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Plans, even as the president explicitly promised the opposite. while the president said the plans would be grandfathered, so if you had a plan you liked when obama care was passed you could keep your plan. we have found an irs bulletin from july of 2010, obama care passed march of 2010 saying, quote, a reasonable range for the percentage of individual policies that would terminate and therefore relinquish their grandfather status is 40% to 67% of those on the individual market. joining me now kristen anderson, vice president of the winston group and uh republican pollster and mark hannah democ...

Back now to our coverage of the problems piling up for the health care overhaul and a report from kaiser health news now getting a lot of attention. kaiser says hundreds of thousands of americans have been kicked off of their insurance plans in recent weeks because of obama care. calling into question the promise of the president that the if you like your coverage you can keep it. emily miller from the washington times and mark hannah is a veteran of two campaigns and a democratic political analyst. emily, let me start with you. the plan says it is people on the individual market they have to ...

>> probably higher quality and less expensive. >> to explain the difference of what she gets. prescription. her three kids don't use prescriptions. they haven't yet. she's paying double for something she's not using. >> this is what i want to ask. mark, the president didn't say you can keep your plan unless it's crappy and i will then decide it's crappy. >> the president said there are certain plans dpsh dsh. >> if i want to pay less isn't that my right? we are seeing that right taken away from hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of americans. >> look, there is a sucker born every minut...

To have someone of your intelligence suggest such a thing is irresponsible. >> i'm just asking. >> that was senate majority leader harry reid saying his top priority regarding his nine-day government shutdown is not help ing kids with cancer. he wasn't kidding. the national institutes of health have been forced to close their doors to clinical patients including children and have stopped therapy programs such as sending dogs to visit kids with cancer. the nih en rolls an average of 200 clinical a patients per week. 30 of them being children. until harry reid and the senate step up, negotiate w...

Che checks. >> they passed a bill to fund the nia. dana, they have discretion on these things. but the president seems to want to inflict the maximum amount of pain in the 17% shutdown to make a political point. what's your reaction? >> that's absolutely right. he wants to make this look and feel to a certain amount of people as absolutely painful as possible. >> he doesn't want to shut it uh down at all. >> mark, i was a lady and i was quiet while you spoke. you be a gentleman and show me the same curtesy. as i was saying before i was interrupted, sean, there is a hurt and rescue strategy her...