forward that is not really gotten a heck of a lot of attention. and then as robert indicated, it led to a drop in the number of uninsured, if we could take a look at that if you want. but yet what you ll see is a record low in the number of people without insurance. down to 8% from roughly 15% plus or minus before the passage of obamacare. if you go all the way back before medicare and medicaid, it s nearly 25%. but again, this is a combination of not just what children the exchanges, but also some things that the biden menstruation did as well through encourage states to sign up for expanded medicaid, which provided insurance to more people. steve, this last part is fascinating, because for all the protests from republican members of congress, republican senators, nine out of the ten highest moments are in republican led states, red states if you want to call them that. yeah, take a look at a map, you will see something amazing. if you look at the ten states i think, i think all i
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in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. there s two special councils for the second time in as many minds attorney general merrick garland appointed independent investigator. this one will review president biden s handling of classified documents. i m here today to announce an appointment of robert kerr. as special counsel, department of justice regulation governing matters. this appointment underscores for the public the department s commitment to both independents and accountability in particularly sensitive matters. and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. this announcement comes in the wake of the biden menstruation revealing on monday that the president s lawyers had discovered quote, a small number of classified documents and his former office at the penn biden center in washington, d.c., that s the thing tack that biden founded. the document which date from the obama biden administration were found on novembe
to the story and actually treating this like the challenge it is. it absolutely does, alicia. it points to the need to invest in the infrastructure of care and concern and and a very practical level the processing of people making these asylum claims so that they can be treated humanely, fairly, and it can be done in an orderly way. the problem is, as much as the biden menstruation is pushed for more resources than, in some instances, has delivered more resources to border patrol, nonprofits, organizations that are providing assistance to asylum seekers. republicans have also been a huge block on more resources that need to be invested in order to cover those things. on the one hand they are screaming and shouting about the problem at the border, they are not actually doing anything to address the problem. in fact, they are very much making it worse. that s because too many