she said, deb business, thanks to obamacare i don't have to ask the pharmacist to score my miss. i used to do that so they would ask me longer. because the doughnut hole is closing i can afford my prescriptions now. eye-opening moment for me because i used that story generally arguing for affordable care act passage. i stood in line at seniors at pharmacy couldn't afford to pay for prescriptions. they had to decide which to fill and which to leave. this is woman i knew well directly benefited from the closure of the medicare prescription drug coverage gap. more clear to me that obamacare and safety nedp programs like medicare are essential maintainingre minimum quality of life for ouro seniors. of course reforms have improved lives of americans of all ages. i have friend an constituents who worried about health care coverage for young adult sons and daughters who after graduation sometimes find it hard to find a job with benefits. in years pas dt insurance companies were free to end coverage for dependent children enrolled in their parents plan at age of 19. thanks to obamacare,

business. >> reporter: deb ventmen founded beau ties in the 1990s with her husband. by the early 2000s they were looking to sell the company. when the daves came calling, their broker thought they wouldn't be the right ones to tight knot with, either. >> it was a flat out no. we had to sell ourselves to the broker, then we had to sell ourselves to bill and deb. >> reporter: bill started selling bow ties out of his house in 1993. sales of roughly 3500 ties in year one grew to more than 40,000 and kennerson who had worked with the county's economic development council, was putting people to work. >> it was very, very important to us that whoever bought this building intended to keep it in vermont. >> i think a lot of other potential people would have not done that. >> reporter: the daves are adding value through web site tweaks and marketing tacks. but customer service remains on hallmark. got an old tie you'd like to convert to a beau tie? they'll do it. precision cutting and stitching are still the main draw. they've got stripes, plaids, and the company logo polka do

i need to be careful i'm sending you rahman on a subway station in one of deb's a series of being caught is business as usual but the thirteen storey shopping center above the station. the tv news may be repaid in the show receipts of explosive than the protest but it appears that many people are still being normal lives. despite the semblance of normalcy the ongoing confusion is having an impact on thailand's economy. one area that is being paid to his torso which accounts for about ten percent of the country's gross domestic product. encaustic international a sweater for airport has seen a drop in the number of travelers while hotels report an increase in cancellations since last month. since november the value of the thai currency the baht has dropped by about five percent and the prices of thai shares have declined by about nine percent in the meantime there was no sign that he did the thai government of prime minister the silat ordered protesters close to finding a solution to the ongoing confrontation there's concern that the current political strife place a series that was on that icon in the