losing that coverage. >> stacy, you changed my perspective on lifetime caps in the sense that when i thought about lifetime caps, i always thought of it being a problem for older people. that somewhere up toward your 60s, probably before you get to medicare, if you've had a lot of problems you might hit your lifetime cap but as soon as you started speaking about this it become clear that the huge risk in lifetime caps is to childre...

we begin with the republican's furious assault on president obama's health care reform law and equally determined backlash. mitt romney faced it today going off script after some prolonged boog interrupted his speech before the naacp convention in houston. jim acosta is standing by in the hall right now. jim, show our viewers, tell our viewers, what happened in houston. >> reporter: wolf, naacp leaders told cnn they praised mitt romney for showing what they called courage in coming to this convention today. but safe to say mitt romney did not hide his positions on issues that are dea...

To stay on insurance. they can't overcome lifetime, no lifetime caps. they can't overcome the senior citizen relief they're getting, so in actuality, they believe no news is good news and that's what they've given the american people. absolutely no news, but they are giving them pain. and the pain will be the lack of this coverage and they are ignoring of course, governor romney, who had many, many statements indicating he wanted no free riders. he thought it was a good thing for people who could afford health insurance to them to pay. so in essence, no. they do not have an answer. i'll tell y...

based on the commerce clause of the constitution. but it was upheld based on the tax writing provisions of the u.s. congress, and the executive branch of the u.s. government. a 5-4 decision. the key decision by the chief justice of the united states, john roberts. he sided with the other, the democratic appointed members of the supreme court, breyer, ginsberg, kagan, sotomayor, together with chief justice john roberts, they were in the majority. kennedy, scalia, alito and thomas, they were in the minority. the health care reform law stays in full -- fully remains the law of the land ...