soaring. my premiums would increase approximately 61%. i went from $891 a month to $1437 a month. and also my deductibles all doubled. today in congress, hhs secretary sebelius and democratic allies sought to blame all cancellations of policies on insurance policies, not the requirements of obama care. insurance companies are cancelling lousy policies with high prices because they can t compete. does the aca require insurance companies to discontinue the plans that people had when the law was passed? yes or no? not when the law was passed if the plans have not changed. sebelius argued that existing plans were grandfathered back in 2010 so people could keep them. but one lawmaker read administration regulations from july of 2010 that anticipated massive cancellations because of obama care. the department expects that a large population of individual
i was 437 when i came in. i am now 265 pounds. phillips has had several prior convictions for burglary and theft. these are some of the previous photos of mr. phillips that we have. 2001, 2003. from 200 pounds to morbid obesity, his mug shots tell the story of his exponential weight gain. my self-esteem out there in the free had plummeted. i d stopped giving a care about everything. i was drinking anywhere from a bottle to a bottle and a half of jack a day. i started eating and eating as a comfort. but there was one person at the jail that would have a profound effect on phillip s life. hop up here and see where you are at here today. dr. hubert downstairs is the one that got me to change. look at this. excellent. have a seat up on the bench. he told me that he saw something better in me.
sean phillips weighed 437 pound and says he was slowly killing himself with food. after medical staff put him on a diet and exercise program, he says he lost 175 pounds. but phillips still carries a heavy weight. he is awaiting trial for murder. he is accused of seeking vigilante justice against a man he believes sexually assaulted a close relative, a young girl. phillips admit he and three accomplices drove the man to a remote wilderness area and began beating him. i m not going to mince words. i beat the crap out of the guy. we beat him up in the field. i said don t come back ever again. phillips says one of the accomplices took it upon himself to stab the victim. the dude that was with me did it. he stabbed him. and slit his throat. i was in the truck. there was nothing i could do.
howard hubert is a board certified physician s assistant at bear county jail. sean phillips is one of my favorite cases to talk about. sean came through the door weighing 437 pound. i said do you went to get the diabetes and blood pressure under control? he said of course. i said here it the plan. i m going to put you on an 1,800 calorie a day diabetic diet, taper your diabetes meds blood pressure meds. i said if you exercise a lot, we ll take the medications away he was consuming, 5,000, 6,000, 7,000 calories a day. here in the jail we can control diet a whole lot. i m on diet tray. i don t get as much of a portion as everybody else does. they steam a lot of my stuff. sometimes they steam them to death. you get steamed vegetables and they come up looking like mush. but you know what it is food. how much weight have you lost?
54% of those asked would like to see all or part of the law repealed while a healthy of majority people prefer the old civil to obamacare. 76% said they re happy with their current health care coverage while only 11% are unhappy. and by a 52-36% margin, people said the pre-obamacare system would be better for their family than the new law. why? perhaps the experience of tom from seattle helps explain. he recently got a letter from his insurance company explaining what will change when obamacare takes effect. listen. my premiums would increase approximately 61%. i went from $891 a month to $1437 a month. and, also my deductibles all doubled. reporter: now the letter from the insurer also said his current deductible for family of five would double from $4,000 a