they have massive bureaucratic crack all with mid term leblgs now less than 11 months away. sticker shock. doctor shortages. not the right hospitals. losing coverage. losing everything that you thought you could keep. this is going to be i think politically very difficult for democrats if this drags on because they are going to have to have those going in. the rest of obamacare is untop layer. the legal challenges the lawyers have until tomorrow to explain why a group of colorado nuns and other similar religious organizations should be forced to provide contraception to employees under obamacare. it is a big battle crewibrewingt now. the administration keeps going back to the numbers 2.1 million people who have enrolled in healthcare plans short of the 7 million they say they paid.
surprise? sonia sotomayor had a busy night. i was surprised at the injunction. i thought if it was going to happen, it would have happened earlier. i do think that this is problematic, even though the administration said if they sign an exemption, they are exempted. i think at this point they are not certain they still won t be fined. it is in it is not happening in advance of obamacare. all of these debates took place way in advance of this law becoming a reality. now it is real and people have been hearing about it nonstop since october 1st. sticker shock. doctor shortages. not the right hospitals. losing coverage and everything that you thought you could keep. this is going to be, i think, politically very difficult for democrats if this drags on, because they ll have to defend it going into an election year when the rest of obamacare is so unpopular.
the mandate tax instead of buying insurance overall. so the fallout here j is that the mandate tax could go up. jon: $95 fine doesn t sound like much but it could be bigger than that depending on your income. fox business network, thanks. good to be with you. jenna: millions of americans are expected to sign up for insurance under the new law a coring to the administration. that s raising some questions about whether there s going to be enough doctors to treat them all. yesterday on happening now we spoke to a doctor who is an internist and fellow at the american enterprise institute, a frequent critic of obamacare. he says doctor shortages should not be a concern. i think just assuming because we have 30 million more people who are uninsured, they weren t getting care before and now they re getting care that that s going to create a shortage, that s going to be a naive assumption. they were getting care before. a lot of them will continue to
until today, the opportunity to actually speak with these people. i am deeply disappointed that dr. cobern has taken the time to hear about these complaints but continues to refuse to meet and allow him to respond to any charges being made against him. it s no wonder that whistle blowers do not want to talk to him or his staff because their allegations have been dismissed. a spokesman for harry reid said this morning that the majority leader, quote, has supported and will support the s.o.s. las vegas casino in any way he can. jon: interesting. thanks, doug. jenna: new information about obamacare today and enrollment. what a new poll find what americans would rather do than sign up for obama karen. there are concerns there will not be enough doctors to treat everyone. yesterday we talked to a doctor who says there will be no doctor
it feels like certainly there s not going to be enough doctors or wall street medicine to go around. i think there s not an overall shortage. i think physician productivity will increase with new technology and aging upon require less intensive medical care because people are aging differently. i think there s going to be doctor shortages in pockets of the marketplace where you re not paying providers enough to provide the services. it s going to be medicaid. in obama care, people will have a hard time getting access to providers. we re going to have pockets of shortages, but not overall. there s a distinction between health care insurance and actual health care, particularly quality health care. before i let you go, i want to ask you about funding. several states say, you know, we don t want to enhance our medicaid system. right. and and where does the money come from? i mean, where we re dumping nine million people next year alone on that, where does the money come from?