Page 3 - Mark Thiesen News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

This was a core piece of the argument for why people should support the law. if you like your plan, you can keep it. the same people who use this individual insurance are entrepreneurs, people who need to insure themselves. >> here is the thing, mark. if he wanted to be honest he shouldn't have said, period. i want the 14 million americans i believe will lose their individual plans the to understand it is a risk. they can call their representative and tell them to vote for obama care or not based on the full disclosure of the information. >> let's wonder why the plans are illegal in the first ...

That hasn't changed, that your premiums hasn't increased, the terms haven't changed you can keep it. let's put numbers in perspective. >> wait a minute. >> no, no, no. >> hold on. >> let's stay on point. hold on. it's not true. almost a million people have been cancelled so far, mark. the estimates are perhaps as many as 14 million could be cancelled soon. >> what's key -- >> let hark respond and then you can have the floor, kristen. go ahead, mark. >> right. these plans that don't offer the basic protections that the president has been saying all along are required in any insurance plan unles...

Keep their doctor. yet the president went out as recently as 2012 and said if you like your plan you can keep it. meantime there is a regulation -- an irs regulation pushed by hhs, human services, that said estimated tens of millions would be dumped. mark thiesen from the american enterprise institute and speech writer for president george w. bush. this is it. it is one thing to say -- he said they were going to get to keep their plans, period. now this regulation shows that months after obama care was passed, july, it passed in march. july or before, i should say. they knew. they were estimat...

Insurance in the first place. that exposes what it's about. if you go back the to the supreme court argument over whether it was constitutional the debate centered on whether hips was something everybody would need and it was constitutional to mandate it. the question is was health insurance is same as health care? conservatives say it is not. health insurance is something that should protect you against risk. not be the mechanism of payment for every health care service in your life. >> you were grandfathered unless they changed any part of your policy. then guess what. the department of heal...

Should have been considered insurance in the first place. that exposes what it's about. if you go back the to the supreme court argument over whether it was constitutional the debate centered on whether hips was something everybody would need and it was constitutional to mandate it. the question is was health insurance is same as health care? conservatives say it is not. health insurance is something that should protect you against risk. not be the mechanism of payment for every health care service in your life. >> you were grandfathered unless they changed any part of your policy. then guess ...