coverage. if you made it through the first round of policy cancellations under obamacare, you still might not be in the clear. jim ingle tells us a lot more of you will learn if you like your policy, that doesn t mean you can keep your policy. president obama delayed the inevitable by postponing the employer mandate by a year and urging that cancelled individual policies in 2013 be extended into 2014, but the reprieve ends this year for both the president and millions of policy holders. it s going to be millions of people, and it s probably going to be tens of millions of people, but one thing we re sure of, there will be more cancellations this fall than there were last fall. and people will probably be getting the cancellation letters about the time they re going to the polls in november of 2014. andy and his family in louisville, kentucky, were facing a tripling of their costs until their insurance company let them extend their policy for a year with the president s blessing
that s not an argument that people who work can relate to. the backdrop to all of this is immigration. we re looking at 2.3 million fewer jobs just because of obamacare, not because of the other factors in the economy, and the white house wants to double the number of legal low-skilled immigrants to the country. what is that going to do to wages for people who live here already? it s really an unsustainable you can t put the two together. the other backdrop is unemployment insurance. think about the argument the white house is making. basically more benefits can discourage work. that s precisely the argument that republicans have been making on unemployment insurance. the white house and its supporters have been poo-pooing. it s another argument that they want to turn to the white house and say you re making that here but you re not making it here. which is it in. we know november is a long way off. it s forever in politics, but there continue to be negative reports regarding the
0 with an eye on the 2014 midterms, republicans had new ammunition for their long claim that the cost of the health benefits will hurt the economy in the long run. they can say anything they want, but this number is a lot worse than anybody thought. though the president insisted to fox new s bill o reilly that government is not growing out of control. we have not massively expanded the welfare state. that s just not true. when you take a look at it, actually, the levers of support that we provide to folks who are willing to work hard, they re not that different than they were 30 years ago, 40 years ago, or 50 years ago. the white house also touted that the cbo report has good news, including the so called risk corridor provisions are doing better than expected. they claim they will turn to an insurance industry bailout. they claim they re turning a profit. now to your health care coverage. if you made it through the first round of policy cancellations under obamacare, you s
lawmakers on capitol hill, agree on one thing. the obamacare rollout was a disaster. but even after some fixes, it s still not popular. republicans are working on their own idea to replace the affordable care act. we have fox team coverage tonight. jim ingle looks at hospitals considering paying the premiums of uninsured patients, but first, mike emanuel is live on capitol hill with the latest today. hi, mike. bret, good evening. amid signs obamacare remains unpopular with millions of americans, house republicans are looking for the best way to replace it. we understand that people are hurting, and we understand that there needs to be a replacement. that we need to fix our health care system, but not do it in a way that puts government in charge. at the house gop retreat in maryland, leadership discussed with rank and file members moving forward with an obamacare replacement to provide a contrast. there was a lot of support for the purchase across state lines making so greater
want to make sure they have adequate coverage. it also said that would enable future patients to receive care earlier, perhaps at a doctor s office, avoiding the need for hospital care. but even beyond skewing the risk pool, insurance companies have many objections. the issue here is that when the entities that are paying premiums and cost sharing are doing it solely to benefit themselves financially, that s a conflict of interest and that s something that shouldn t be done. now, in the midst of so many different views, bret, analysts say it might take the courts to make a definitive decision. bret. okay, jim, thank you. a rough day on the markets today. the dow lost 150. the s&p 500 fell 11. the nasdaq dropped 19. for the week, the dow lost over a percentage point. the s & p slid just under a half point. up next, who is excuse me, and is not cashing in on the super bowl. but first, here s what some of our fox affiliates across the country are covering tonight.