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It hhs is watching it as well. look, in some cases you're going to be able -- it might be in your benefit not to be getting insurance through your company but through an exchange because then you're not tied to your company. you can -- you have the port ability of your health insurance, which is something that health care reform is also trying to do. in some cases big companies are asking retirees or moving retirees on to exchanges because it's cost effective for them. that's something that will be really interesting to watch as well. maybe if you're a current employee with your company, you'l...

There are all sorts of bad things coming out. you'll see young people in some of the states that have exchanges paying more than what they're currently paying in the state exchanges. there's a lot of little things we are seeing every day, people being shifted from their jobs, being turned into part-time employees, being shifted from the current insurance companies that they have right now, private insurance. there's a lot of things that need to be fixed. i have seen -- i don't think it's fair to paint all republicans with one broad brush. i think to my happy surprise rand paul came out, who is...

Going to spend the money to buy insurance and it depends on where you live, it depends on what insurance company it is. the insurance companies are gettinging in with the states and they've got to have these exchanges so that you can go on there and you can have these different options. really i want to be clear it's very different. we're completely remaking how we deliver health insurance coverage in this country. it's going to be very different for people and they're going to start seeing if you're a small business owner you already know that by law you have to let your employees know what t...

Up our own state exchanges. their own marketplaces. and each state is just using their own name for it. so i had a -- i had a conference, video conference, with all the state directors of all the marketplaces. and i'm talking to the director in kentucky and idaho, and you know, kentucky it's called, like kentucky connect and in idaho it's called the idaho health care exchange. there's a story that came out of kentucky where some folks were signing people up at a county fair somewhere, and some guy goes up and he starts looking at the rates and decides he's going to sign up. and he turns to his...

The way we always have in this country, respecting other people's rights, to their own rights of conscience. >> reporter: one key concern is the hhs contraception mandate which will require employers to make sure employees have access to health insurance coverage that provides cost-free contraception. critics argue that will include drugs that can cause abortions. dozens of legal challenges to the mandate are pending across the country, and the issue appears to be on the fast track to the u.s. supreme court. but that's not the only area of concern for pro-life critics who also argue that feder...