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Congress, why not at thanksgiving dinner? look, what i would say, the affordable care act, it requires insurance plans to cover a really significant number of benefits. these are some things that aren t covered now in a lot of individual market plans. such as ma teternity care, 1/3 plans don t cover. i think the more accurate critique of obama care. one you do see happening is that it requires people to pay more, and also get more. it is really hard to see where an are gaumegument about peopleg less comes in. i would add, paying more. people will be getting subsidies to pay higher premiums. bit of a balancing act. as crystal points out. this is a great opportunity to say, okay, where in the affordable care act does it out out does it cut the benefits. you may get into death panel territory. easy to shoot down. there are not death panels in the affordable care act. hard to find basis in the affordable care act, there are less benefits. a conservative rallying point. ....
President was correct. if you like what you have, you can keep it. the plans were changed so now they have to comply with the new law? sebelius: they can choose to be grandfathered and keep the same plan with means the same benefits and the regulation allows insurance companies to charge medical inflation plus the trendline so they did not have to charge the same price, they could increase it, increase co-pay, coinsurance. what they cannot do is cancel benefits that the policyholder relied on. they could not disadvantage the policyholder. if the plan is in effect, absolutely it is still in effect. some of the millions of letters we re hearing about are probably because the plans change. sebelius: absolutely be at end of individual market plans change every year. even in a small business market that happens. these plans are not allowed now because they re completely inaccurate. they do not offer the minimum essential benefits. is that correct? ....
Push the plan that they have been negotiating largely in secret for the past few weeks. so, i do think that there is bipartisan consensus that the health care system needs to be fixed. particularly those we refer to them as obamacare plans. those individual market plans that have gotten so expensive for people to buy. and i do think people want to fix that. but at this point, it does not look like that is going to be the immediate political reality here. republican leaders are going to work, again, behind closed doors and try to get an agreement by the end of the week that they can then tend off to the congressional budget office so that we can do this whole rodeo, again, after they come back from the july 4th recess. a lot of variables in the works between then and now. a risk to delay this vote. we ll see what these republican senators hear from their constituents as they re back home after the holiday. i know you spoke with senator corker a moment ago. did he say anything interest ....