how significant could it be? if states opted to use the federal exchange can t offer these tax credits will so many low-income americans be able to unafford the system that the system itself might struggle to survive. yeah. this is a problem of numbers. you can only support the system by numbers. you have 34 states that didn t opt in. there s a real problem. we ve heard the this could be the equivalent of a nuclear bomb, vis-a-vis health care. with obamacare struggling to come into its own, how urge cent the need for more access to health care? how have things changed since obamcare came into being? things have been great since obamacare has come into being because people who didn t have health care actually have it. it s as simple as that. when people are coming to our offices and saying they haven t seen a doctor in ten years, and now they are actually getting health care, the reality is that it is preventing so many people
make sure that it s valid. and so that s how our country works. and i think it will work with obamacare, but as you say, this is basically winding its way through the courts. it was in the u.s. supreme court and in the d.c. circuit for a very big case. looking at those human stories it makes it clear why the president s fight on this was so worth it. dr. corey her bert and anne bremner, thank you. we ve been looking at the issue of concussions. now we re going to take it to the next pro level. american football. the author of league of denial about the nfl s secret concussion issues, challenges, conspiracy. he s going to be with us right up ahead. to build something . some come here to build something stronger. others come to build something faster. something safer. something greener. something the whole world can share. people come to boeing to do many different things.
so maybe don t do the dew. back with me, dr. corey aybar and anne bremner. this is an interesting facet of the health care dilemma. obamcare doesn t have any, well, teeth, when it comes to dental plans. they require children s dental health but there s no adult requirement. and that s led to a situation where nowa 85 million people across the country just don t have dental coverage and, therefore, foregoing visits because of the cost. that can lead to serious issues. it s not just a cosmetic issue. should this more have been on the table during the health care debate? i think that a lot of things were left off, but, you know, when we talk about dental disease being a number one chronic illness and obama care documents don t necessarily, you know, have something that s
a good deed seldom goes unpunished. health care reforms continues to be the most punishing of all the good deeds in america. obamacare is delivering health care for millions but it s more embattled than ever. and that could get even worse. the d.c. circuit court of afrks peels is expected to rule on a case that could be way more devastating than that hobby lobby ruling earlier this week. the issue whether the federal obamacare exchange, not just the state-run ones can offer tax breaks to low income americans who sign up. since many opted to use that federal system this could make obamacare unaffordable for millions of americans. what does america look like if we drop the dream of affordable health care? joining me is dr. corey abar from the lsu health sciences center. back with me is attorney anne bremner. let s look at this case first.
8%. now they have to pay much more and they are going to have to pay the added fees and the added taxes. so there are people who are being squeezed we have already talked about people who have had plans canceled. here is a segment new to the table as being squeezed and possibly squeezed out of all health insurance po that was the frauds much obama s campaign promise. they only wanted to tax the upper 2% the very rich and all of that but what they didn t say is that hidden in obamacare were billions, tens of billions of dollars of tax hike on the middle, as you say, auto thousand. that s with the median income in the country. household income and the upper middle class. this is a huge tax on the middle class. but, obama posed as defender of the middle class against the very rich now we look inside.