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Uninsured. the newly -- the people who got notices that could not renew are a new angry movement of people even ones who liked obama a lot. >> now, jonathan, republicans say they want to start over on health care as you heard senator barrasso say. are they getting close to that? are they getting anywhere near that? now you have these comparisons to hurricane katrina. how does all of that come into play? >> the well, the comparisons to kat katrina, that's a sound bite, like train wreck. you have to look at the actual configuration of political forces in the country right now. you see, you know,...

Ever reached an illness that they could not afford to pay for. and so i -- i wish the president or his staff had done a better job in the rollout. i wish that they would say that these plans, that every insurance company knows are bad plans compared to the obama care bills. but still anybody that's about to get re-elected or not get re-elected, it's a very sense i've thing and common sense and reason is not one of the things that a political candidate have when they're up for election. so i can't deal with panic and emotion, but i can deal with a good bill that the republicans from the incepti...

About now. they're planning to do that victory lap here for him. it is that legislative victory that so far in this presidency has alluded him if they do, indeed, win this vote, katy. >> yesterday we saw a couple congressmen go to the white house. they walked away with what is being referred to as the upton amendment. that's $8 billion that will go to help cover the costs in high risk pools for the states that take the waivers. other than that, mike, what else do we know about this bill? what is in this bill? >> what you see being voted on the floor right now, it was an inadvertent oversight w...

Remember who took it away from them. let's get one of ron wyden's tweets back up. he said the upton amendment encourages insurance companies to charge sick people with high premiums because they'll be bailed out with taxpayer money. the upton amendment gives $8 billion in subsidies to make sure those who have preexisting conditions do not get charged more. at issue there is this waiver that states will be allowed to vote on and use if they would like to do so to make it so preexisting conditions are sent to what are called high-risk pools. a lot of various health organizations have come out pr...

If you are going to do that for someone in the individual market who did not maintain continuous coverage, there is a risk. so, the $8 billion that mr. long asked to be added to the bill today would provide premium support to those individuals who might be caught in that situation. vast majority of people, vast majority of people are in large group market in the employer market, where this is not an issue at all. for someone who is in the individual market, who does not maintain continuous coverage, there would be a risk and this was designed to mitigate that risk. the population of people is ...