complete control. i think they have the upper hand in general going forward. the impact of the law is hurting a lot more people than it is helping. if you look at some polls recently in gallup, by two to one margin people say they have been hurt. jon: rather than helped by the law. i keep my eye on the law. people s own experiences with the law and friends will have biggest impact. jenna: they will feel the impact, as you point out john, over the past few months as they live with the law. final question for both of you. big picture if you will. an interesting article what we can expect in 2014 asks this questions. it says, the key question may turn out to be how much 2014 resembles 2010. the republican last big year, the tea party powered wave that swept them into office all levels nationwide. it is clear conditions are somewhat different. caitlin, a question about that. how different? one difference is there aren t kind of the same kind of primaries that we saw in 2010. there are fe
could ask her what if anything she was instrucked to do by others. reporter: chairman darrell issa says if low he wisconsin lerner did nothing wrong and wants to tell the full truth, they doesn t need immunity. jon: we ll bring you to you love as it happens. jenna: we ll follow that story, eric. new polling on obamacare spelling bad news for democrats ahead of the midterm elections. according to brand new polling from usa today and the pew research center, more than 80% of voters say a candidate s position on the health care law will be important factor deciding who get their vote. by two to one, those who rate obamacare as very important, don t like it. this is first major poll we ve seen since the president talked about enrolling 7.1 million under the affordable care act. let s bring in our panel. john mccormick a senior writer for the weekly standard. great to see you both today as we look at some of these new numbers.
continue to grow. jenna: remember americans have until around april 15th to sign up and in the extended if they weren t able to sign up for obamacare for insurance through the obamacare web site. so the new number, the headline today is 7.5 million. we don t have the demographics of that number but that is the news today. people who indicated they tried to sign up but weren t able to do before the deadline were allowed a grace period. that is why secretary sebelius said we could mean 7 1/2 enrollees when all said and done. that is the headline today. eric: a lot more later on in the next hour. meanwhile the verdict for a socialite accused of plotting her ex-husband s murder. coming up we ll look at what is next for this woman, pamela phillips. take a look at these two red dots. what are they? what could they do? what do they mean? well, they could lead to a medical breakthrough they say. technology that could help scientists actually create new human hearts.
it better and give it a soft landing has actually worked. it all comes down to the price, and that s going to be determined later this year. eric: also go ahead, tim. if it s a sicker population as the data suggests it may be, that plays into the question of the obamacare bailout. marco rubio calls it that he s got a bill to get rated of what they call get rid of what they call the risk corridors. youif your profits are small oru lose money, you get a bailout from the taxpayers. we have no idea how much money that s going to be, and if that s if taxpayers find they are sending billions and billions of dollars to these big insurance companies while their premiums are going up all thanks to obamacare, i think that might set a very interesting stage eric: wow. that d be like a blunt baseball bat maybe to some people. all right, a.b. and tim, thank you so much for explaining. seven months to go before the midterms. jenna: right now the house taking on the obama administration s
now on their parents health care plan, so the administration is being very careful to try to politically balance a very dangerous bill for them. eric: well, a.b., what does that mean if they say they re not cutting medicaid advantage now, but let s say they do it over the next couple of years? well, this is really the problem, is the impression americans are getting right now of what obamacare is. that changes week in and week out, and we all know that because it s changed so many times with the extensions, waivers and delays. the administration has offered. we also don t know, the secretary says when we tally those newcomers, that is very critical data. if we find out there s an early estimate from a company called express scripts that some of the newcomers in that population are on specialty medications, they sound riskier and more expensive. once we find out this data of this new population, that s going the determine everything, whether or not this law is affordable and whether