the affordable care act is supporters have a tendency to say, oh, that s just one problem, but even with that as latest example be, the problems are compounding over time and adding up to this long list where it doesn t matter if it was just the web site, because each time there s another issue they have to deal with, and they re compounding over time to make a huge problem. jon: ellison basher is with the washington free beacon. thank you. thank you. jenna: well, some bombshell new information about a secret government program that sounds like it s straight out of a hit tv show. maybe that tv show homeland, i m sure you could choose one or another. the cia reportedly recruiting prisoners out of bit mow and turning them into gitmo and turning them into double agents. plus, the latest from the scene of a deadly bombing near a major transportation hub. [inaudible conversations] [speaking in native tongue] hey kevin.still eating chalk for heartburn? yeah. try new alka seltzer fruit
corporation, a chain of craft stores. the owners, devout christians, and they say that the department of health and human services requirement that they provide contraceptive care to their employees violates their religious beliefs. they say they should not be required to provide that kind of care to their employees. some types of abortive care of contraceptive care, i should say, they believe are tantamount to abortions. the supreme court has agreed to hear that case, it likely will be on the calendar coming up in march, and you know that fox will be there to cover it. big developments in our top stories and breaking news this hour. jenna: a big storm before the big getaway, how it could make a mess of your thanksgiving plans even if you re not in the eye of the storm. also, another obamacare
their part because people are hesitant, they ve seen this rollout not going well, and they re not responding all that great to it. this is a business side of things, we re insurance companies, and here s a new plan rather than tying it to the political aspect. so i think they re trying to create kind of two different veins between the business aspect and insurance policies and the politics side. jon: and we tend to forget that there is going to be a business, you know, under obamacare. i mean, these private insurance companies, the united health cares, the aetnas, the blue cross, blue shield, they are going to be, you know, handling patients and presumably making money. right. and they invested billions of dollars to restructure their insurance programs in order to implement the affordable care act. so really is sign-up is in their best benefit for a number of reasons. they ve put a lot of money and effort into getting this up, but also in terms if the exchanges were to fail even t
hi, everybody, i m jenna lee. jon: and i m jon scott. happening now, according to politico the new local media strategy focuses on those states, 24 of them or so, that have declined federal money to expand medicaid. a decision the administration says leaves more than five million people caught in the middle, ineligible for medicaid because they earn too much and ineligible for subsidies to buy private insurance because they earn too little. we have a staff writer for the hill who joins us now. so the white house is sending its people out to try to make good headlines, positive press in smaller markets. that s exactly right. and they re doing this because the press coverage from the national media has been so brutal over the last two months. we know that the insurance exchanges debuted with serious technical problems on october 1st, and those have continued into this week. in fact, healthcare.gov, the federal enrollment web site for obamacare, experienced an
they ve all been looking for opportunities to change that. russia has just been able to keep ukraine from joining the european union s association agreement, iran, as i say, has defied the u.s. with russia s help in syria. and china has proclaimed this new air defense zone reaching into disputed waters with japan. so what we re seeing is a kind of a concerted pushback by these three countries. i think we have to watch it carefully to see whether, in fact, this is the opening of a new moment in international history. jenna: very interesting. walter, it s great to have you, as always. thanks. good to be here. jenna: thank you very much. jon? jon: well, a few bay area guys show the government that a working health care web site is actually possible. plus, those pesky insurance premiums all adding to obamacare s problems. and more live team coverage of how mother nature could get in the way of your thanksgiving holiday plans. ooh, look at that.