report. jenna: the house oversight and government reform committee is hoetding a meeting in georgia where people directly impacted by a law are speaking out about the defects and the family as well. carl is live with more on this part of the story. this is actually the second hearing they held. first was in north carolina last friday. today on this monday, lawmakers are in georgia hearing about the consequences of the botched rollout and the policy consolations as well. thousand californians, 130,000 kentuckyans and nearly 400,000 georgians have received cancellation notices. that s nearly two million americans who have already been affected by obamacare s unnecessary mandates. that s the only four states. it s nearly three times that, closing in on five million to six million people insurance.
prevent it. if we think we re going to get another outbreak from this, that we can come away convinced that the mallahs have given up their intentions, we re dreaming. jenna: then it s in a conversation of a renl he ll change. i hope you ll talk about that as well and i like the idea of the brainwashing technology. too bad it wasn t a real thing. if only we could do it. jenna: if only. i have a few people i would like to use it on. jenna: me, too. thank you as always. take care. bye-bye. jon: is the white house hailing itself nuclear deal to try to push off the front pages all the problems with obamacare? we ll have a fair and balanced look at the media coverage coming up. pp ÷ó
plenty of people in georgia experiencing that and the congressmen are getting an earful. jenna: thank you very much. jon: in the meantime, affordable care act is giving smokers one more reason to quit. remember how the president has often said that your policy can t be cancelled for preexisting conditions under obamacare? well, it turns out that smoking is one preexisting condition that insurers can still charge for more. smokers must pay preel premiums up to 15 ers 15% higher than the non smokers. you know the lower income patients will qualify for the subsidy but here is the important caveat. that subsidy cannot be used to off set the smoker penalty. so some smokers are going to pay up to close to $5,000 more than a non smoker for the same policy. here s some examples.
exactly great. and the cost that most americans actually care about more is the cost themselves, how much they will accept the paper their health care. some will do better in some of the words and some of these employer provided plans will now require workers to cover more of the up front costs than they did before. it kind of depends on the situation, but what it doesn t do is reassure people that you can keep your plan if you like your current plan and the whole point of the affordable care act was to make people feel more secure in their health care and instead what has happened is that more people feel unstable and they feel that the world is more unpredictable with what the future holds, that it is much more unclear and contrary to a larger political point. an issue that really hasn t gotten a lot of attention yet is
program. it s consumer driven health care. it s called the healthy indiana plan. we re working on expand it. jenna: i want to ask you about momentum in general. california says it s picking you mean, better than it was the last few weeks. what does it look like in the state of indiana? does it look like things are improving? look. invariably the website is going to have the bugs worked out and people are going to be able to make their way through the pipeline. my problem with obamacare, going back to the days, you know, that i was serving in congress is that the idea itself is flawed. ordering the american people to buy health insurance, whether they want it or need it or not, causing younger americans essentially to see the costs of their insurance go up dramatically as they re moved into these health care exchanges is just simply a deeply flawed idea. last week there were headlines all over the country about a lowering of the rate of inflation in the health care