you wondering about one of the certainties of life, taxes. jay leno summed it up well last night. here s the part i don t get, okay, the government is shut down. services are cut, and 33% of the federal workers were sent home. 33% of the government is shut down, how come we re still paying 100% of our taxes? tient we get a 33% discount or at least prorate it? and author bob green agrees with jaley leno. i read your op-ed, mr. green, on cnn.com. you go through this whole explanation. you liken this to kind of like buying an airplane ticket. you pay this ticket to fly, you re halfway through the trip, and the airline cancels the rest of your trip, you say, you the passenger should get a refund. we the taxpayer should get a refund as well. right? well, or if you join a health club for a year and pay the fee and they tell you you have to go under renovations for three months, you get 25% back. you subscribe to a magazine for
person who runs comcast health insurance, that s customer. comcast is the customer. i m not the customer. it would be like if you bought a car from the dealer. what the aca enables is an opportunity for the first time for the 40 million people who today don t have insurance to come into the market and have a choice. through a marketplace that s very equivalent to buying an airplane ticket online. does that square with what you understand about the health yes, that s basically right. the big thing, and i think this is a key point about how the insurance market is changing, two things. one, you get the new marketplaces which is a sort of punctuated moment when you have new entrants come in and everybody is beginning from scratch. number two, we re killing off, a , the ability to underwrite and go at people because they were sick or have high risk or killing away the ability to really rate against age. where it used to be one of the big ways the insurance competed in the individu
insurance, that s customer. comcast is the customer. i m not the customer. it would be like if you bought a car from the dealer. what the aca enables is an opportunity for the first time for the 40 million people who today don t have insurance to come into the market and have a choice. through a marketplace that s very equivalent to buying an airplane ticket online. does that square with what you understand about the health yes, that s basically right. the big thing, and i think this is a key point about how the insurance market is changing, two things. one, you get the new marketplaces which is a sort of punctuated moment when you have new entrants come in and everybody is beginning from scratch. number two, we re killing off, a , the ability to underwrite and go at people because they were sick or have high risk or killing away the ability to really rate against age. where it used to be one of the big ways the insurance competed in the individual market was to find the peopl
person who runs comcast health insurance, that s customer. comcast is the customer. i m not the customer. it would be like if you bought a car from the dealer. what the aca enables is an opportunity for the first time for the 40 million people who today don t have insurance to come into the market and have a choice. through a marketplace that s very equivalent to buying an airplane ticket online. does that square with what you understand about the health yes, that s basically right. the big thing, and i think this is a key point about how the insurance market is changing, two things. one, you get the new marketplaces which is a sort of punctuated moment when you have new entrants come in and everybody is beginning from scratch. number two, we re killing off, a , the ability to underwrite and go at people because they were sick or have high risk or killing away the ability to really rate against age. where it used to be one of the big ways the insurance competed in the individu
date. one thing we wanted to find out is when he bought his airplane ticket. also raised at the meeting was exactly when the russians believed that tamerlan and his mother were radicalized. because the congressmen said that they believed that the russians said that as far back as 2003, they were aware that tamerlan and his mother had become radical islamists. and this was also discussed and raised in the issue that needs to further inquire. thank you so much for that. from there now to front page politics. new details about a possible timeline for immigration reform. here s senator chuck schumer on meet the press. we re going to put immigration on the floor starting on june 10th. i predict it will pass the senate by july 4th. we re hoping to get up to 70 votes, which means a lot of republicans, and we re willing to entertain amendments that don t damage the core principles of the bill, but improve the bill. also, new today, fresh