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could an obscure tax law stop the court from even considering the case? here s what one of the justices told a lawyer designe defending. what it says is penalty. moreover, this is not in the internal revenue code, but for purposes of collection. greta: fox news correspondent shannon bream was inside the court during today s hearing. she s live with the latest. as we say in the business, she owns this. she knows more about this than anybody else. what happened today? it was a question about whether this case is even ripe or not because of this 1867 law. the justices never get to the big question about the mandate and anything beyond that. the justices seemed very skeptical about that. you mentioned they had appointed this attorney, robert long. they gave him 40 minutes of time, extended the argument. his only task was to come in and defend the point that the case is not ripe. despite his best efforts, the justices seem unconvinced. greta: do you mean that what th ....
while the administration is forcing most americans to accept the new law, over one and a half million americans now get a free pass. these people have been given special washington waivers. many of these waivers have gone to labor unions who supported the law in the first place, but now don t want to live under it. well, if you don t have a lawyer or a lobbyist connected to this administration, you re out of luck. this isn t fair and it s not the american way. as a doctor, i have taken care of families for over a quarter of a century. i know that this law is bad for patients, it s bad for providers the nurses and the doctors who care for those patients and it s bad for taxpayers. as a doctor, i m disturbed that the law will require more irs agents to investigate you. to make sure you actually buy insurance but it fails to deal in any meaningful way with the shortage of nurses and doctors to actually take care of you. your health care decisions should be decided in ....
there are treatments i can t see that are out of my reach probably. q&a .ay on c-span s this weekend on booktv, bill crystal discusses his late father s essays on the neo conservative movement. 52 women look back on the work of the civil rights movement. prime minister gordon brown on coming back from the economic downturn. find a complete schedule at booktv.org. at the schedule sent to your in box. arizona rep gabrielle giffords is scheduled to travel to houston friday to continue our rehabilitation. her husband spoke with reporters earlier today at university medical center in tucson. this is 25 minutes. i would like to take an opportunity to thank all the people contacting us here at the hospital. it is amazing to see how many people in the country really feel about this event. what we are going to do at this press conference, i will turn it over to michael lemole in just a moment. captain mark kelly, ms. giffords husband, would give a brief statement. we will ....
the republicans had a ance to offer an alternative, they didn t. now they come to washington and say, oh, let s have the committees try to figure this all out. yesterday they were the party of no and today they are the party of we don t know how to go. who are these republicans? after months and months and months of the national debate, you can go into any coffee shop, any church basement, just about any card game in this country and people have solid ideas about what they think about health care, but not the republicans. they ve got a resolution today that says, hey, committees, go try to figure this stuff out. it s complicated. by the way, i don t know, madam speaker, if i read it correctly, i don t think there are any deadlines. i don t think there are any deadlines. i will eat this rostrum if they come back with legislation that actually accomplishes the things that they just repealed yesterday. it s not going to happen. ands in the fundamental problem that i believ ....
Explanation from wellpoint about its plans to institute huge rate hikes, not merely in california, proposed 39% rate increase there, but also in at least ten other states where it has subsidiaries. chairman waxman of the house energy and commerce committee revealing that his investigators had found internal wellpoint documents which proved the company was raising premiums merely to pad its profits to a target of 7%. yesterday at a hearing in california a company executive having testified that the company had no interest in anything other than slimmer profits of 2% to 5%. you know, nothing at all, next to nothing. only 2 to 4 billion dollars. wellpoint s ceo angela brailey arguing that her company s profit margins are modest, compared to other sectors of the economy. you know, like europe. as we mentioned, it was against that backdrop today that the house also began debate on whether to invoke the insurance cartel s anti-trust exemption. mccarron ferguson. when republicans tried to scu ....