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Limits immediately came back into force through insurance companies. if you went through that lifetime limit, have you even begun to contemplate what your options might be, what you would have to do? >> we've obviously thought about it and it's like stacy said at the convention the other night, it's always in the back of our mind. and sometimes in the front of our mind. and you know, we talk about it and it would be devastating. frankly once we get to her third surgery, we would hit the cap and then we would be at the point where we've always had insurance and paid premiums that she would no l...

Was pick out just one component of the bill and a very easily understood one, which is lifetime limits of payouts of basically help from an insurance policy and how easily those lifetime limits can be hit. in this case, imagine you have a baby with congenital heart disease who needs three different open heart surgery operations over a period of years. you're going to hit the lifetime limit, the actual lifetime limit on that child's health insurance by the time she's six or seven years old. do you have to sell your home? you'll go into bankruptcy. this put a human face on that and that was one ...

In any survey that says we need to change all of the things that the republicans are trying to redo. >> let me bring lawrence o'donnell and chris matthews into this from charlotte. in terms of talking about this, this policy shift, is this an important part of the message tonight? is this the policy stuff they're going to move on from? or is this going to be a continuing campaign thing? >> they're going to stay on health care, because they have to, that's the way the republicans are coming at them. they have found a way tonight, that is to find individual components of the bill, like lifetime ...

Kindergarten class. it is the moss simplistic stuff you can imagine. i mean, michelle obama was operating 15 grades higher than ann romney ever has in any of her public comments ever. there just isn't any reasonable comparison between these two. ann romney is absolutely vacant on the matter of governance, any sort of policy difference. she hasn't said a single sentence to women about government that would in any way be relevant to why they might vote. whereas mrs. obama last night was talking about her own life and -- the relevance to government in her own life. and how these decisions of gove...

Year, september 2010, young people were allowed to stay on their parents' insurance plans until age 26. that was also brand new starting two years ago in september. in september of 2010, it also became illegal for your insurance company to drop you to cancel your coverage because you have the audacity to try to use your insurance, because you filed a claim. starting that same month, your insurance company stopped being able to put a lifetime limit on you in terms of what they would spend on you for your health care needs. so if you got really sick, your insurance company sno longer gets to say...