is it just one appleby's?e one in times square. >> we can take a horse and buggy and go to the appleby. last time we can do that. >> there you go. >> seema mody, thank you very much. now you'll hear it every day from the democrats. their constant yelling about income in equality and how it is allegedly killing our economy. not so fast. we'll debate the facts about what's holding back wealth in america and how to fix it. next up on kudlow. >>> all right. the new big issue for the obama democrats is income in equality. they think they are going to win it in the november elections, they are wrong. their whole analysis is wrong and more government taxing and spend cigarette wrong. instead it's family break up and poor education that is the real problem. i hope the republican party gets that message out. now, we'll talk, debate. we have democratic strategist and economist mark levine, and c-nbc economist. jimmy why won't democrats acknowledge this family break up instead of tax the rich. >> maybe they are uncomfort

julie appleby of kaiser health news joins me now for an update.come back. >> thank you. >> brown: first, after all that's happened it's probably useful just to remind people what actually happened when this all kicked in? what were the important changes? >> this is a key date because it was a milestone in a way. a lot of the key provision of the health care law kicked in so things like insurers can no longer reject people who have medical conditions. they can no longer charge men or women more than men. they can no longer set annual lifetime dollar limits on coverage. so a lot of these things went into effect. the other dee thing that went into effect yesterday was that starting this year americans who don't have coverage could face a penalty fine if they don't get that coverage by march 31z. >> brown: now the overall incomes that i just referred to, we saw this jump in the last month, last week, actually, how is all that being read? >> the administration had a press conference earlier this week and they touted the fact that 975,000 people signed

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and billionaire investor carl icon says he's increased his stake in appleby another $500 million. that brings his total holdings to $3.6 billion. he also today released an open letter to shareholders repeating his recommendations as the company increased its share repurchasing program. those are some of your top headlines at this hour. >> thanks very much. today at the world economic forum in switzerland, u.s. treasury secretary called on the u.s. congress to reach a deal on the debt ceiling sooner rather than later. our chief washington correspondent has more on the secretary's latest warning. time becoming the enemy in this issue? >> it absolutely is. this team it -- time it feels like there's been confusion as to when the deadline is. the secretary trying to get rid of any of that confusion both here in washington, that letter to congress yesterday, and now on the snowy sidelines of the world economic forum in switzerland. his message is, listen, the deadline here really is late february at the latest. all those extraordinary measures you always hear about, those aren't really

. >> hi, i'm julia appleby with kaiser health news. there's been a lot of talk in the last week or so about whether we know if the folks signing up had insurance previously or not. and i know that's a difficult question to answer. but are any of you tracking that? and do we have a way to track that? and what do we know about that? >> actually, we started having these discussions about a month ago, and we're beginning to discuss with our department of insurance, as well as the insurance carriers that are participating with us, about how we track this. some of our insurance carriers do, and maybe one doesn't. so, we have been thinking about the same thing, because we want to get a clear picture. a lot of people can't afford insurance without the tax credit, and they have absolutely -- i mean, they can just go directly to an agent or to a carrier that they know and they're familiar with and they're not dealing with the exchange. so, we know that the numbers of people that are getting insurance for the first time possibly, or a better rate

as the new web page sessions signal that appleby is in the not too assistant future?ing the company is expected to implement changes to apple tv in the coming month. stay tuned. facebook, mark zuckerberg saying the company has saved more than $1 billion thanks to build open source service. the environmentally friendly initiative blossomed into server designed for ibm, microsoft and intel. keep it right here for complete coverage of facebook's fourth quarter earnings on "after the bell" with liz claman and david asman and 4:00 eastern time. tracy: ashley revealed it before, pope francis on the cover of rolling stone magazine. saying he is the new darling of the left. describes him as the new king of the liberal and rush limbaugh used the phrase pure marxism. he is the pope, he is supposed to be inclusive. he is supposed to be liberal. rolling stone also wrote pope francis is making the quote nick and unnoticeable break facing political issues head vonage presenting a more all-inclusive attitude toward human rights but he's just doing his job working with the times, he'