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Six times as many of the people don't have insurance whatsoever now. >> mark, he said, period. he said if you like it -- >> they can't keep it. >> i don't see -- >> i gave kristen the floor. go ahead. >> there is something critical in what mark said that opened the door to this if you like your plan you can keep it. if any piece of the plan changed at all then the grandfathering is thrown out the window. >> exactly. >> it's a little tiny loophole that came fromys the law that i allowing the law to get rid of the policies. this whole if you like your plan, you can keep it takes a shot at a repu...

Them. that will jack up rates or the insurers will say, i'm cancelling these policies. the president said, no, no, i will grandfather those in. people will be protected. here was the president february 2010. >> actually, any insurance you currently have would be grandfathered in so you could keep. you could decide not to get the better plan in the exchange. i could keep my acme insurance, just a high deductible catastrophic plan. i would not be required to get the better one. >> four months later an administrative memo talking about how over 70% of the individual insurance market would be canc...

Insurance now you have to buy insurance that's more costly and not as good. >> that has to be fixed. >> that's from a democrat, mark. >> imagine the calls to congress on january 1. if you are one of millions of americans who had insurance, saw your insurance cancelled, can't afford to buy it on the individual market because the prices are through the roof and you can't get on the website to buy it. you will call your congressman saying i'm getting punished? i get a tax penalty for not having insurance? i had it before obama care came along. why am i being punished for not having it when obama ...

Do? >> thanks for that, senator. now you hear senators and house members complaining. mark thiesen was a speech writer under george w. bush and a fellow with the enterprise institute. now it's bipartisan. something will change. if the president signs it. the pressure on barack obama. >> yes. >> who said he doesn't want to change it is mounting tonight. >> it is. there are two issues. one is a six-week fix because what's amazing -- >> six weeks? >> six-week fix. they didn't know the deadline is february 15th instead of march 31. so if you want insurance on march 31 you have to have bought it on...

Marshall, and from washington, mark thiesen, a former speech writer for former president george w. bush. has obama care been a total catastrophe, a complete catastrophe or a total complete catastrophe, one of the three please? >> i'm sorry, greg, i can't hear you. there's something -- there's something wrong with my audio here. it's not a catastrophe. for crying out loud, twitter nearly crashed when it first started. it's very typical when a website, and the fact i'm talking tech talk at the moment is frightening, but when there is a high spike with any company when they start a website, even ...