survey said the reason was obamacare. there are certain regulations, certain benefits that had to be in there. because of that it s driven up the cost of the benefits. 10 essential health benefits along with more than 20,000 pages of regulations, the current increases are for the first policies issued under obamacare in 2014 but insurance companies will soon have to set rates for 2015 as well and an lis fear the increases now mean even bigger increases next year. then they re going to see an announcement that next year s premium is 20% or 50% higher than what they re now paying. they don t talk about saving families $2,500 anymore. we ve seen insurance premiums go up quite a bit over the period in which obamacare started to get implemented. now, even departing secretary of h.h.s., kathleen sebelius, acknowledged to congress that rates would rise next year,
seed your lawn. seed it! anncr: visit scotts.com/goyard for the chance to win a $25,000 backyard makeover. jenna: outgoing secretary kathleen sebelius with new energy to start off the week. gregg: secretary sebelius speaking out this weekend, telling nba meet the press that the time line for the obamacare rollout was, quote, flat out wrong and that finishing out her term with the obama administration was not an option. i said this many times, that
not just signed up and the president is always very careful to use the phrase, signed up which is deliberately deceptive. i think by most accounts. so is she going to burwell going to have to answer the questions? eventually. you ll get to the point where the total package of obamacare and the enrollees and what that means for actual people on the ground, those facts have to come out there. and one would think that this nomination effort through the senate is going to open itself up to a lot of those questions. whether the answers come is another question entirely. gregg: all right. bret baier, host of special report, good to see you. see you, gregg. gregg: does the interview that kathleen sebelius gave in march tell a different story? we ll ask our media panel to weigh in on that coming up this
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gregg: jeff sessions gave her a pretty hard time over the president s budget proposal when she was there to present it. this is not going to be a skate. no. it s not. she s well respected up there but you re right. last time she was on capitol hill, it was not a great hearing appearance for her and that back and forth with senator jeff sessions and it was many republicans and others looking at it said it was pretty evasive so the question is whether republicans will get some of the answers that they seek about how this pool of enrollees for obamacare, how it breaks down, how many young people there are and whether insurance companies will have to recalculate those premiums for everybody before the fall. gregg: sebelius never answered the question about how many of these were previously uninsured, how many are young people, how many of these are enrolled and