risen from $13,375 to $15,745, $2,000 increase for the average american family, and he s saying you re getting $100 back, ain t it a great deal? jon: that may be why the majority of voters in our latest fox news poll on the topic say they don t like obamacare and don t really understand it either. karl rove, thanks. jenna: there s another issue that s coming up on capitol hill. there s some new information as the house takes up the challenge to rewrite key parts of the 1965 voting rights act. last month you might remember that the supreme court struck down parts of the law deeming them outdated and unconstitutional. now lawmakers are calling for new rules to protect americans at the ballot box. chief political correspondent carl cameron is live in washington on this part of the story. so, carl, the house takes this up today. what happened in the senate yesterday that s important for our viewers to know? reporter: well, everybody on both sides of the chamber, republicans and democrats
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i will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficit. this bill is fully paid for. will reduce or deficit. this. will: help reduce our deficit. enough it s looking like just the opposite is happening. it s a big concern for my next guess. form south carolina senator jimmy demint and the newly minted president of the group, the heritage foundation. thanks for joining us. let s talk numbers. we did a little research and in 2009, when obamacare was sign into law the average family paid 13,375 bucks peree for health nashance. it s up to 15, 745 last year, an 18% increase. well, eric, all of white house read the bill, what part wes could get when they were trying to pass it, knew this would happen. we knew it would cost hundreds of billions of dollars more for
well, this is important. this is why cvs is trying to do this. the law is pushing up the premiums that are being paid by employers and their workers. and, companies as a result are looking for every piece in the law that gives them a chance to try to restrain that growth. in 2009, before the affordable care act the average, average cost of a health insurance for family of four was 13,375. 2010, it jumped to 13,770. a 1.7% increase. that is the year the law got passed. the next year it had a $103 premium increase, jumping to $15,000. last year it was 672, up 4 1/2%. now remember, companies now are paying an average, the companies pay most of this cost. they re paying an average of $11,429 out of that $15,745 that is being, the total cost of the insurance. and remember, the president said, pass the affordable care act and your premiums
of working people are insured. that s a pretty good record, would you say? that s good. bill: that s good. in texas, 75% have insurance. 25% uninsured in texas. all right. only 4% uninsured in massachusetts. the problem with that is that if you re uninsured and you get in trouble, the taxpayer has to pick it up cause you go into the e.r., the emergency room, and they have to treat you. so that s number one. that looks good for romney and you re an honest guy and you would say that looks pretty good for romney. right? yep, that s one standard. bill: okay. that s one standard. the second standard is expense. the national average for families paying for health care, like i do, is $13,375 a year, the national average. massachusetts average, 14,268, only a $500 difference a year. so it seems to me that romney,
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