right now the affordable care act covers free preventative care, free birth control, subsidies for low income clients. we don t know whether these items are in jeopardy? exactly. we don t know what will happen or what items in jeopardy or if all will be in jeopardy. the health and human services, they re the ones that decide what goes under this preventative medicine umbrella. which tests are covered under that. the ones you brought up some examples, other examples vaccinations, men s aneurysm screenings, the list goes on and on. if these get taken away if hhs decides they re not going to cover some of these, patients have to start paying for them or be denied, won t be able to get through them through insurance, it will be cash out-of-pocket. the details are fluid right now. we don t know what s going to happen but some of these could be taken away. dr. torres, thank you so much for that. again, it does remain unclear whether the new administration will fight to rip up obamacare
insure yaps yao liked you can keep it. we didn t say if you have insurance you like but didn t met the minimum standard, you can keep it. but the president said over and over if you like the insurance, you can keep it. so that s the bottom line. if you think about the fact that there s been this growing number of senate democrats who have been pressing for changes to the law, suggests that they re facing the voters in 2014 and have to defend this law and are getting nervous. dean griffin did take the president at is word and is now being told he cannot keep his healthcare plan. he and his wife had and continued to like a plan that dean says cost them $770 a month with 2500 deductible. the new plan on exchange costing nearly $1,300 a month with a $10,000 deductible. dean is on the phone. that is a wakeup call? it s a wakeup call, and actually 12,700 cash out of