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Health care on until they're 26 or no lifetime limits. you don't have to worry about hitting your limit and getting your care but people will be getting their private insurance through the exchanges. so republicans will be running against that. they'll want to take that away. so that's a terrible box to be in. >> it is a box of emotion, perhaps. maybe that's it. >> nice job. >> let's remember, the number right now. 5 million americans have lost health insurance that they were happy about. less than a million. about 400,000 have signed up. and most of those haven't even paid yet. they can't bec...

These republicans in the house know they are going to get reelected in 2014. the historical average is somewhere around 90% of incumbents get elected. there's no real pressure on them to change that strategy. they are going to stick with it as far as they can. this probably helps them get re-elected in some of these districts. i don't see that dynamic that's coming in. a month ago or so we were talking about how the republican party was in tatters after the shutdown. i think that was probably hyperbole in the same way healthcare.gov was going to end the obama presidency. >> i don't know if thi...

And despicable. women are making the decisions in their household as far as insurance, but it is despicable insofar as the affordable care act specifically makes a point of helping women. women are no longer discriminated against in terms of insurance premiums. they have better access to coverage. and women who are mothers can now keep their children who have pre-existing conditions on health insurance without worrying about lifetime limits. it really is the most craven political exercise to try to target women, young women and mothers and tell them this is a bad thing. this is effectively dea...

You think there's a desire for it? absolutely. how about minnesota? how is it working there? joining me now is congressman keith ellison of minnesota. congressman, good to have you with us tonight. on the upton bill, you, of course, voted no. you did not side with the republicans. there were 39 of your colleagues who decided to do it, for various reasons. does this weaken the position of the democrats, because it strengthens the talking points for the republicans? john boehner is going to be able to run around for a year now saying the democrats don't even believe in their own bill and what th...

It doesn't prevent you from being discriminated against on the basis of preexisting conditions, lifetime limits, annual limits. >> there is a bottom line which people understand and the president won't acknowledge, and that is if the government has decided there has to be minimum requirements in any health care plan, so if you have something and you like it, and it doesn't meet what the government says you have to have, you cannot keep it. and that's not what you said here. >> if you had your plan before the enactment of the law in 2010. if you had your plan before. there is nothing in the law...